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I "met" this guy through the harley truck forums a few years back and even though we have never met in person I have become really good friends with him.


Hes not a wealthy man and has been saving hard for years to get a fully built motor and a twin screw blower.

4 months ago he dropped off his truck and a check for $12,000.

Heres a vid from his first dyno day...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8125578794

He said the truck is a friggin ANIMAL and hes pretty much scared of mashing the go pedal

It lifted one of the heads the day before yesterday so its back at the builders getting fixed

sweet is that a 1/2ton chassis and drive train? hows he going to keep it in one piece?

All supercharged harley/lightnings are 1/2 ton chassis (F150), 1 ton (F350) tranny and rear end.

It's a pick up, and it is fast stock, leave it alone. Pouring money into it to go faster is silly to me, it's a pick up. It's like these profilers that lower a perfectly good pick up, ruins the rig when it's time to use it to haul a load of bricks. Or these folks that put a solid fiberglass tonneau cover on the bed, then they can't take a pallet of concrete home. You want fast, good handling, and low? Buy a fricken Corvette or something. You need a strong, heavy duty, towing anything, workhorse? Buy a pick up.

Hes an old school harley guy thats the reason for the truck, and even though hes 60+ he still like haulin ass thats the reason for the build

you only get one time around. make the best of it you can and do the shit you want to do. obviously this guy wanted this truck for a long time. more power to him

100hp honda wrote:you only get one time around. make the best of it you can and do the shit you want to do.

LIVIN THE DREAM!!!

100hp honda wrote:you only get one time around. make the best of it you can and do the shit you want to do. obviously this guy wanted this truck for a long time. more power to him

Hell yea!!!!!!!


I think the biggest reason im happy for him is he aint a spoiled kid, he wanted something then saved his ass off to get it.

There are so many people on the SVT forums that either go into massive debt or have daddy pay for all there shit.

britincali wrote: or have daddy pay for all there shit.

yup, and they never appreciate it... thats why my kids are buying their own first cars just like I did
btw, that one sick truck makes me miss my go fast cars...

dannygraves wrote: makes me miss my go fast cars...

is this it? some old man is driving it now

That's ALMOST as cool as this...

na, I just dug up some old pics, some from when I was building the white car and some from after everything moved to the black car.




yes that is a 70mm mustang TB




total sleeper for an 11sec car, eh?
man, this makes me sad, I'm gonna go cry myself to sleep now remembering my motormount breaking power and how I sold it for nothing

Sweet car danny, i'll bet it was fun as fuk to drive

hellz yeah it was fun! They ruled SCCA from '87-'89 for a reason! the thing handled, I had poly bushings all the way around and came stock with a killer IRS setup wiht a 3.54 LSD stock and 6 bolt axles that could take 500hp all damn day. even in stock form it was fun as hell...then completely built with 26psi coming out of a 20G on 100 octane fuel that NEEDED 86lb/hr injectors...it was just plain scary! It was no unusual for me to head to work early to beat traffic and find myself doing over 150 just...messin around with my sds and changing my ignition curve. that thing was my baby and I sold it becasue I was having a real life baby...still makes me sad, I'll get another one some day, or a replacement atleast.

You tried bolting the oil pan to the head? I didnt know you have known Brit for this long?

very funny 808!
na, hofarted took this pic and didn't remove the pan ,I was in the middle of assembling it. How do you like the polished and clear powder coated valve cover and timing cover ?
hoofarted dropped those off with my 125 pipe without telling me...I guess the bling wasn't optional

UPDATE....


He blew the headgasket a few weeks back and finally got it in the shop, they found this....


http://www.nhtoc.com/vbforum/2000-2003- ... truck.html


$$$$$$$ down the molten highway.......

yup, lean conditions can be a bitch!!!
majorly sucks!

Yep, that ones gona cost ya.

I just got of the phone with him and it looks like hes out his life savings...

The shortlock is a JLP unit that's bored 20 over because of that he cant just rebore and slap some pisons in, the shop is gonna try to hone out the scarring otherwise the blocks screwed.

The shop won't warranty the motor as it obviously ran lean and the tuner is'nt stepping up either.

Hes a depressed mess rite now, im really worried about him

Dont play, if you cant pay.

I dont understand hopping up that shortblock anyways...... It will fail several different ways.

with the right rods and pistons, those modular blocks can make big power reliably. Sounds to me like the tuner didn't know what he was doing... thats why I did all my own setup on my mitsu. plus I didn't have any money to have someone else tune it.
did he have a wideband a/f meter?

With the internals he has it should be able to take 1100 hp all day long, lean melts stuff tho.......


Yea he had a wideband, when he first got it running his "break in tune" was floating around 10.5-11/1 AF ratio, REALLY fat for just cruising around I dont see how the motor was able to break in properly with that much fuel washing everything down.

The dyno vids show the AF on the hard runs and it all looks good, I still think it has a massive lean spot somewhere tho.

The piston that melted was #7 and the shattered plug was #8, when one of these motors is hot or pinging those are the first two to go. (mine shattered rod #7 and melted plug #8_

yeah, lean+boost=really bad. When I was first tuning my mitsu, it was rich as hell and puffing smoke evrywhere, but thats a lot better than melted pistons