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Owned & raced by Mel Gochnour
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Pictures of when I bought the Syclone! It was one week old! |
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Block: Stock production 4.3L
Pistons: TRW Forged .040 over
Crank: Stock 3.50" stroke reground to .010 and balanced
Rods: Stock
Heads: Ported stock castings with Ferrea 2.02 - 1.60 valves
Cam: Comp Cams Hyd Roller.
Intake lift: .495 with 218 duration.
Exhaust lift: .513 with 220 duration.
Intercooler: Waller Performance upgraded intercooler with rerouted coolant hoses to heat exchanger to help eliminate heat soaking. Aux heat exchanger fan.
Future mods to intercooler: Reroute cooler lines to a ice chest located in the bed. Water will be circulated using a SurFlow intercooler water pump!
Turbo: TE-44 three bolt with .63 turbine housing.
Rocker Arms: Roller 1.6 Ratio under stock valve covers.
Intake: Stock, gasket matched to heads
Throttle body: Stock with Air Foil installed
Fuel Control: KB adjustable fuel regulator, stock ECM with programmable multi chip. 50lb injectors. Walbro 255 pump with 10 gauge "hot wire".
COMING SOON: F.A.S.T XFI
Air Filter Assembly: 9" K&N with 3” outlet. Air filter is completely boxed in and is plumbed to help prevent under hood heat from entering engine.
Exhaust: Stock heat wrapped manifolds to help prevent under hood heat. ATR 3" stainless external waste gate down pipe flowing into a large single 4" inlet muffler. It then has two tailpipes exiting out the back. This system has less than 2lb of backpressure and it's VERY quiet.
Transmission: Stock 700-R4 with a shift kit and a 3000 Stall Torque Converter. Oversized B&M pan.
Front & Rear Axle: Stock 7.5" housing with stock 3.42 ratio gears. Stock front and ADDCO rear anti sway bar.
Tires & Wheels:
Front: 16x8 with P-255-60-16 tires
Rear: 16x8 with P-255-60-16 tires
Drag Strip Tires & Rims: Same as above
Harmonic Balancer & Flywheel: Stock with Hypertech under drive pulley
Gauges:
Glow Shift Fuel Pressure gauge
Glow Shift 7 color 30-0-30 gauge
Faze AFR full sweep gauge
Misc.: Stock radiator with auxiliary "pusher" cooling fan located behind grill, 160deg T-stat. NGK UR5's plugs, Taylor Blue 8.8mm wires, Conrad cap and rotor, 1000 CCA Battery located in bed.
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Cruising down the highway! ←

← Drag strip #1 ← → Drag strip #2 ← → Drag strip #3 ← |
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→ Short video of truck shot with a digital still camera. ← |
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Getting ready to launch & then launching!
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The picture below is not from this truck. It's just to show how the engine compartment is configured. Updated pictures of actual engine... soon !
Don't look at the black truck in the next picture....look at the reflection in the black truck!
Page updated: 4/8/2008