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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
Sam, how does it ride?
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
with my stock ls1, 4.10's, posi, and 6 speed I can break it loose it 1-3 and chirp hard going into 4 and 5.
I pleed the 5th for the speeds at which I shift haha |
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
Cajun, I was battling with the idea of going LS1 and putting a couple bolt ons, but got too good of a deal on a fully built 327. Was that with your 20x8s? How do you suppose it would grab with a 15 or 16x10 with street slick?
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
It's installed in the wrong end!!
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
stroked 396 BBC about 500 ft/pounds of torque.
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Location: Lakes Region NH
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
How much horsepower? Well, I could probably pull three horses with the right trailer if it had electric brakes.
I've got a mild 302 with a 350/327 cam and small heads. I'm lucky if it's near 270 at the wheels. I disagree with the idea that you can't have too much power. This truck is mostly stock and it already has more go than stop, and more push than turn. Yeah, I built a lot of vehicles like that when I was a kid. But these days I realize luck probably kept me alive more often than skill. Keep the power level appropriate for the chassis and the area you're driving. |
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Location: Madison, WI
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
I just picked up a LQ4 yesterday and plan on giving it a mild stroke to 408 depending if it needs boring. The LS motors have a lot of interchange parts. I'll put on L92 heads and a LS3 intake with the MSD Atomic LS EFI system to get rid of the rats nest of wiring harness. Behind it will be a 4L80 and Dana 60. I'll be towing a Jeep over the mountains and want to have enough power. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. At least to my wife.
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
I know I will have more horsepower than I need. Running an automatic will help keep the tires on it. The big difference will be the modern EFI. We'll be living at 7000 feet starting next spring. I'll be towing from 0 to 10,000 feet so the extra power will be nice. Hopefully the 4L80 will be able to hold together.
The price on the LS truck motors is about the same no matter what the size except for the lone big block. For $800 it was hard to pass up on a complete 6.0 vs. the smaller sizes that sell for the same amount or more. Posted via Mobile Device |
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
Mine has one gazillion horsepower. Makes it go plenty fast enough for me.
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
Okay, maybe it 10 gazillion, I forget.
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
250 inliner bored .040, healthy cam, milled head, rechambered, lump ported, Z28 dual springs, 202 intakes, balenced etc running a heated clifford 6=8 with a Holly 390, stoveboltengines cast headers into 2.5 inch all the way out. MSD HEI with 10mm Live wires a K&N filter and it gets 20 mpg highway, has enough torque to pull our camp trailer and supposd to be a 200 hp combination wich is enough for me .
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330 bhp from a crate 350........but with an open diff, it does this most of the time
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
My 6000# Avalanche has a 5.3L w 4L60E, GearVendors & 4.10 gears - Plenty of GO
My 4500# SSR has a 5.3L w 4L60E & 4.10 gears - even more GO My 3500# 57 GMC has a 5.3L 4L60E, GearVendors & 4.11 Gears - Way MORE GO if it hooks when I get it on the road. What I'm saying is power to weight ratio and traction are key to how much is to much.
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
I have no idea what mine would dyno at but it is a 350 with flat top pistons, camel hump 2.02 valve heads and a decent cam. 700R4 tranny and 3.73 gear with 29x15.5 tires. Hooks up great with the 4 link. Plenty of power for the street and cruises down the highway all day long with no issues. Also does a pretty good burn out but tires ar just too expensive for that.
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
As far as power, with the stock 5.3 (at the time) and a smallish turbo, my '69 C10 was ~500 rwhp judging by trap speed.
More than enough to hang with and beat "supercars", and still drive to work. The viper edged me out this run (although I was reeling him in) but I got him later that night. My setup in the blazer will be around 800 rear wheel hp. Hooking that one up will be more of a challenge.
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
Traction is key to Power
My 4200# 56 GMC Suburban Pick up w 389 Ponco & 4 speed Hydramatic w 3.55 open Diff just smokes the 1 tire and goes no where, All that power and no go. Once rolling torque does all the work at lower rpm in this truck. Besides anything over 70 MPH is just too noisy and sucks fuel. Damm, I must be getting old ![]()
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
My 383 motor is around 480-500hp. Should be fun on airbags & 4 link and skinny 245 tyres and a LSD ( positrack )
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
(insert eye roll here)
(insert dyno sheet here)
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
hahaha
That is on a engine dyno* once its in the truck i will get some real numbers at the wheels, but i have paper and a video so i will upload it when i can.
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
What does a Stock 1959 GMC 100 have ?
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Re: how much horsepower does your truck have
I've got most of the pieces for a .040 over 396 that was going in the 48 but it will get the 68 292 with not a whole lot of horsepower.
My 57 Panel had a 327 with 12.5 Jahn's Pistons, Engle solid lifter cam and 202 heads with a Corvette Dual 4 setup on it and it would pull the front wheels when launched hard but I got tired of constantly having to work to keep it tuned to the max. I have no idea of the horse power but it would stay with a 750 Honda bike for a city block in a street race. These days I am more interested in having the 48 set up as a reacher that can burn up highways for hours on end to far flung places.
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