Drag Racing Tech - 346 goes 9's!!!

congrats to jay johnson he went 9.81 @ 134
at slp customer apreciation day today.

congrats jay

details....details.....

come on guys tell us more <img border="0" alt="[driving]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_driving3.gif" />

ok sorry guys,

jay will have to post exact details, but it is a stock crank, forged rods and pistons. a mild heads and cam best i remember, powerglide with a 4000 stall and a pretty healthy shot. it was very cold today and most cars were running like shit. i even grenaded my rear end <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="gr_sad.gif" />

Just a bit of info.

I am running a JE piston, stock crank and STOCK RODS!

I wish to heck that I put in a forged rod now, but
I firmly belived that I could consistantly put 550rwhp
on the stock rods if they were worked and if I could
keep the knock out of the motor.

So far my faith in the stock rod has come through.

Almost everyone said, a stock rod wouldn't last into
the low-10's. I wanted to find out(and save some
money) in this build-up.

When I put the motor together, I had a machine
shop resize and stress relieve the stock rods.
The rods were in my last motor(heads/cam/nitrous)
and they had 36k miles before I pulled that one
apart and re-used the rods in the current motor.

Stock rods ran 9.81!


Jay Johnson

I woudlnt listen to anyone that told you LS1 rods wont live. They are pretty badass rods. I know of stock LT1 rods that have seen bottom tens an dthe LS1 are made out of better stuff ANDF have cracked caps

jay, hell of a job at SLP, i never got a chance to meet u, I was with joseph and TSP down there.

I gotta ask, how was losing a t-top on the top end???