You just Smoked a PSD...what mods do you tell them about?

[Bad340fish]

So you just let off the smoke pedal and let the psd/mustang/duratick/honda ETC catch back up to you. Of course they pull up and ask what is up with your diesel.



Do you tell em what you have? Do you tell them about your EZ box, but forget you mention the HOT pe and DDIIIs in the truck also?? Just curious.



HIperf360 used to have a mustang and camaro eating 12v truck. We just told people it had been turned up. Got some stange looks... but we were not lieng lol.



I got pulled over on the 4th, cop told me he didn't think diesels could move like that and that it had to be modified. Of course I told him it was modified for trailer towing reasons only. I think my Commercial License got me out of that one, and a few before that

 

[The patriot]

Tell them it's stock. When they question it, just say "guess nobody ever bothered to race you. "



Right now, I dont have problems like this.

Eric

 

[illflem]

Just tell them that you're running six quarts of Mountain Dew in every tank of fuel and they should try it

 

[moparguy]

illflem, I thought Doc was the only one with a mean streak. GASOLINE, LOL. Hopefully, nobody will ever do this with a kid driving a PSD or Duramax. They might try it.

 

[illflem]

mopar, you're right, note the edit

 

[Jeff H]

Just say you hit the traction control button.

 

[SLVRBLT]

"Light Speed Switch"

Clark-



Mount a fake switch in the truck and label it "Light Speed", with off and on also marked. Show it to the PSD owner and tell him a lot of Cummins owners have this modification. Tell him they are made in Bugtussle, OK.



Dave

 

[rich m]

Re: "Light Speed Switch"

Originally posted by SLVRBLT

Clark-



Mount a fake switch in the truck and label it "Light Speed", with off and on also marked. Show it to the PSD owner and tell him a lot of Cummins owners have this modification. Tell him they are made in Bugtussle, OK.



Dave

Home of Granny Clampett! ----the prototype switch may have been on Jed's (Jethro's?) old Dodge!

 

[rich m]

Oh, yeah, the original question!!

I give "full disclosure", and tell'em what it cost... then giggle like a schoolgirl when I think of the PSD pilot's face when he calls his local Diesel shop for a quote on the equivalent treatment for his truck!

 

[willyslover]

ok I'll confess. . two nights ago I had a 40 mile race with a 2500 Ford with a 460 big block gas in it. . rural road down in the valley,going up to the mountains where i live. . not very many passing places, I'm the third rig back. . the Ford was in front of me. . he pulled out to pass and I follow. . only when he pulls back in I nurse the slipping clutch and hit a little more go juice. .

well he thinks he has a bad ford so away we go . . some of you know the dually handle like a slot car in the twisties. . hehe , but to his credit he keeps trying. . we finally get to the hills and he thinks that he'll get me there. . wrong three very long hills with some good grades later [i left him at least 100 yards before i let off at each hill]... well we finally get to Sonora and he meets me at a stop light along side... his window was down and he yells what the helll do you have in that thing... my response was oh just a little ol 6 cylinder DIESEL. . you could have blown him over with a feather

I usually get about 16. 5/17 miles per gallon. . my transfer flow gauge showed me is used 13. 5 gals for my 71 mile drive home that night. . think I was on it. . hehe[thats about 5. 25 miles a gal. ]

sometimes I just have to make a believer out of 'em. .

 

[The patriot]

Willys, if you see that brand *F* in your local Dodge dealers used car lot, you ought to get the commision!

LMAO

Eric

 

[SLVRBLT]

Bugtussle, Oklahoma

rich m-



There really is a Bugtussle, Oklahoma! The following is copied from Pittsburg County history:



Bugtussle , a community about six miles NE of McAlester, was renamed Flowery Mound by a school teacher in 1910, but the name Bugtussle persists even today. Its most famous resident was also Oklahoma's highest ranking political figure -- Carl Albert -- who served as Speaker of the US House of Representatives, and was literally "a heartbeat away from the Presidency" following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.



Dave

 

[Grey Wolf]

Willyslover,



Great story, the reaction is similiar to the ones I see at the Diesel drags in Palmdale. If they come to their first Diesel meet they all laugh when a rig pulls up to the line to warm up the tires, then they have to pick up their jaws when the rigs get to the other end... what a priceless expression

 

[COBRAJET]

I usually don't give up the info unless the other driver laughed hard enough to wet himself. The passengers are the funny ones... they just look at the driver like what is wrong with your car. My son and I were playing with a mid 90's Mustang GT over the weekend. He came flying up on us flashing his headlights. There was a car in front of me at the time. After it got out of the way I accelerated around it and waited for the Stang. He got to the rear qtr giving it all it had. At this time I stood on the Cummins. He never got around me. I put about two lenghts on it to 100. I slowed down having proved a point. They pulled up next to me wanting to see what the deal was. The passenger was in tears laughing at his buddies sportscar. We slowed down to about 50 and went again. The Cummins just smoked that car. I ran up to 100 again putting about 4 lenghts on him. The passenger again was in tears just beating on the dash and laughing his butt off. They did like the pillar guages... and now they know that they are monitoring way more power than they had.



I raced the PSD once at the track when my CJ tore the clutch up and ran a high 15. I went three rounds braking out in the semis with a 15. 78 on a 15. 80. The looks are priceless when a big dually pulls around the water box and trips the first light. I had a lot of people on the fences who had to see the thing run after hearing about it after the first pass. I had to walk away from the truck after a while... everybody there had to know what was under the hood. There were not buying the "It's Stock" line. The truck outran two mid 90 Stangs that night. It was funny. The local Muscle Car Challenge Series is a blast here in DFW if anyone is ever interested. There are a ton of nice club cars running down the track like they did in the 60's and 70's..... CJ

 

[Fireman]

Don't admit nothin'

I don't have a fast truck ( yet ), But I have built some pretty fast bikes and when someone asks " what you done to that thing ? " I just shrug my shoulders and shake my head. Let 'em guess. Like Willysolver I love to tell folks " I got a 6 cyl " he he he!



Fireman

 

[Bad340fish]

We have a pretty decent local cruise here in Tulsa. When my Buddy had his BOMBed 12V truck we would always go out there and eat anything we got a chance to race usualy. The truck had a reputation lol. We had a BMW M3 flag us down wanting to race the famous green dually. We went out to a empty road and ran them from 30. The dodge was ahead all the way till the pump cut the fuel. After we shut down we saw that they videotaped it. Got them to pullover and let us watch... it was priceless. You couldn't even hear the BMW since he had Jons pipe right in his window. . all you could here was the cummins and his blazing cusswords lol. To funny

Clark

 

[willyslover]

I've had good races but never a 40 mile one where I sustained 100+ for a long distance... that big HX40 was yelling at me . . more more lol

I think the passenger was his Dad. . looked old enough. . and boy was he grinning also. .

just wish I had replaced my clutch so I could slow down and pull him from lower RPM. . but had to keep it past the heavy torque curve. . he he

at the bottom of the best hill he was right on my bumper do to traffic, it turns into a four lane there. . I nailed it and slipped the clutch till I got to the governor. . he was WAY back there then. .