Mavn

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We have one . Ha

panda240ss

i must know the secrets!

Mavn

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Called having a good tuner that knows how to keep them alive.

My gen 3 5.3 makes little over 700 wheel right now and its a conservative tune on 20#

panda240ss

wahhhhhhhhhh

ima have to look for these gypsi you speak of

truckdoug

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look up cesar enriquez on youtube. like every video is a 800+ rwhp 4.8 pickup truck.

i can only speculate from some of the hints he drops now and then but it appears he keeps the timing very mellow until after peak torque and then spins them to 8k maybe higher.

ddnspider

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They also run almost everything exclusively on E, at least the stuff I've asked about in the dyno section thats been posted.

truckdoug

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well yeah i kinda thought corn or race gas was a given past like 600

ddnspider

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I feel like the tuning window is so large with E that if you blow it up at less than 1000hp you shouldn't be tuning it

panda240ss

I am planning on running only e since a station is down the street from my house lol.

truckdoug

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man, these are the days. i remember when 500 hp was a lot and it took 10 grand to get it lol

ddnspider

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Honestly I think a large part of it is understanding how to tune them now. Everyone paid 10k cause they threw high dollar parts thinking it was needed to keep them alive....and still blew them up.

Tuskyz28

Car Craft just put together a 793 hp motor using a 5.3 with ported 706 casting heads and a 163 dollar turbo from ebay. Cam from Brian Tooley... i can provide a link if anyone is interested.

ddnspider

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Us boosted folk have seen it. You NA guys aren't used to making that much power for so cheaply

LilJayV10

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ahh yes. good fuel, soft timing at peak TQ will keep an engine alive for a looong time.

low piston speed+high cylinder pressure=broke ****

LilJayV10

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**** you know that's right. We spend $3000+ on a set of heads hoping to pick up 30 numbers over ported stock heads.....and don't even get me started on the intakes...

Well not me, my **** is slow.

ddnspider

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Quoted for truth!

Game ova

I remember clearly, back in '96, the fast guy in town was running high 9s...around 140 or so (468 with a nice sized solid roller and a pro shot fogger), and he was one to be feared. The guy had that car since high school (81 berlinetta) and over the years stepped up to a 632 mountain motor, still on the gas. He went from being the man, to everyone taking turns running out of his life. This was being done by unassuming f bodies, and many other full weight, garden variety type cars with small CI motors, accompanied by snails under the hood. As it is now, to be half way respectable, you need an 8 second car that traps at least 170 smh.

Mavn

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Winner winner . Cesar Is my Tuner and were in the same shop together .

truckdoug

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haha its all making sense now!

3 window

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What’s considered soft timing?