Been to a few sled pulls

[ford-harto3457]

Originally Posted by ford-harto3457 i see there is a video on youtube of a guy pulling with the 4.9l. my 150 has a 4.9 and is bored over with a cam and going after a 4 barrel intake set up and header, its a pretty stought little engine. if set up right could a guy stand a chance on the track with the bigger gasers and diesels? its also 4wd with 31x10.5x15 mud kings, air the tires down and run it first gear 4hi?

[monsterbaby]

Originally Posted by 150ford

Well an update. Went to a muddrag competition today. That was exciting. Plenty off Fords pulling here. I was really impresed with a flarside 79 Ford truck. It really kicked ass an left a lot off Chevies in the dust. I talked to some off the cometitors running those Ford mudraggers. One kid I talked to.He was pretty cocky. He run an older 76 Ford with a bored out 460 with a high performance cam. Give it that rumpity rump sound. He left a lot off trucks in the back with that truck. He was telling me the Chevy guys really hate itwhen he wins. Then there was this one kid in this Chevy who was just a plain pain if you know what I mean. This guys with this Ford beats him. Claimed he got a slow start an the race was unfair. So they did it again. Can you imagine that. Oooh the guy in the Ford was hot when he had to do it again. I thought there would be a fight. Man I hate that . My version is if you cant play fair get out off the sport. What a prick. Ugg it ruins for everybody. When Im in any sport for competition. I am a friend first an competitor second.We compete but we are also friends End off discussion. In this sport friends are way better then enemies. You might need help an somebody will help you. Other then this incident it was agreat muddrag. Its very addicting. Sorry for the long post. Just sharing some things I did today.

Mud drags are a whole different ball game from pulls, I built a pro-modified mud drag truck (gutted ranger body on a shortened F150 frame, with ladder bar coilover suspension and a stroker big block at 927hp) I built the truck to run modified class but also ran outlaw/open and won a LOT and got accused of cheating all the time cause the Chev guys couldn't beleive I wasn't running nitrous and ran just as fast in modified as I did in outlaw. it didn't take long for them to figure out that I was doing all on motor and only one guy kept complaining. But I can tell you if you went and complained about a late start were I race they would laugh you off the place and if you kept crying kick you off the property. Thats racing.

As to the pulling, I tried it last year with my F250 for the first time ever (I had never hooked with any truck at all) took 3rd in the local class (basically run what ya brung) got beat by a cummins in first and a 6.0 took second. I did mess up and not get enough wheel speed and momentum and I think I would have actually gave the 6.0 a serious run and possibly even the dodge (I had 296ft, 302, and 305 where the others, this track was setup at 320)

I also drag race my F250 on pavement and beat the heck out of ALL the gas trucks (the guys with the dodge SRT trucks get really pissed being beat by a diesel) best time is a 9.5 at 70mph 1/8th mile and I regularly beat the duramax's

But yeah the cummins really does lend itself to modifications a lot easier, probably just going to relegate my truck back to tow duties and race a car this year.

[Redneck-Cowboy]

I've tried a couple times w/ my 300, it's bored .060"over, headers, cam, intake, 4 barrel, chevy rockers, etc. I haven't been able to "hook up" on our local track so I've never got a good idea of how close it come with the V-8's, it diffinetly didn't run outta power even with trying to baby it some to get it to hook up, when it was pulling on it the truck still held about 3,800rpms. Working on my real pulling truck this year, I'm thinking next winter I'll get a straight dana 44 under it and something other then mud tires and try it again next summer.