lolwut... autocross in a truck

[PEZi]

so thanks to a local forum guy... i have a video of my first run from sunday

now... i wish he woulda got my later and faster runs... but just for you guys... here is a little truck autocross action!

(by the way... even tho its my first run of the day... it was still faster than the guy with the camera's fastest run of the day... and he was in a NISMO 350Z!)

and just so you guys know... my exhaust sounds better in person... the mic didn't pick it up well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...lated

[dogred]

That is a cool video. I will have to post up some pics of my ghetto ram air intake. Did you run ducts from the highbeams to your front brakes to help cool them? My buddy did this for his 86 camaro, he is runnig in the SCCA club trials.

[PEZi]

nah... i just removed all 4 headlights and considering there's nothing inside the engine bay almost all the air from outside makes its way nicely to the filter

[AZhitman]

Nicely done, Sir!

You were HAULIN'!!!

[PEZi]

thanks greg!

[moredunes720]

that was pretty sweet, definitely gonna have to get headers.... i will have to post a vid of catching air off a razorback soon

[PEZi]

haha... the sound in that vid sounds awful man! it sounds ridiculous in person.... headers into fully straight piping with only a resonator... makes the honda guys cry a little inside

[moredunes720]

LOL. It sounded good until the mic caught some wind. You should dyno the thing before you do your side draft project, and record that! Then you can compare before and after. I am running strait welded pipe into a cheap muffler, from the stock exhaust manifold. It's kinda loud though, since I have a broken bolt stuck in the head for the exhaust man mounting bolts. When I was putting the engine back together, I found it and said oh well, I just want to see if it runs. It is a real pita to reach.

[PEZi]

i guess it may sound better on certain speakers than others... mine are pretty bad

nothing beats hearing it in person though

i'll probably dyno it before and after... but money to do the project is where i'm stuck at

[flinterman2000]

It sounds wicked. Down here in the caribbean we call it solodex. Same flat course coned sections and it real fun.

[PEZi]

solodex.

it seems related even with the name.... because it is classfied as solo or solo2 here

[Project Trucker]

how well does your truck do in auto cross its almost completly stock right? My friends tease me about my truck and i think its a good truck sad face lol

[PEZi]

i beat many 'performance' cars and a lot of people get confused....

it's mostly stock relatively speaking... i've lightened it extensively no interior... battery where the passenger seat was... no headlights anymore etc.

and i've added power with a full custom exhaust with headers and no cat

stiffened it via shocks and lowered it

as i said in the original post... the guy holding the camera actually ran a full 2 seconds slower than me in a NISMO 350Z

[Project Trucker]

i noticed my truck was fairly light originaly my buddies 2 of em can lift my truck are you going to add any engine modifications ? high intake, bore out any lighter pistons flywheel upgrade clutch, blower cause i dont think you can add turbo to carberated engines and have run correctly. O and did u upgrade shocks/suspension?

[PEZi]

yeah i gave it stiffer shocks

my other plans are in my build thread... check it out!

[Project Trucker]

like ive posted before i want to get new paint job and new interior after a while upgrade soundsystem in truck with middle console that will hold a mtx jackhammer sub or a couple soundstorm subs then ill get two or three 200 300 watt speakers two or three tweeters rated between 100 or 250 watt and two soundstorm 4,000 watt amps i want to turn my truck into a very nice show truck i want to be able to show off my truck i got this friend with 2 12" subs that are powered by a 600 watt amp it will be nothing compared to my sound system

[Project Trucker]

if i knew how to post pics i would show you the stuff i can post links to paint, rims and speakers, subs and tweeters if you want to see ( all of this will hopefully be aquired over the next few years)

radio link http://www.onlinecarstereo.com...18915

if i get this sub ill get 2 or three http://www.onlinecarstereo.com...17619

the all mighty mtx jackhammer i couldnt find but i know a guy were i can get one for $400

i was thinking about these for tweeters they are fairly cheap 39 for pair i thinkhttp://www.onlinecarstereo.com...15930

these for speakershttp://www.onlinecarstereo.com...17615

mabe one of these amps for subs and then a multi channel for speakers and tweeters http://www.keenzo.com/showprod...57343

o and this color paint http://www.paintforcars.com/ae....html

then i got nomad II crome rims for $49 a piece and two bucket seats with canvas grey and green for $289 for a pair with mounting brackets
Modified by Project Trucker at 4:14 PM 8/21/2009

[flinterman2000]

using a digital camera take the pictures, then go to photobucket.com, upload and use the lowest link on the picture you choose, copy and paste to your post. down here in the caribbean, we are accoustomed to turboing carburetted cars. Detonation is the main problem so we inject either alcohol or water to get around that. fuel pressure regulation is another problem and is solved with an adjustable regulator. the higher the boost fuel to the carb must be proportionate.

[Project Trucker]

you can use alchohol on carburated engines? i thought they had to be fuel injection huh

[flinterman2000]

used a wiper washer and piped it below the carb with a switch. these days we use screwed fittings into the manifold below the carb and aftermarket fuel pump to help with automization of the spray. we do not lower compression but sometimes increase it. built an L18 with estimated 200 bhp in 1990.

[Project Trucker]

cool but i dont think i will modify my carb any im making my truck a show truck it would be cool but i dont want to do stuff to my truck that i dont know anything about i dont want to screw engine up its cool that you can do that i thought that you had to do fuel injection to have it

[PEZi]

nah... its all about tuning and jetting and making sure your parts are alcohol friendly... whatever carb i end up getting... i plan on using E85 through it

[Project Trucker]

when ever soem one talks about E85 having better gas miliage i laugh because its less fuel efficient so you end up paying same price for same miles its great but im not sure about the whole power boost or not

[comrade_charlie]

I know e85 is better for turbo cars but it has to be tuned for it, and you need injectors about twice the size you would with gas. Ive heard its basicly like running 120something octane.

[PEZi]

yeah you have to tune for it... it can give you better gas mileage but no one will ever get that...

to run it in a carbed car you have to flow the jets 30% higher to make up the fuel densities... this will give you back your regular performance but with 105 octane fuel so you'll torque a little more... but the cool part is that it is 105 octane... so what you do is instead of just 30% is you flow the hell out of it and adjust your timing higher with a cam or something and voila! insta-power!

i'm not sure what the numbers will look like in the z24 but i'm excited to see the result

i know that in big V8's... up here at the drag strip... E85 adds 80-100 horsepower!!! when tuned properly of course

in the little z24.... if i can get 35-40 i'll be f***in ecstatic!

[flohtingPoint]

I'm VERY familiar with that "lock my brakes" poof of smoke at the 30 second interval. No ABS in the GTS =(

Looked like a clean run man. I wish we had an in-cockpit view, as I'm quite curious about how your lines look and your braking points per segment.

[PEZi]

yeah i know... that was my first run of the day so the lines were actually not where they should have been

i had a GoPro for one event... and somehow it only recorded the first run (also terrible) and then it died... i didn't even feel like editing it :/

oh yeah... this was before i did my endlink work as well so there was more understeer than i would like but it may not be all that noticeable in the video

if you feel like viewing it its here... just fast forward to 3:10 unless you wanna watch grid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycq15mPuAOI

[flohtingPoint]

yeah i know... that was my first run of the day so the lines were actually not where they should have been

i had a GoPro for one event... and somehow it only recorded the first run (also terrible) and then it died... i didn't even feel like editing it :/

oh yeah... this was before i did my endlink work as well so there was more understeer than i would like but it may not be all that noticeable in the video

if you feel like viewing it its here... just fast forward to 3:10 unless you wanna watch grid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycq15mPuAOI

Will check this out when I'm less drunk. Relatively destroyed right now, so I wouldn't be able to make out an apex from a banana.

[PEZi]

well i can tell ya... that run has about as much apex as a banana

it was seriously a terrible run.... and TERRIBLE understeer

[PEZi]

i guess i should make it very clear... the 2 videos are NOT THE SAME EVENT!!!