I'll keep this short, I came across a red lightning today on a main rd here in orlando (SR-436 for the locals) and I was in my 6spd Dodge Ram Cummins Turbo Diesel 2500.
we Raced twice. He flew by me when I was driving, so I downshifted and took off after him, when I caught up to him he was crusing pretty fast 65MPH in a 50, so I backed off a bit, (not wanting to race at high speeds in the area I was in, and then I boosted from 50 MPH to about 75 and FLEW by him boosting and gaining speed rapidly. I saw him start to come up on me, so I slowed down alot, and he passed me. Finally he got the Idea, and I caught up to him going about 35mph, alrready in 4th gear. As we were going the same speed, I slow behind him a bit, and NAILED the gas, so he could see my move and react so we were both flooring it when we got side by side, I managed to chirp the tires into 5th! and he pulled on me as soon as I shifted, but as I wound out 5th, I began to pull up to his ass end, then 6th gear came, and we must have changed gears (or his automatic did, as I believe all of them are auto) at the same time, because when I shifted, I stayed right on his ass, But as I began to build boost in 6th he started to drift away again, this time getting almost a car length on me. by this time we were going almost 75mph, and I was ready to let off, but I had gotten to my sweet spot, upon hitting 70, I guess it was design to have the best acceleration at passing speed, and I was able to pull up to his rear bumper, but after I hit 80, my powerband started to die, I let off before I hit 90, and he was by then a car length or 2 ahead of me.
We came to a light, and he seemed like he wanted to run from a dig, So I switched into 4 high, and revved the shit out of my engine, and nailed it when the light turned green, I had him for the first half of a second on the launch, but when I had to shift 3 times in like 5 seconds, He was GONE, at least 4 cars ahead of me.
From a roll, I was very suprised how much I could keep up with a llghtning in my 5000 pound truck.
My mods are: K&N Intake, Edge CPU, MBC, and muffler replaced with a straight pipe.
Not much done to my truck, but the edge cpu will add 30 - 90 HP depending on intake/exhaust/injectors. I have it on stage one, which is 30hp gain, For intake exhuast. I know it's a pretty good chip, as it keeps the truck running a good A/R i think. I can't be sure, but it gets GREAT mileage, and can romp on a non-swapped or non-boosted honda anyday, and even 80's American v8's like the monte carlo or camaro or el camino
The only reason I kept up with the lightning is from 4th to 6th gear, I pull some serious power, I could probably walk an older mustang from 4th to 6th gear but only in my sweet spot
All in all, Im impressed, I'm not so sure my MBC works right because its the stock wastegate, so I think it would only be keeping it open longer? or something, I've only gotten 29 lbs max and I think stock is 27
Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but a MBC can only really lower the boost on a turbo with an internal wastegate right?????????
First thing I need to do is get a real exhaust and downpipe, because all those hot gases are draining me of power, I imagine with a full 4 inch turbo back exhaust I could easily gain 50 WHP from stock with everything else.
So yeah, I lost, by alot for the most part, but Its a 4x4 giant beast not a race car. And also for the record, I've raced a few f250 turbo diesels, and I walk all over them everytime.
My truck is a single cab extended bed forest green 4x4 with the cummins transmission and the rare cummins extra heavy duty clutch. I got the whole cummins setup, not the shitty dodge tranny.
I've ran my truck in the 1/4 mile before, and I pulled a 17.4 its too heavy of a truck for that kind of race, but its so damn fast once it starts moving 
we Raced twice. He flew by me when I was driving, so I downshifted and took off after him, when I caught up to him he was crusing pretty fast 65MPH in a 50, so I backed off a bit, (not wanting to race at high speeds in the area I was in, and then I boosted from 50 MPH to about 75 and FLEW by him boosting and gaining speed rapidly. I saw him start to come up on me, so I slowed down alot, and he passed me. Finally he got the Idea, and I caught up to him going about 35mph, alrready in 4th gear. As we were going the same speed, I slow behind him a bit, and NAILED the gas, so he could see my move and react so we were both flooring it when we got side by side, I managed to chirp the tires into 5th! and he pulled on me as soon as I shifted, but as I wound out 5th, I began to pull up to his ass end, then 6th gear came, and we must have changed gears (or his automatic did, as I believe all of them are auto) at the same time, because when I shifted, I stayed right on his ass, But as I began to build boost in 6th he started to drift away again, this time getting almost a car length on me. by this time we were going almost 75mph, and I was ready to let off, but I had gotten to my sweet spot, upon hitting 70, I guess it was design to have the best acceleration at passing speed, and I was able to pull up to his rear bumper, but after I hit 80, my powerband started to die, I let off before I hit 90, and he was by then a car length or 2 ahead of me.
We came to a light, and he seemed like he wanted to run from a dig, So I switched into 4 high, and revved the shit out of my engine, and nailed it when the light turned green, I had him for the first half of a second on the launch, but when I had to shift 3 times in like 5 seconds, He was GONE, at least 4 cars ahead of me.
From a roll, I was very suprised how much I could keep up with a llghtning in my 5000 pound truck.
My mods are: K&N Intake, Edge CPU, MBC, and muffler replaced with a straight pipe.
Not much done to my truck, but the edge cpu will add 30 - 90 HP depending on intake/exhaust/injectors. I have it on stage one, which is 30hp gain, For intake exhuast. I know it's a pretty good chip, as it keeps the truck running a good A/R i think. I can't be sure, but it gets GREAT mileage, and can romp on a non-swapped or non-boosted honda anyday, and even 80's American v8's like the monte carlo or camaro or el camino
The only reason I kept up with the lightning is from 4th to 6th gear, I pull some serious power, I could probably walk an older mustang from 4th to 6th gear but only in my sweet spot
All in all, Im impressed, I'm not so sure my MBC works right because its the stock wastegate, so I think it would only be keeping it open longer? or something, I've only gotten 29 lbs max and I think stock is 27
Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but a MBC can only really lower the boost on a turbo with an internal wastegate right?????????
First thing I need to do is get a real exhaust and downpipe, because all those hot gases are draining me of power, I imagine with a full 4 inch turbo back exhaust I could easily gain 50 WHP from stock with everything else.
So yeah, I lost, by alot for the most part, but Its a 4x4 giant beast not a race car. And also for the record, I've raced a few f250 turbo diesels, and I walk all over them everytime.
My truck is a single cab extended bed forest green 4x4 with the cummins transmission and the rare cummins extra heavy duty clutch. I got the whole cummins setup, not the shitty dodge tranny.
I've ran my truck in the 1/4 mile before, and I pulled a 17.4
its too heavy of a truck for that kind of race, but its so damn fast once it starts moving
maybe it would be faster? take off in second bang 4th, 5th, 6th?
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