What you say? Well while tinkering the other day, I was examining the gov contact with the plate. A little history....I started with a 0 plate and the arm wouldn't contact it, so I moved it a ways fwd to get contact, but I had to move it too far for my liking. Not wanting to try and adjust the arm in the truck, I decided to jump on the new fangled 100 plate bandwagon. So I made one up and it took a lot of fiddling with the ramp design before I got it where I liked it. Having the ramp on the bottom allowed me to move it forward some and still let the arm contact it. Any way, I was noticing yesterday that the geometry of the arm wasn't real good having to reach that far out to the plate. Kind of took it off its centerline. I wanted to come up with a plate that would bring the arm back closer to a stock position, as it would ride a plate placed in that stock position. So I took my old 0 plate and went to the mill. After seeing another members modification to a 100 plate I got an idea to make one similair but a little different. I milled into the plate at the bottom forming a ramp, much like a 10 or 100, but starting at a 0's face. I milled inward, not too deep to get to the rivets, and then brought that line straight up for about 3/8 inch. At that point I ramped back out to the 0's face gradually until I reached the top of the plate. With this plate, I can run it close to stock, leaving the arm close to stock position. Because of the deep cut in the face above the ramp, it fuels like a 100 fwd quite a ways. The ramp on top may defuel a little at high rpm when I get the 4K kit, but I'll deal with that then. The results were terrific, have all of the "felt" power and then some, a crisper off idle, and 65 mph egt's are at 600 with 5 psi boost. The 300's will smoke some under full power, so I know I am fueling good when I want it. Anyway, just food for thought on big plates in little pumps. And I will give credit to the fellow that sparked my thought, though for the life of me can't find the thread again to remember his name.....any way, thx.

Chris

 

Chris,

I jumped on that bandwagon myself.
I put a small step at the bottom for ease of contact on the stock plate. Then, I went in to the plate about 2/3 of the way to the rivet area. Just as you did I went straight up about 2/3 of the way. From there I ran a diagonal line back to the stock top of the plate area.
I seemed to be on the right track with my first attempt as well. Now I'm anxious for the second try.

How did your plate perform?
I did that 0- 10 lbs. test. dropped to 15 mph, 3 seconds
0-60 test about 6 seconds.
brake tq test was a little quicker.

I plan one more plate as soon as I dyno this one & the #4 together.

Chris PM me about all this, if you have time.

Thanks,
Wayne

 

Sounds like my plate to the tee, I love mine so far. Check out this thread as well for an interesting read....

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...968#post605968

I'll be PMing you

Chris