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Drag Truck - The Danger Ranger


ksack

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you dont like the hp tuners products?
I'm not sure I understand the question. My tuner does use HP Tuners since we are running through an NGauge. I have nothing to do with the actual tuning side of it other than sending the datalogs to him.
 


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New video is up


Below is the progress pic from the end of today. Just need to disconnect trans harness, trans mounts, and motor mounts and it will be ready to come up.

 

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Hey everyone. Motor and trans were pulled Sunday so I can do cams and converter. It also gives me the opportunity to clean up the engine bay. Progress will be slow the next few months since I had knee surgery today. All is well but it will be some time before I'm able to work on the truck without hurting my recovery.

 

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take your time....not worth the damage to your body.


lift off inner/core is the only way to go with these critters.
 

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have you been in contact with eric brooks at all? or any of the guys at hotwires?
 

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My truck's sponsor, Auto Mafia Racing, crushed the 3.7 sealed motor record by a half-second over the weekend at Cleetus and Cars. The motor itself has 150k miles on it. He is the go-to guy for anything 3.7 and has competitive pricing on almost all brands of performance parts Support the small guy and tell him ksack sent you.
 

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i love the cyclones.
 

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that is some epic shit.....150k motor taking that level of abuse is beyond the pale.
 

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Can't wait to see this running.
 

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Can't wait to see this running.

watch that whole video he posted.

9 second 150k mile sealed 3.7.......

thats some epic stuff. these v6 things are worthy.
 

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First time I've run across the term "sealed motor". What does it mean? I'm guessing it means nothing done to a stock motor....
 

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yes.....but, depends on format. there are spec engines as well.....and the old claimer shit we used to do waaayyy back.


ta racing....clone classes ect...
 

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First time I've run across the term "sealed motor". What does it mean? I'm guessing it means nothing done to a stock motor....
Nothing done internally. No forged internals, no cams or upgrade heads or anything like that.
 

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Hey friends I picked up a pit bike yesterday! Please consider liking and subscribing to help my videos reach more people.

 

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Painted the pit bike and ran into some engine issues
 

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