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Ranger Drag Trucks

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How many are using your Ranger for Drag Racing?
We could post up what we got and little info about our trucks and our times.

I will start. 98 Ranger 308 with 289 iron heads, flat top pistons, flat tappet cam, Vic Jr intake
1 3/4 headers built by myself, 750 Demon carb. C-4 trans, 5.71 gears 28x10.5 slicks. Stock
suspension with slapper bars. Stock front suspension with 1 coil cut off the springs.
2960 with me in it. 1.60 7.51 at 90 mph in the 1/8th is the best time so far.
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Re: Ranger Drag Trucks

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i have a 1994 ext cab ranger with a 355 gear, 28 tall et streets. motor is a 347 13:1 comp,with some pro comp heads,750 carb,vr jr intake, 3500-3800 stall, c4, 1 3/4x 3 exhaust. best pass so far has been a 13.03 @96 mph. i been having transmission problems and now the motor got hot. the heads are bad now so i plan on getting some dart heads. i plan on going to a 9 inch with 430 gears and slicks

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13:1 ???
Either you have a seriously radical cam to tame that down or you only run really high octane fuel.
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Re: Ranger Drag Trucks

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the build is not a good combo. the cam is a tf cam .542/.563 the motor is from chp
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TFS Stage 1? That's an OK cam if it only ever sees race gas or E85. But premium pump gas has to ping like hell.

My engine's just barely 10:1 (iron heads) with a mild cam and it occasionally pings at relatively high load cruise (climbing hills when the bed is loaded with stuff from Lowes). Without load, I never notice the ping if it is there at all. But I tell you, it is so nice to load down that truck where the bed is loaded down to the tires and have the torque to take off and keep up with traffic like there's nothing back there...something the V6 never could do.
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Re: Ranger Drag Trucks

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I have never taken my truck to the track.. I have no clue what it will do in the 1/4.. I'm lucky if I put 2000 miles a year on it..
1986 Ranger with 1990 5.0 HO roller motor
Ported GT-40 heads
Duel plane air gap intake with 750cfm Holly
Paxton SN93 Supercharger with 3 1/2" pulley.
8 to 9psi of boost??
T-5 trans
Large tube shorty headers
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Re: Ranger Drag Trucks

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we ran it lean and hot. we had to much timing to. its going on the dyno before it goes back in the truck. also had a bad transmission. going to dart heads now. hoping to get a high 11 but if its faster that would be ok too.

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DANG!!!! That sucks. Did it hurt the block?
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the block needs to be decked.
my truck is track only
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What heads were those? The contour around the plug is unique.
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Re: Ranger Drag Trucks

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they are pro comp 210 cc head
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210cc. That's a BIG head. I wouldn't think a head like that would need to be on anything less than a 408w. That's a bit big for even a heavily boosted 302/331/347 isn't it?
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Re: Ranger Drag Trucks

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yeah alittle to big but with 13:1 comp i was thinking it would be good. im going with a dart 195 head now
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Re: Ranger Drag Trucks

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im going with a custom solid roller cam now. im changing a lot of other stuff to like im taking all the stock wiring out and rewiring the truck just for racing. if i cant get a low 12 or a high 11 in the 1/4 its going up for sell.
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Re: Ranger Drag Trucks

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I went out this past weekend and bettered my 1/8 th time. 7.40 with a 1.55 60 ft. I have made some changes throughout the year. I found that my Professional Products Vic jr knockoff had an air leak and it just kept getting worse so I tried a Performer 289 and ran as fast as the first intake. 7.55 So I came up with an old style torker that has not been ported and it really picked up. I also have been able to start leaning the carb down now since I don't have that air leak. Hoping for some 30s with the cooler weather coming up.
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