well if i can find a power steering high pressure hose i will be there but i dont know if i can find one in time i just had to put a new water pump and steering box in....only thing holding me back is this stupid old rusty line

 

I'm 50/50 about going, a few friends just backed out. Down to 1 truck now. I also don't like that i have to drive around with the baby h1c on there...its just not the same.

 

you can buy the high pressure one at Advance auto or autozone , thats what i did

 

i got one but it didnt get in till after 5 and i just couldnt make it....

 

So how was it?

 

The pulls and whole event was nice, an 89 1st GEN pulled and went about 175-200 ft (could tell it was stock or maybe minimal mods). 3rd GEN Dodge won the fastest truck at the Buck by beating out a Duramax by I think it was only 2-3 ft. That was really exciting to watch as the first time they raced it was so close they did it a 2nd time and that's when the quad cab/shortbed Dodge won (definitely a quick common-rail Cummins). DTR turnout wasn't that great I think it was only 4-5 guys. My buddy and I came, Brandon, and I think two guys from Maryland who I recognized but didn't know their names. Oh well, we can look forward to Fall Brawl now.

Sal

 

that 89 truck was stock i was down getting some overpriced food and he was sitting there waiting to pull and i leaned over the fence and asked him if it was stock and he gave me thumbs up and said yea.

i could tell it was stock as soon as he left, it was at about 2300 rpm lol

 

VE's are def low rpm pumps when stock, my buddy's boat has a 4bt with a ve and it runs 2300. gonna put a 3200 rpm spring in it soon tho.

as for me, i am an RPM freak. Sat night at the buck I left the line at 5100 rpms, and held right at 4k all the way til it pulled me down and spun out.

 

I bet your the kind of guy that feels life just begins at 5000 rpms.

 

Ya, the VE's do defuel low but not that low more than likley was not getting full throttle travle.


Wish I could have made it, sucks i missed the last one. Its going to be a long time untill the next one.

 

Life begins at around 3500 for me...thats where the charger starts to light. Anything less than that is like driving a ford.

I dig the 1st gens tho...I hope to one day build a 1st gen puller from the ground up, or put a 1st gen body on a 2nd gen chassis.

 

Hahahaha 3500 mine has its tongue sticking out through the grill before then lol.

 

yeah i'm going to have to say that mine starts spewing green liquid around then and lifting the head too.