Been to a few sled pulls
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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?
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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 *** 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 *****. 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.
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.
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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.
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