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Jul 17, 2019 | 06:23 AM

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You should open a shop. You would put the big guys out of business.

We have one . Ha

Jul 17, 2019 | 09:18 AM

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We have multiple gen 3 motors over 900 wheel in 4600lb trucks running 9s

i must know the secrets!

Jul 17, 2019 | 09:27 AM

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i must know the secrets!

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#

Jul 17, 2019 | 09:54 AM

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wahhhhhhhhhh

ima have to look for these gypsi you speak of

Jul 17, 2019 | 01:59 PM

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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.

Jul 17, 2019 | 02:26 PM

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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.

Jul 17, 2019 | 02:36 PM

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

Jul 17, 2019 | 02:37 PM

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

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

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Jul 17, 2019 | 04:35 PM

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

Jul 17, 2019 | 06:29 PM

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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

Jul 17, 2019 | 07:28 PM

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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

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.

Jul 17, 2019 | 07:54 PM

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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.

Jul 17, 2019 | 08:24 PM

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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.

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

Jul 17, 2019 | 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by truckdoug

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.

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 ****

Jul 17, 2019 | 08:41 PM

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

**** 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.

Jul 17, 2019 | 08:48 PM

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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.

Quoted for truth!

Jul 17, 2019 | 11:06 PM

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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

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.