Another Question re: your post. Does any one out there have a web address
(or even a phone number) for Kammer & Kammer?
Thanks!
Bob K.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: DML: The Lightning is bad news.
>
>
>On Thu, 13 May 1999 fawcett@uism.bu.edu wrote:
>
>> I'm confused (as usual :-) about all this lighting stuff... Don't they
have a
>> factory installed blower on 'em?? So comparing one to a Dak is comparing
>> apples to oranges, no? If the above is correct how do you think your Dak
would
>> compare if it had a blower? --just curious.
>> Thanks.
>> Tom
>>
>
> Yep, it does have a factory installed blower. (Its an Eaton.) I don't
>know what the specs and such are on the blower, and I don't know what
>else is different from a vanilla F-150 (well, I know the exhaust is
>different, but I don't know what else). I can definitely say that if I
>put a blower on my Dak, I would eat him alive, but I've also got some
>other mods. I ran 16.0 stock, so if you figure on getting a second out
>of a blower, that would only drop me down to 15; he'd still be a second
>faster. I've got a club cab, so I'm heavier than a RC Dak, but the F-150
>is a full size truck...
>
> Its a lot of money though... If I wanted to start from scratch to get
>a brand new sport truck, I'd probably go with a RC Dakota sport with the
>3.91 rearend with a 5.2L V8 ($15-18K?), then yank the 318 and have Kammer
>& Kammer build a new 360. ($4-5K?) For $19-23K, you could be running
>12's on the motor (At least a full second faster than the Lightning)
>and for about $10,000 less. Spend an extra $1K for the little blue
>bottle and you're running a full 2 seconds faster than the Lightning. :-)
>Or, if you consider that cheating, spend $5K on a blower. You're still
>about $5K cheaper than the Lightning.) You could even sell the stock
>318 to recoup some of the costs, if you wanted to. ($2K?)
>
>
> -Jon-
>
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