New score super 8 class

[Jerry Zaiden]

The problem with a sealed ECU is that every Vehicle's Exhaust and air intake will have to be very close in design, or there will be lean and rich issues, along with Engine failures!!! OPEN ECU and Sealed Engines by a reputable SEALER.

Not true... These engines have sensors on what comes into the engine "MAF" and what is coming out of the engine "O2". This is how all these stock cars like a Corvette get to install aftermarket headers and intakes. The computer compensates for the change. As the change is not that drastic.

Newhan was right. If y'all want to run a low(er) dollar, last longer, spec class, the way to do it is with pump gas and restrictor plates and let everybody do what they want around those limits. Far easier to control and inspect.

I asked Casey to put in the rule "Pump Gas" He said he does not want to deal with it. Either way it does not matter with a sealed engine and ECU as running to much octain will burn to slow and you will lose power and running to little octane will burn to fast and you will hurt the engine. Thes engines will run best on 91 octane. No advantage with race gas...

Setup wins more races than horsepower. Maybe work on that instead of worrying about 5 or 6 horsepower.

You are correct. Heck I do not think 20hp would make a big difference...

Why are so many people so negative on a class they have no intention of participating in? To many racers spend to much time worrying about other people cheating and not enough time developing their own race program. The rumor mill is always concocting a new story about Joe blow cheating and 99% of the time its pure dog sheet. Cutting off a engine seal with a serial number and replacing it undetected is hard to do.

Because they will not be racing one of these trucks... haha Or they are afraid these trucks might just go faster than they think!

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[BANNED4LIFE]

Why not have Turnkey replace the missing seal?

im sure they will.........i assumed it only had ONE seal (from turnkey)......like when they SEALED the ecotecs......ecotecs i had from turnkey never had pan seals, only one seal on the top......

[FlyHiFlyLo]

Hey Jerry what are you going to do when you put your TT Lite on the chassis dyno and you see there is only 235hp to the rear wheels? Post the dyno sheet when you get it done.

[BANNED4LIFE]

here is the problem, jerry's bestest buddy and SPONSOR is the guy that tags and post techs the CLASS.....am i the only one that sees the CONFLICT OF INTEREST.............and yes, i know what your asking yourself.........why would colby sponsor, or be bestest buddys with him.......

[BANNED4LIFE]

interesting note.......a t-400 only weighs 18 pounds more then a t-350.......i thought it would be much more......carry on.....

[younggunracer]

Think u could get a TKO600 or similar manual to last richmond/gforce? 5 gears and 50lbs lighter

[Zambo]

Hey Jerry what are you going to do when you put your TT Lite on the chassis dyno and you see there is only 235hp to the rear wheels? Post the dyno sheet when you get it done.

Fly, a little off topic but how much HP do you think such a motor is making at the crank?

[FlyHiFlyLo]

interesting note.......a t-400 only weighs 18 pounds more then a t-350.......i thought it would be much more......carry on.....

That really don't matter in this class... The convertor is what you want to make sure is bad ass... You can also lighten drums, planets the steels between the frictions. The steels in the drums can be Ti and that reduces rotating mass. Also when you do a high stall ....sure it seems faster out of the hole but on these low powered POS you lose a ton of effective power and build heat while it's slipping at 3K. Run a low gear 1/2 planet and you can get away with a lot less stall.

Fly, a little off topic but how much HP do you think such a motor is making at the crank?

Well if GM gave an SAE rating at 400 or so then I would expect it to be within 5% of that.

[Zambo]

Thanks, I just don't really know how much power loss there is between the crank and the wheels with the big tires, etc. My pre runner puts down just under 230 with 37s and 4.56s but I really have no idea how that compares to advertised HP in other vehicles.

[FlyHiFlyLo]

Thanks, I just don't really know how much power loss there is between the crank and the wheels with the big tires, etc. My pre runner puts down just under 230 with 37s and 4.56s but I really have no idea how that compares to advertised HP in other vehicles.

With an auto trans 30% MIN!