1966 C10 Project Truck

[Blue666(2)]

Do you have an estimate of how much anti squat gain is made by flipping trailing arm mount brackets? For the costs of grade 8 bolts and a few grinder discs, that could be one of the best low cost suspension upgrades ever.

I love that your truck is ready to get down & dirty on the road & no worries about perfect paint/chrome. Great truck & build thread.

[scoot_mcgrute]

Originally Posted by Blue666(2)

Do you have an estimate of how much anti squat gain is made by flipping trailing arm mount brackets? For the costs of grade 8 bolts and a few grinder discs, that could be one of the best low cost suspension upgrades ever.

I love that your truck is ready to get down & dirty on the road & no worries about perfect paint/chrome. Great truck & build thread.

Thanks man, I appreciate it! I'm not sure on actual numbers but it really helped my corner exit traction. Definitely a great low cost upgrade!

My first autocross of the year was last weekend, I loaded the truck on the trailer without rear rotors on it, got those by lunch on Friday, headed South to my buddy's house in Eugene, installed the rotors and bled the brakes Friday night. Saturday, showed up and immediately failed tech due to my wheel studs being too short. I was bummed but there was a Firestone right next to the track that helped me out to get everything together and able to run with my group . I did terrible on Saturday, the truck was pushing really bad and I was having a hard time figuring it out. I almost didn't go back on Sunday but at the last minute decided to go and increase the rear tire pressure to see if that would help. It did and minus the long waiting time to get to run, I had a really good time. I got my cousin to take a break from homework and ride with me for a couple laps, he had a great time! I'm pleased with the old girl but it needs some more work before I'm happy with it again

[Pinchecharlie]

Holly crap your a badas@! You had helped me before and I appreciate it and your truck is awsome Just curious now that the racing bug has caught ya what your plan s are for the suspension? See that you have adopted the no limit philosophy a bit which is cool. Are you gonna drop member it ? Raise the rear rails? Hope your doing good in all life's adventures and Can t wait to see what's next!

[scoot_mcgrute]

Originally Posted by Pinchecharlie

Holly crap your a badas@! You had helped me before and I appreciate it and your truck is awsome Just curious now that the racing bug has caught ya what your plan s are for the suspension? See that you have adopted the no limit philosophy a bit which is cool. Are you gonna drop member it ? Raise the rear rails? Hope your doing good in all life's adventures and Can t wait to see what's next!

Thanks man! I feel that I have hit the upper limit of the suspension already this year; I still have to install the taller balljoints and do the caster mod to the front. I really want to get a set of arms on the front and go coilovers all around but that will have to wait for a little while. I think I will be happy with the rear suspension when I can get my rear sway bar back on, I'm hoping to tackle that during lunch tomorrow.

I was able to get the truck on the dyno at work for some tuning and I'm very happy with the results. Baseline was 257 at the tires but running super rich. Our tuner changed the MAF tables from the LS1 to the OEM truck tables and picked up 18 wheel horsepower and after some time playing with the fuel tables, the final numbers were 281HP and 310 ftlbs. Not too bad for a junkyard NA 5.3!







And the video of the final pull. I need to figure out the smoking issue but I think the LS6 valley cover will help that out a little bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUxMAkkeqI

Hoping to hit up and autocross this weekend for some more seat time!