bad vibration

[LTZ C20]

Ok, ok already. Picked up truck today, smooth as glass. Takes off like a super sport! And still, Vile got that thing to humm like a sewing machine.  I'll post a good video tomorrow. Been burning rubber all over town!! Gonna be hard to sleep tonight. I actually cant wait to go to work tomorrow, might take the long way, back country roads.

Hahaha like a kid in a candy store. I'm glad Vile was able to help you out and everything went good.

[Captain Swampy]

Ok, ok already. Picked up truck today, smooth as glass. Takes off like a super sport! And still, Vile got that thing to humm like a sewing machine.  I'll post a good video tomorrow. Been burning rubber all over town!! Gonna be hard to sleep tonight. I actually cant wait to go to work tomorrow, might take the long way, back country roads.

LOL, Two new rear tires are included in the part when I said " Make an honest estimate, take a 1/3 of that and add it together for your total".  Just out of curiosity, how close to the truth did that come? 

[philo_beddoe]

I know swamp, i gotta be careful, these are my new hankook white walls.

[LTZ C20]

Well then rotate the fronts to the back and backs to the front and do the same amount of burn outs and then all for tires will be the same again. Lol

[blazer74]

Enjoy!

[philo_beddoe]

Well then rotate the fronts to the back and backs to the front and do the same amount of burn outs and then all for tires will be the same again. Lol

Your a genius! Watch out neighbors!!

[philo_beddoe]

Will post some pics and/or a video soon, gonna do a little touch up in the engine area, Vile left the easy work for me.  Stay tuned...

[LTZ C20]

Well then rotate the fronts to the back and backs to the front and do the same amount of burn outs and then all for tires will be the same again. Lol

Your a genius! Watch out neighbors!!

Careful now, let's not fill my head with any more hot air than its already got! LOL

[philo_beddoe]

Wow, almost forgot how much fun these old squarebodies were to drive. Its weird, when your truck aint right, kinda sucks the fun out of it. Vile said not to be afraid to "get on it", no problem here. Of course, that 350 is sure sucking down the fuel.

[Rattler12]

Then you'd hate a BB

[Greybeard]

If there was such a thing as good gas anymore ....it wouldn't change anything....my eighties hypo engine got 10mpg, no matter what. empty, loaded, pulling a trailer, it didn't matter, it never changed.

[philo_beddoe]

Yup, i used to have a hot rod, try 6 mi. / gal., good ole days.

[Greybeard]

Yup, I had a 74 Monte with a BB, a 74 was about the largest car ever built I think. 4700lbs. yet it would do consistent 15 seconds in the quarter. I won a lot of trophy's in brackets. My times never wavered more than a tenth or two. 15 seconds is not fast, I got to max speed within an eight mile, from there on out I just twiddled my thumbs waiting for the traps to show up on the horizon. I always had plenty of time to write down the license plate number of the car that just passed me... But I usually won the race....that is why a lot of folks never liked bracket racing I guess, it didn't matter who crossed the line first, just that you never went faster than the time you called out but came closest to it. I would always call out 15.199 seconds. My never car would never break out of that time. 

[philo_beddoe]

Lot of reading there,,simple question here, whats overall best and safest for these older type engines, regular or super?

[SomeTexan]

Lot of reading there,,simple question here, whats overall best and safest for these older type engines, regular or super?

It depends. If it runs right on regular, use it. Extra octane slows down the burning of the fuel and will cost you efficiency unless you need the extra octane to avoid pinging. You can adjust the timing to control that, but depending on your build you may advance or retard past the engines most efficient setting. It's been proven on the dyno that the old "advance until it pings, then back off a few degrees" method can cost you power and efficiency.