3.42 open diff. Gonna swap to 3.90/truetrac eventually, to still keep it daily friendly
Also mpg went up from 16 to 18 haha
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Also mpg went up from 16 to 18 haha
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Hell 3.42s with a posi would still be fun. One of our old shop trucks at my last job was a 5.3 RCSB with 3.73s and a G80. Fun ass little truck, thing would roll out
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For sure, I just figure while I'm in there I might as well throw a fresh set of gears in since its only $200 more.
But for now I'm happy and I'm just gonna drive it as is.
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Considering selling the racetruck because I've always wanted a F body trans am. But not getting any interest in the truck so far so we'll see I guess.
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Racetruck not for sale anymore. No reasonable offers. The build continues. Got some things on the way.
Also I went to the track a couple weeks ago.
Keep in mind no weight reduction at all, full weight, with subs under the back seat, and a lil baby 4.8L under the hood.
Truck went 13.87@95.4mph. I'm real happy with that.
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Also I went to the track a couple weeks ago.
Keep in mind no weight reduction at all, full weight, with subs under the back seat, and a lil baby 4.8L under the hood.
Truck went 13.87@95.4mph. I'm real happy with that.
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That's awesome for a full weight 4.8 EC. Any plans for built motor or boost in the near future?
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Yes actually. Here soon I'm swapping to a boost cam, then gonna do 15s on the rear, fuel pump, 4l80e with smaller converter, and step down to 3.73 gears, and then turbo the 4.8. Looking for 600-700
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So I did pick up a set of the 1320 wheels brake conversion brackets. Then I searched long and hard for drilled/slotted or dimpled/slotted rotors for a early 90s K1500 reg cab light duty to run with those brackets (all people ever use are the stock smooth rotors but I wanted to match my fronts). After a few days I came across Brakeperformance.com. They have rotors in Stock and they machine and drill them in house and then ship them out, and you can get them in black zinc or silver zinc coated. The price was reasonable too at $170 for the set with ceramic pads. I bought acdelco calipers.
Also I'm not big on weight reduction and don't really do much of it, but I since the 1320 setup does not retain the parking brake (and nbs rear disc truck parking brakes never work anyway), I removed the brackets from the rear end, the shoes, the cable, cable brackets, parking brake pedal, release latch, etc. All of that combined and including the lighter rotors and caliper, the truck is about 100lbs lighter easily. The pedal assembly alone weighs about 20-25lbs and the cables another 20ish.
So now I can fit 15s, I'll be buying the same wheels I already have in 15s, but currently I'm waiting on someone to buy my wheels.
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Also I'm not big on weight reduction and don't really do much of it, but I since the 1320 setup does not retain the parking brake (and nbs rear disc truck parking brakes never work anyway), I removed the brackets from the rear end, the shoes, the cable, cable brackets, parking brake pedal, release latch, etc. All of that combined and including the lighter rotors and caliper, the truck is about 100lbs lighter easily. The pedal assembly alone weighs about 20-25lbs and the cables another 20ish.
So now I can fit 15s, I'll be buying the same wheels I already have in 15s, but currently I'm waiting on someone to buy my wheels.
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