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But it is fun when you get it out. I have sat at the starting line maybe sixteen times looking down a smooth wide two mile runway waiting to be waved off. It is or of the most exciting feeling there is going down the track at wide open throttle watching the tach rise until the transmission shifts into the next gear. You lose all aspect of speed and at 136 MPH and then when you go through the speed traps and let the chassis unload and get on the brakes and the truck never even breaths hard, so to speak. You can tell through your seat of the pants dyno when you have made a good run. My new custom torque converter came in yesterday after being lost for a week because of the snowy weather, can't wait to get it installed and make a couple of test runs .

Does anyone else drive another car/truck primarily instead of your SSS and what is your go to vehicle? Also approximately how many miles do you drive your special truck per year? Me around 2,000 or less now.

Here is another question I have wondered about. I bought my truck when it was 1 1/2 yrs. old and it listed for a little over $40,000.00. The 2003 models were somewhat limited were they heavily discounted when new or like some special editions did they sell for sticker or even over ie. the early 90'S ZR1 Corvette which sold for as much as ten grand over sticker and locked up with the owners expecting a big return on their investment. In this area you can buy a less than 10,000 mile example for $30,000.00 + or -?

For the record mine is a black 2003 that just turned over to 53,000 miles and we are the holder of six standing mile landspeed records on the Maxton Mile in NC. and on the Ohio Mile in Wilmington. I wax it once a month and the only time it has been rained on was on the road to Ohio. I have three other hotrods but my SSS is my favorite and there is no need to drive it in the rain when I have something else easier to clean up and gets better gas mileage!

Beautiful setup a showplace, I love the way you finished everything off on the interior. A garage doesn't have to be a dark dingy place.

There are a few good car shows on Velocity and there are a few good ones that come on the Discovery Channel that are fairly realistic. Can't remember the name of the one where They are training apprentices at So-Cal. HotRods. I guess with Speed Channel gone we have lost HotRod TV and specials like the Optima Battery a Challenge, Drag Week, a Power Tour etc.

Hello Aerosys from a fellow Georgian, we had 4" of Snow on Tuesday and yesterday AM it was -1 on my deck and this morning 16 degrees , love the sunny south.

Thank you Aaron for turning the sows ear into a silk purse. The picture of my SSS parked outside was taken down at my Dad's Memorial Day weekend last May. He was a three time decorated for bravery machine gunner with the 10TH Mountain Division in Italy and later Germany during WWll and he passed away that day.

Thanks for the offer but hopefully if my pictures can be worked with they will be posted soon.

No volunteer to post my pictures for me?

If you will send me your email address I will send pictures to you and I would appreciate it if you would post them for me. 3 1/2 years ago I had three strokes within a month. I had to relearn everything but one lingering effect is the inability to comprehend or follow written or verbal instructions. I have had people say download pictures to a photobucket account and then it would be easy to do. I have three Grandchildren who are computer geniuses and can post a picture on Facebook in two minutes but they can't post them on this forum or other forums. I have spent dozen of hours trying to post pictures just to fail each time. Think about it, I don't want anyone to think I am making any of this stuff up but I would also take pride sharing pictures of my rides with others that would appreciate them. Thanks, Garrell

My SSS stays garaged and is gotten out every three weeks or so I n good weather and driven locally just to limber it up. Then it makes two trips per year to Wilmington Ohio to landspeed race on the Ohio Mile, then it goes to a dragstrip four times a year about 60 miles away. Total Mileage 52,000. 1998 C5 Corvette coupe with 21,000 fair weather miles, shown and to the dragstrip four times a year, modified to around 420 flywheel HP 1969 RS SS Indy Pacecar Camaro convertible, it has always been garaged but it need a lite restoration ie. engine gone through, paint buffed out and detailed to show later this year when my health gets better. 1997 72,000 mile Pontiac Formula W/Bandit ll ground effects and graphics. LT1 engine with headers, 3" exhaust, Moroso CAI, Arizona Speed and Marine mass airflow sensor and throttle body, tuneup, Hotchkis shock tower brace, subframe connectors, stabilizer bars shocks and springs. Dailey driver, may try it at the track to see what it will run and if I can find a place may try Autocross with it. Family car is my Wife's Chrysler van and if weather is really bad and I need to run errands I drive it. *Drove two legs of HotRod Powertour last year in SSS and it holds six landspeed records. I know most of you drive trucks a lot faster than mine but that would probably put you in a Landspeed class against other vehicles running 180 to 230 MPH. Oh, in last years July a HotRod Magazine the article started off about me and the last three paragraphs were about me. I set my first record on the Maxton Mile eight months after getting out of a wheelchair which I had been in for two years and Doctors told my family I would never be any better.

Sorry misunderstood I thought I saw where you were offering a rebuild for $95.00 through Feb. 28. Anyway I want to use your service but I want to wait until after the end of April. Got some medical test coming up that I need to see what the results are and if I can get things straightened out I am going landspeed racing the end of April in Wilmington, Ohio.

Steve could I send you a check for the Feb. 28 special and get a receipt and send the cluster to you at a date to be determined later, I am a baseball fan? Do you offer the same service for a 98 Corvette, all gages work fine but it has a black DIC panel.

Great, thanks lots

I know it was/is a widespread problem but how many of you have had to replace your instrument cluster? I lost my temp gage first and put in a Autometer temp gage now I have been driving by my tach to judge speed. I have thought about putting a gage pod down the left A post or member and wondered if anyone makes a quality GPS speed detection devise for this application. All my other gages are working fine and the mileage records accurately even though it looks like I am running 100 MPH down an off ramp.

Hey I used to use the carb cleaner method to find a leak around a carburetor or a cast iron or an aluminum intake. Thanks

Thanks I just wish I had found the forum and asked for opinions before I started making decisions on my own and then found out my tuner didn't have a dyno to accomodate an extended cab AWD truck!

If you are familiar with my problem of losing maybe 8 to 10 MPH after a cam and intake change something occurred to me today when I drove my truck. When I crank it warm or cold it cranks right up immediately like it always has but without my foot on the accelerater it revs to almost 2,000 RPM' and immediately drops down to the normal idle speed of around 900 RPM. It started this as soon as I picked it up from the Speedshop, I called the next day and the next day drove I drove the 45 miles back to the shop and told them I thought there was a vacuum leak. They hooked the laptop up and tweaked the tuneup and cranked the truck several times then we went down the road and made a couple of WOT runs then repeat the same procedure. They finally got it to where it only revved to 1,700-1,800 RPM and they told me that they used this same cam quite often in late model Camaros and it made 45 rear wheel HP on the dyno and one of the characteristics of the grind was to rev high when it first cranked then drop back down to normal hour. These people have been around and have an impeccable record. They did work on my Corvette with never a problem and of course they could dyno it. I wish I could turn back time and never have changed the cam and I can 't afford right now without going into our IRA's or CD 's which I have never do to support my hotroding habit. If the immediate rev up on cranking is okay for this cam so be it, I really need to know so think about it and let me know. Thanks

If anyone would be so kind and send me your email address and let me send you pictures of my truck and post them for me I would appreciate it very much. Thank you

I don't know Andrew but he is in my prayers, on three different occasions a Doctors have told my Wife that I had maybe a10% chance of living and each time through prayer I survived so I pray the same for Andrew.

A little over three years ago I had a heart attack which was followed within a month by three strokes that put me in a wheelchair for two years and totally unable to care for myself. Worse than that thought I suffered 100% memory loss, everything didn't know my Wife two Daughters, five Grandchildren anyone. I also forgot how to do anything like work the TV remote. I have had to relearn everything like driving which I learned in the high school parking lot. Doctors told my family I would never get any better or walk again but I hated the wheelchair so bad and someone having to do everything for me that I made up a long series of therapy exercises to loosen frozen joints and stretch and strengthen muscles. It takes abought two hours to complete the total workout which I still do until this day. I broke and set the first of six landspeed records eight months after I got out of the wheelchair. I have read volumes of books car and gun magazines how to's etc. I learned to operate my laptop fairly good and my family bought me an I-Phone and an I-Pad which I just get by on but a lot of the terminology I don't understand. Until recently I bought collectible quality Colt and Smith&Wesson revolvers at online auctions and advertised them for resale on the Colt and S&W forums where good pictures were a must. With much practice I got to where I could take pretty good pictures but I read over and over the instructions and would spend hours trying to post pictures but with no success and I had a friend that would post the pictures for me. He even drove fifty miles out to our home and sat beside me on the sofa and showed me how to post pictures with me taking notes and asking questions. His tail lights had not got out of sight and I had no idea what he had said or shown me. I don't know how many times I have been told to download my pictures to my photobucket account and do whatever else you told me to do but one of the lingering effects of the strokes is the inability to comprehend written or verbal instructions. Oh, today I walk by leaning heavily on my custom walking stick more due to my Parkinson's Desease and Rheumatoid Arthritis than to strokes. I will be glad to email pictures to anyone that would like to see them, I don't want anyone to think I made any of this up. If you get HotRod Magazine the article that covered the Ohio Mile in July of 2012 started off about me and the last three paragraphs ended the article discussing me, something I was very proud of. Thanks

While I have been an owner for almost a decade I just became active as a member of this forum over the past few weeks and it or should I say it's members have been very informative. I have a 51,000 mile 2003 SS Silverado that is occasionally driven on the street and landspeed raced on two mile airport runways timed in a standing mile and run on a dragstrip probably four times per year. After spending several thousand dollars to gain what everyone agrees should have been around 75 HP my topend speed slowed up almost five MPH making it possibly 8 to as much as 10 MPH off on the top end. That's where forum members stopped up and gave me a lesson in Torque Convertors 101. 2003 SS Silverado, Volant Cold Air Kit, Comp Cams cam and rockers kit with heavy wall pushrods, FAST LSXrt intake W/ported 90 MM throttle body, BBK headers, Doug's Headers electric cutouts, Trifold tonno covers, HP Tuneup, Black Billet grille, smoked covers on all lights, 6.0 Billet badges and red hockey stripe, red pinstripe, Billet Bow in grille and Bow tie in the center of factory wheels painted to match hockey stripe, Edge Racing custom built torque converter will be installed by end of next week and tuneup will be tweaked at that time. Holder of six landspeed records under the sanction of the East Coast Timing Association. Inside of every old man is a young man wondering What The Hell Happened!

I have appointment in two weeks to have my Edge Converter installed and I will call tomorrow and schedule tentatively an appointment with my tuner a few days later. The first Show. N Go is the third week of April and I have enough time slips from that track to get a good comparison of whether my truck is making more power than it did before the cam/intake change . But I got to thinking I am used to brake holding to around 1,800 RPM'S, do I still do that or even higher and it will be easier to do. When landspeed racing you still want to leave hard to achieve maximum speed in each gear so as to go through the speed traps at the fastest speed possible so I still brake hold but the difference is reaction isn't important. You could sit there two minutes and adjust your helmet if you wanted but you might get the wave off with the finger about the the third time from the starter.