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    tired of losing to my bros lightning

    i am sick and tired of always going to meets and cruses with my bro and him always kicken my ass in his lightning. granted he has built his pretty nice and mine only has a few bolt on's. but still im sick of losing. guess ill just have to start dropping some real bucks in my truck to start making a difference.

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    Start with a tune (recommend Nelson tune) and go from there. What bolt-on's do you have currently?

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    They can be beat. This website proved that. What does your brother run if I may ask?

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    to bad you're in Socal, i would tell you a meet to come visit where he wouldnt beat some chevy trucks
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    i only have k&n cool air intake, full 3.5 inch exhaust, bottom pulley and shorty headers ( currently looking for long tubes cause the ones i got suck).

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    my brother has custom intake with full ported and polished blower, smaller top and bigger bottom pulley. long tubes with true duel exhaust. full tune. jasper tranny with newly built rear end. ported and polished heads. hes running around 17 to 18 pounds of boost right now. and hes about to pull his motor to get full bottom end rebuild.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GRsilverado View Post
    my brother has custom intake with full ported and polished blower, smaller top and bigger bottom pulley. long tubes with true duel exhaust. full tune. jasper tranny with newly built rear end. ported and polished heads. hes running around 17 to 18 pounds of boost right now. and hes about to pull his motor to get full bottom end rebuild.

    Sounds slow...and like i said in the other post he would get owned by a few of us here in Dallas
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    Quote Originally Posted by GRsilverado View Post
    my brother has custom intake with full ported and polished blower, smaller top and bigger bottom pulley. long tubes with true duel exhaust. full tune. jasper tranny with newly built rear end. ported and polished heads. hes running around 17 to 18 pounds of boost right now. and hes about to pull his motor to get full bottom end rebuild.
    I dont think a lot of you guys are seeing all the mods that the L has done to it.

    With his truck being a NA 4.8 he will need a power adder to beat it
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    Quote Originally Posted by mean05 View Post
    I dont think a lot of you guys are seeing all the mods that the L has done to it.

    With his truck being a NA 4.8 he will need a power adder to beat it
    It's a lightning. I'm assuming he can't drive worth a...

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    Quote Originally Posted by pl4yboy View Post
    It's a lightning. I'm assuming he can't drive worth a...
    they are also auto's....it's not hard to drive a auto
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