Bruce Smith
Life begins at 800 rpm's
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2010
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- 134
Some may have seen this truck at a event or two last year but its in the middle of a make over mechanicly right now and should be a very fast truck here soon. I will have pleanty of pictures to follow the build. For no more than it was it ran pretty good as it was with very little fuel and air, 7.20's 1/8 and 11.30's 1/4; it should be at a complete diff. level here in a few weeks when everything is done. Little overview of the truck. its a 91 short bed chevy that myself and my brother in law stock600 or Ryan backhalved, narrowed the frame rails and ladder bar'ed and coil overed basicly copied his Black Truck that worked sooo well.
Basicly is a gutted down race weight drag only truck now but its nearly 100% new though out now. Its got new big 33x15 Hossiers tucked under it spun by a 9" ford rear fitted by all new Strange internals incuding thier Nodular iron center support and 35 spline axles, HD rear brakes for ease of spooling the new twin chargers. Truck is built around Pro Street rules and weighs in at thier min. number of 4500#, prob. a bit more now with the additional turbo and all new piping though. I had a freash billet 518a tranny built with all trick internals including the best shafts and also a super Art Carr 13" custom stalled convertor and full manual valve body.
Im in the middle now of freshing the 12v for it and tons of upgrades for this next season. I went with as much of a copy as I could of what Ryan ran in his Altered that worked so well, we blueprinted the bottom end and went back together with new fastners, bearings, rings and pistons. Billet freeze plugs and new sfi flexplate as well. The head got surfaced big stainless steel int. valves and a killer port job this thing should move some air! Ryan did me a camshaft and I purchased a bolt on retainer for it. Im putting the head back on this time around with upgraded ARP 625's rather than the 2000's because we seen them work so well on the Altered. 3 nozzle water injection system now along with a custom 2 stage nitrous setup also in the works.
On to the new air, I ran it before with a box stock 66mm single and it spooled well and ran good but I knew with all the new fuel that more air was badly needed so it get sent to HTT for a rework 66/71/13ss and I hung a Forced Induction S480 under it with race cover along with a big 60mm ext gate and a HTT 3 piece manifold. All the piping is ceramic coated and looks killer, I hope it runs as well as it looks. I gave Ryan the pump and let him do his tricks to it to give me max fuel from it along with a much bigger set of injectors from Weston, it should fuel hard now.
Im so curious as to how the trucks going to perform now, I think its a very nice set up and will be fast. My big problem is work in the past has been great giving me pleanty extra money to build the truck as I wanted to and now its fallen off to the point where Im worried if Im even going to have a job, Im thinking of selling the truck but dont really want to. Ive put a lot of money into it and really the only thing left is the paint job. Im curious if there'd be any serious interest in this truck as it really dont look like Im going to be secure enough to travel around the country and compete like I was planning on. Selling it makes the most since money wise to me right now with things like they are and a wife a 3 kids. Im scared to add up what Ive really put into this truck but I think Id accept a offer somewhere around 18/19k; that dont touch what it cost to build a truck at this level.
For those of you that want a competitive Pro Street truck for next season and dont have the ability, money, or time to build one this would be a cool deal and get me out of a bind at the same time. I'll be posting pictures when I can, and feel free to call me and ask questions about it as well. 214-532-1745 Thanks, Bruce Smith
Basicly is a gutted down race weight drag only truck now but its nearly 100% new though out now. Its got new big 33x15 Hossiers tucked under it spun by a 9" ford rear fitted by all new Strange internals incuding thier Nodular iron center support and 35 spline axles, HD rear brakes for ease of spooling the new twin chargers. Truck is built around Pro Street rules and weighs in at thier min. number of 4500#, prob. a bit more now with the additional turbo and all new piping though. I had a freash billet 518a tranny built with all trick internals including the best shafts and also a super Art Carr 13" custom stalled convertor and full manual valve body.
Im in the middle now of freshing the 12v for it and tons of upgrades for this next season. I went with as much of a copy as I could of what Ryan ran in his Altered that worked so well, we blueprinted the bottom end and went back together with new fastners, bearings, rings and pistons. Billet freeze plugs and new sfi flexplate as well. The head got surfaced big stainless steel int. valves and a killer port job this thing should move some air! Ryan did me a camshaft and I purchased a bolt on retainer for it. Im putting the head back on this time around with upgraded ARP 625's rather than the 2000's because we seen them work so well on the Altered. 3 nozzle water injection system now along with a custom 2 stage nitrous setup also in the works.
On to the new air, I ran it before with a box stock 66mm single and it spooled well and ran good but I knew with all the new fuel that more air was badly needed so it get sent to HTT for a rework 66/71/13ss and I hung a Forced Induction S480 under it with race cover along with a big 60mm ext gate and a HTT 3 piece manifold. All the piping is ceramic coated and looks killer, I hope it runs as well as it looks. I gave Ryan the pump and let him do his tricks to it to give me max fuel from it along with a much bigger set of injectors from Weston, it should fuel hard now.
Im so curious as to how the trucks going to perform now, I think its a very nice set up and will be fast. My big problem is work in the past has been great giving me pleanty extra money to build the truck as I wanted to and now its fallen off to the point where Im worried if Im even going to have a job, Im thinking of selling the truck but dont really want to. Ive put a lot of money into it and really the only thing left is the paint job. Im curious if there'd be any serious interest in this truck as it really dont look like Im going to be secure enough to travel around the country and compete like I was planning on. Selling it makes the most since money wise to me right now with things like they are and a wife a 3 kids. Im scared to add up what Ive really put into this truck but I think Id accept a offer somewhere around 18/19k; that dont touch what it cost to build a truck at this level.
For those of you that want a competitive Pro Street truck for next season and dont have the ability, money, or time to build one this would be a cool deal and get me out of a bind at the same time. I'll be posting pictures when I can, and feel free to call me and ask questions about it as well. 214-532-1745 Thanks, Bruce Smith
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