Muscle Trucks?

[quickd100]

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I think my junk would qualify as a muscle truck. I transplanted a 440 and torqueflite into it back in 1990. Drove it thousands and thousands of miles on the street with countless 1/4 mile dragstrip passes. It's best time with the lowbuck 440 was 1.595-60ft, 7.621-1/8, [email protected]/4.
It's been equiped for almost a year now with the 528 Hemi in the picture. I just changed carbs on Sunday on the tunnel ram. It now sports a pair of modified 850 thermoquads. Still need to finish refabricating the throttle linkage and then get some LM-1 readings and start tuning them.
Oh ya, it's scary quick with the 528, and I still don't know how high this thing will rev. I've been shifting it at 7000 and it still hasn't hit it's power peak. I'm hoping to have all the upgrades done this winter so I can get a few timeslips next summer. Dave

[shaun callaway]

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Nice ride duner.

we have our fair share of drag trucks (mostly dodges) down here in socal. i too own a 97 v8 dakota, almost 200,000 miles and still pures like a kitten.

[Devil]

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This is going to be my muscle truck.





Ryan

[ZZTOP]

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When I turned 16 dad And I bought a truck from a fellow he worked with
The Engine was blown It was a 55 ford Pickup

We put a 69 351 Not sure if it was a Windsor or Cleavland
With the c4 auto Shift in the floor
The truck had a 6 in it So I don’t know how low the
Gearing would have been BUT IT SURE WAS FUN


I Now have A 95 LIGHTING SC
Now and again driver with my son going to shows and so fourth

[bowtiemonster]

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94 C1500, and 83 El Camino (Crunk)

[Duner]

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I'm into trucks.... muscle trucks.
Mopar didn't make any modern muscle cars when I wanted one.
The closest thing was a V8 Dakota. I bought one and have been hooked every since.

Right now I have a couple of Dakotas. A '00 4.7 Sport, and a '99 R/T. I turbo'd both of them.

My '00 4.7 Sport is my daily driver and has been turbo'd for over 6 years. Nobody made (or makes) anything for a 4.7 Dodge, so I made it all myself... in my garage. It's got a single T4 turbo with a .96 turbine and a 60-1 HiFi compressor. I also built an air/water intercooler and fuel rail cooling system that utilizes the factory air conditioning system for chilling the water. There's nothing like making 50° water for the intercooler while driving down the freeway on the way to work. I've raced it all over the place, (Pomona, Carlsbad/RIP CA, Heartland Park Topeka KS, Tucson's SIR, Firebird Raceway and Speedworld here in AZ, as well as used it as my tow vehicle for getting my other toys to the dunes. Almost 100K miles and about 600 timeslips.... poor thing!



David Frieburger - You probably don't remember it, but I remember you leaning under the hood of it at MATS few years ago when it didn't make any noise but was running mid-12's. It was great fun beating some of the trailered cars, then passing them and their tow rigs on the way back to Phoenix.
http://members.cox.net/duner/Turbo/RTnotTurboPage.html
http://members.cox.net/duner/Turbo/DunervsLethal.wmv

My newest project is my '99 Dakota R/T.
While people do make parts for it, and it's 5.9 Magnum - I still built the turbo and air/water intercooler system at home. I ran it supercharged for awhile, but grew tired of smoking the belts. Granted, I was trying to make too much boost with it, but it worked. (I just need to change the graphics on it) It's been so much fun building the parts and just plain playing with this truck. The performance difference between the blower and turbo has been outstanding! 6 tenths and 5 mph - on 2 psi less boost. So far the best timeslips are 10.90s @ 124+ mph. I'm still running the original unmolested '99 5.9 shortblock in it, but I've ported the heads and added an M1 intake and lumpy cam to go along with the single GT4202 turbo. I also built a unique air/water intercooler system for this truck - which also utilizes the factory AC system to chill the water. The intercooler is built into the airhat and bolts directly to the throttle body. This not only cools the intake charge, but sucks heat out of the throttle body and intake manifold as well.



I've made some recent improvements to the suspension of the truck, so I hope to improve on it's performance numbers.
I'm betting that the new 4,000 stall convertor along with the CalTracs and slicks will help some!

[BBR]

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In my opinion, the only difference between a muscle car and a muscle truck is you can haul shit with a muscle truck...

Yep.

;D

[RAM MAN]

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my former show truck



(now sold)

[etbird]

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Yeah I've got a muscle truck. 06 dodge with a cummins. Big exhaust, bullydog downloader, it has suprised a few racecars, hahaha, and you can tow ANYTHING!

[Scott Liggett]

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I don't know if it's a new thing. Many of the guys I cruised with back in the day had "muscle" trucks. Being from Nebraska, there were a lot more pick ups running around simply because they are the farmers workhorses of the last 75 years. Just like now, they came with V8 power, rear drive, and were cheap. A lot of guys had huge by large motors in those trucks. Mid 60's through the early 80's were the norm. Chevy and Ford made up the most of them. My close buddy, Bob Leach had a 78 Dodge that was pretty quick. It was the luxury version of the Lil Red Express Truck of the same year. And, Elcamino's were everywhere.

That's his in the background.

[HillbillySailor]

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Sounds like a family could live in there! ;)

[TheSilverBuick]

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The trunk is as big as a Chevy Luv bed, even with the top down :P

[HillbillySailor]

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I don't think you want to haul fire wood in that Buick! ;D

[TheSilverBuick]

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In my opinion, the only difference between a muscle car and a muscle truck is you can haul shit with a muscle truck...

I've been known to carry lumber and make dump trips with the top down on the convertible ;D Who needs a truck when you got a Buick convertible?

I've actually always figured if I ever bought a full size 4WD Truck (GM) I'd have to drop a HIGH torque down low Pontiac 455 in it. I'd have to agree with you DF, I see lots of people with all sorts of engine mods on their trucks, but I live up in the hills were everyone owns a truck except me :-\

[squirrel]

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for some fun, embarassing pictures of how I've been into it for the last 30 years, see if you can find my orange truck on my web page.