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Final Troubleshooting and Truck History

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Turbo LS '95 Chevy: Grandpa's Former Daily Driver Turns Into Drag Truck! (Test Hits with a Dragy)

What happens here

Upon further inspection, the team identifies a crucial issue that likely affected the earlier low-power runs: a small hose for the turbocharger's wastegate control was completely disconnected. This means the engine was not building proper boost pressure due to this oversight, explaining the 'lazy' performance. Reconnecting this hose is critical for proper wastegate function and achieving optimal boost. The team reflects on the truck's history, noting its evolution from a grandpa's vehicle to a mud truck, and finally, a drag racing machine, emphasizing its 'do more with less' philosophy.

Goal: Identify and correct a critical boost control issue.

Tools and materials

  • Custom Truck Chevrolet — The vehicle being inspected

What they say

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he's uh he's been out there grinding and punching through the youtube algorithm because you know when you've got a tiny channel it just does not want to help you get views for the longest time as i get mobbed by a moth about the same place i was at when i was back here in june did the first video about this truck which explains the whole backstory this was his grandpa's truck his grandpa bought it new drove it forever dillon beat the crap out of it as a mud truck and somehow it evolved into this but if you want to hear all that story you can go way back on my channel feed and see that one but you gotta go to his channel and check that out because this man is full of a lot of information one of few people that i go to for perspective on things like this yeah because there's just not a whole lot of us doing this stuff yeah so i mean so i pretty much this entire story of this truck has summed up with like do more with less it's always been like over traction and underpowered and overweight compared to everything that i'm racing so i have to make best of that and that's been the strategy all along and finally i'm making some horse torques to do more llama thrusting i remember you're just having all kinds of problems with this thing you were messing up motors just as often as i was messing up transmissions and then suddenly it just seemed like earlier this year everything just clicked and you just started little pieces started connecting where they needed to be you just started kicking ass out of nowhere yeah well i got you know i want to call it lucky but like we won a couple of weekends in a row and until last weekend i had won like my previous 14 pairs i had 14 heads up pairs of racing i had won until last weekend there you go go check them out hit that subscribe button here too if you're watching this and you watch this far and you're not subscribed to me i don't know what you're doing you're doing it wrong you're doing it wrong make sure you subscribe to me leave a comment if there's anything you want to know about this truck um i will make sure that he goes into my comments and answers your questions so you're very good about that all the forums and stuff so check it out make a comment ask questions good questions bad questions he'll tell you his favorite color you know what his first dog's name was any of that stuff doesn't have to be about the truck he will he'll talk to you so we'll see you

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