Yeah Dargo, thats honking right along. Give me about half a day with your truck and I'll get you in the 13's. Weight is your problem. You got to get radical and lighten the thing up.
As I recall, every 100 pounds is worth 10hp. I suppose your going to say something like, "its a work truck" and not let me do my magic.
You are correct about the trap speed, that is the true indicator of your horse power. You can change rear gears, get better or worse traction, and believe it or not, it doesn't change your trap speed very much, just your e.t. Without working the numbers, with that kind of weight and trap speed, I'd guess you are making over 500hp, maybe closer to 600.
LOL, I thought you were going to tell me that I was "asleep at the tree".
When I clearly didn't spool up the turbo or anything I just had to guess at the tree. Believe it or not, after staging, when the first light came on I matted it! LOL
There's that much lag to getting all that weight off the line that I not only didn't red light, but was pretty slow off the tree.
The car I towed up with the truck is a '62 Biscayne with a slightly modified 502ci big block in it. I cut dang near a perfect tree with it but blew them out of the water about 3 different times and then just shut the run down before I lost it. Since it's mostly a show car, I didn't want to take any chance at wrecking it.
I don't care what they say about "street slicks" (D3 compound with tread), they without tubbing my car they just won't hook up. I loved it later when I was going through tech with the truck (wasn't going to chance wrecking my car again) and the tech guy stuck his head in my truck window, looked around, then said "Son, you do realize that you're in your tow truck and not your race car, don't you?"
Loved his sense of humor!
Yes Deerefan, get your truck to a tech who is up on the 6.0 engines and he should be able to make it out to be a pretty nice engine for you. I use an SCT tuner system through the OBDII port and when programmed for 'towing', it never slows down off cruise control speed even on the longest 7 percent interstate grades even when hauling more than I really should. I just didn't want to be that guy in the right lane with his hazard lights on running 30 mph when clearing Mount Eagle just outside of Chattanooga. Been there, done that, gave the T shirt back.
You're right dodge man, it's my work truck. It's a freaking muddy mess right now after I got stuck hauling my Takeuchi TL150 on a muddy road and had to unload the CTL to pull myself out. I did make one concession when I ran it; I took the 100 gallon fuel tank out of the bed. With a full tank of fuel in it and the weight of the tank, I figured that I shed 900 pounds or so anyway. I probably did have a good 300 to 350 pounds in my toolbox still though. Oh well, my '96 Dodge with the 5.9 Cummins was actually faster, but I'd spent quite a bit more on it with twins, studs, O rings, injectors, 4000 governor springs and Stoopid pump and had one of Clint Canon's AST transmissions in the Dodge. I'm not sure whether I'm big on Clint's transmissions or not. I broke 2 of them, but he did make good on them. It was a PIA, but it didn't cost me any. From your area, you've probably heard of Scheid Diesel. They did part of the work, I did part and Kolb Diesel did the rest. The tranny in the F350 is bone stock; thus the easy 'launch'.
