How to make a c-16 into a pulling engine

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  1. SL3406

    SL3406 Medium Load Member

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  3. sailboatjim

    sailboatjim Light Load Member

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    Are you talking about the trucks that leave from a dead stop (drag race style start) pulling a flatbed load of lumber or something like that where they race to the top of the hill?

    If that's the case, I would build a 1500 hp engine and fix the chassis so that it's not giving up about 300 of those horses twisting that frame.

    I've drag raced most of my life and I can tell you that twisting frame like that is wasting a lot of power.

    I would spend a lot of my time with the motor and tranny out of the truck boxing the frame and then stiffening it after its boxed with tubing. I'm guessing to that your going to have to turn it more than 3500 rpms but maybe not. I would have figure at least 6000 rpm.
     
  4. T800H

    T800H Medium Load Member

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    wow, this site hasn't been this exiting in a long time, great.
     
  5. Cat sdp

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    [video=youtube_share;Jxv2hOlFav4]http://youtu.be/Jxv2hOlFav4[/video]



    That's racing.....
     
  6. DDS

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    B class has turbo size limit and oem intercooler rules, that is the hardest part of making the hp for that class. Lack of air.....pm me if you need more info on rules.
     
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  7. SmokinCAT

    SmokinCAT Road Train Member

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    Curious what the turbo limit is?
     
  8. x#1

    x#1 Road Train Member

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    wow that black smoke rolling was beautiful.
     
  9. sailboatjim

    sailboatjim Light Load Member

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    I see a lot of wasted power.
     
  10. Oscar the KW

    Oscar the KW Going Tarpless

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    This isn't a forum dedicated to off road pulling trucks, 99% of the membership here is involved in interstate commerce. Bottom line is the owner of TTR didn't want to risk the site being shutdown, and I can't say that I blame him. It sucks, the performance mods that we use to talk about here is the reason that I joined TTR.
     
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    we can learn how to make a bomb on the internet but cant learn how to take a egr off
     
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