I was looking on some stuff online tonight, and it appears for my truck @ 6000 lbs, it will take 1600+ HP to run 9 sec in the quarter mile. What am I gonna do. I will have to take all the panels, bed, seats, hood, transfercase, front differential, etc. to get it done. ANy better info?

 

buy a motorcycle

 

whered you find that info?

 

That's pretty stupid. I read in HotRod magazine a few years ago where a guy turbocharged a Silverado(6.0Liter I think) and was running 10s at the track. Granted your truck is a lot heavier but with the proper setup you can do it. Although whether or not it's practical to do that with your truck is a different story all together.

 

If you look online, search "horsepower calculator", some will give you the option to put in weight and time. This will give you the needed power. There used to be a better site available, but I cannot find it now.
As far as running my truck with turbo or supercharger, yes that is practical, but I need more info to decide the best for me. The new twin turbo on the ford diesels sounds like a good idea, but expensive.

 

What I meant by practical was I don't know that you would wanna make your full size 4 wheel drive pickup a 9 second truck. That would be awesome, but I know I wouldn't be trying to do that to mine until I had it payed off. Plus I doubt the 4 wheel drive train can handle that much power.

As far as the power calculator, that is such a ricer program. That's what high school kids do. A lot more is to be included to decide drag strip times. Your certainly not gonna run a 9 second pass with the tires you have on there now. You'd need GOOD slicks, higher diff gears, probably would have to upgrade your tranny to handle all that extra power, yada yada yada....

 

I think i figured I could run the 1/4 in 18.2 with a stock v6. so it must be way off! I figured I would run in the low 8's minimum with my 4.3 liter beast!

 

Sound like you guys are right. There used to be this great program that you could enter alot of info on your truck and it would tell you the approx. 1/4 mile time and seemed pretty accurate. Of course I can no longer find it. Have you guys seen the video on youtube of the guy on the dragstrip in a 4wd silverado? He races it in 4wd and smokes all 4 tires off the line. It is pretty cool. He has a supercharger though. And probably breaks parts like mad.

 

Are you talking about the black SS or is it a regular 4X4? I've seen the SS doing the all wheel drive burnout and raping a couple of trucks. That puts a chessher cat grin on my face!

 

i think i saw one of the new 6.0 L crew cab z71s doing it... and ive seen the ss one charger's referring to