How can i win????

bart said:

ok so some of you know that i have a bronco 2 with a 5.0 in it. its a car motor and not a truck one ok. so ya know when im at the strip or out on the street i tend to look for other trucks to play with, mainly because its not fair to run a stang or camaro cuz i weigh 1k more lbs, and my truck is a flying brick. but anyways. i have a story and a few questions.

ok so few days ago just cruising around town, lightning is in front of me, never tackled one, (alot of z71's and chevys in general around here so i usually dont see the lightnings) so hes acting like he wants to play. he acts an ass a few times while im thinking this over. so as we are goin out of town he starts to get on it and so do i, ok he busted my ass up to about 70 mph, probabaly pulled a good 5 cars on me, but about that speed is where mine always wakes up. well i start to pull on him and i get up to about his tailgate when he lets out.......so im like **** cuz i was still pullin pretty good. so i was tellin some of my friends up at ford about it expecting them to laugh, and most of them were like "nah, they dont have much top end, but they got killer take off though". ok now these guys are world class BS artists and im not sure if they were yankin my crank. so anyways i see dude in the lightning again up at walmart yesterday and hes all like "you wanna get that ass busted again?" which i was like "you didnt bust my ass and if thats all a blown 5.4 can pull on a stock bottom end 302 then you might wanna go back to ford and pick up an escort so you can save on gas". ok so im pretty pissed about it, not the race but the **** talkin. so what i wanna know is, is it true they have no top end? was that one just slow? was he just a bad driver? have i dug myself a grave now by talkin ****? what can i do to mine to give him an actual run (forced induction AND n/a)? i have access to a bottle, but it cant be a large shot cuz i have hyper pistons, i dont really think i can afford a blower or even a stroker kit at this point. my motor now has all the bolt-ons minus heads (what i have are 40s with mill work and valve work) i have a DOA behind it, but id like to stay auto just for the fact that i hate changing clutches and having to that every once and again is enough to convince me not to have one.

so am i wasting my breath here? do you guys have problems with lightnings?

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bart said:

well that was stripped down when i did that. well my friend parker actually made that pass in it. it was pretty much a driver seat and a dash. 3700lbs is about what we thought it weighed when i ran that, with full interior, me, and full tank it clocks in about 4200lbs. i had street tires also which is why i had the bad short time. dont have a torque converter neither, still using stock. which there isnt a stall there at all. traction is a problem at the track for me. and for even that if its under 30mph you can stomp it and it just eats (on the street). mid range is ok, it acts like it has a stuttering problem and then takes off. 65-70+ is where it comes alive. i dunno why. i put a video of it in TALK where i punched it about 80, you can see how it accelerates in that video. i actually think the thread was called "video". it runs low 14s mostly sometimes high 13s with the interior in it, which is 3 extra seats a huge carpet and a big speaker box.

right now, i have ud pullies, mac cai, 77mm pro-m, 65mm tb, gt-40 intake, gt-40 heads (milled .020, 3 angle valve job, 1.6 rollers) e-cam, hooker LT's, h-pipe, dual 40s, aod transgo hp kit, 3.73s out back

if you can explain to me why my truck is like this, id love to know. it sucks in town, cuz like a focus or damn rice burner can kick it next to me and i cant do **** with em for a hundred feet or so, then i pull away. but they of course come away saying that they at least ran with me for a sec or so.....which i hate.

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