The fastest one for me was a Dodge dually built for pulling I had for a short time. I didn't really want it, but I got a big salting job in the late fall one year and needed a 4wd dually to put a new spreader in. It was one of my friends and I knew it would work. I don't know what all was done to the motor, but it was unbelievably fast. Especially from 50mph and up, it would pull reallllly hard. It had air lockers and the whole deal. I sold it because it didn't really fit in with the rest of my stuff. I was thinking about this because last week I found and bought an 8.1 gasser in a regular cab 4wd GMC. Probably the fastest gasser 4wd I've been in. Almost 500 cubes and not a lot of weight. It wants to move. I know weird topic, but how about you guys...
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Bryce Frazier
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A guy up here had an early 80's 1 ton chevy, flat bed. He hauled a 28 foot goose neck with like 12 or 14 round bales on it EVERY DAY for feeding!
He didn't like the power that the 454 had, so he beefed it up a little, and swapped it over to propane.....
WOW.... That thing could be fully loaded and run 65 up this big grade a little farther North! A fully loaded log truck can't get above about 50 on it, and that is just screaming for those things, he could walk away from cars on the hill if he was empty...
Amazing truck to say the least!
Fastest thing I have ever been in is a brand new, 2014 Chevy ZL1 Camaro.... Dad and I pulled out of the shop, and within about 30 feet, he had it up to 60, it red lined at 7500 or so, and he was still in 1st gear!
HOLY #$%^ that is F A S T!!!!
He didn't like the power that the 454 had, so he beefed it up a little, and swapped it over to propane.....
WOW.... That thing could be fully loaded and run 65 up this big grade a little farther North! A fully loaded log truck can't get above about 50 on it, and that is just screaming for those things, he could walk away from cars on the hill if he was empty...
Amazing truck to say the least!
Fastest thing I have ever been in is a brand new, 2014 Chevy ZL1 Camaro.... Dad and I pulled out of the shop, and within about 30 feet, he had it up to 60, it red lined at 7500 or so, and he was still in 1st gear!
HOLY #$%^ that is F A S T!!!!
Super Trucker
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A friend had a 86 Ford F250 with 44" Super Swamper Boggers on it . Had a Holbrook built 460 with a shot on it. The only truck I ever saw that size that could drift the the top of test hill at Silver Lake sand dunes. It would out run most rails up there. Funny thing was it was all iron no aluminum except intake. He decided to take it to the next level and took the engine back for some help 10yrs to the day. Old man Holbrook opened it up check the clearances and asked if it ever was started.
He ended up getting another block and a set of A460 heads and a little stroke and 557 cubes later YEEEEEE HAWWWWWW!
He ended up getting another block and a set of A460 heads and a little stroke and 557 cubes later YEEEEEE HAWWWWWW!
Goose
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It wasn't a 4wd, but back in the day I had a '75 GMC crew cab dually with a 454, headers, and dual pipes.
Someone had been in that engine. It definitely had a lumpy idle, for one thing. I needed some automatic choke parts for it, and the parts that fit came from a '69 Chevelle high performance 396 with a factory cast iron high rise intake. I had to overhaul it once 'cause the oil pump shaft broke and it spun a couple of rod bearings before I got it shut down. I could not find one single mark on the camshaft. Nada. Even stock factory cams have casting marks on them.
I don't know what it would top out at, but I once got bored on a long stretch of road at 65mph and pushed down on the throttle. Seemed like I was instantly going about 95, then 100. And still had quite a bit of throttle. I let it run 100 for a few miles and backed off 'cause I was rapidly coming to a town.
Someone had been in that engine. It definitely had a lumpy idle, for one thing. I needed some automatic choke parts for it, and the parts that fit came from a '69 Chevelle high performance 396 with a factory cast iron high rise intake. I had to overhaul it once 'cause the oil pump shaft broke and it spun a couple of rod bearings before I got it shut down. I could not find one single mark on the camshaft. Nada. Even stock factory cams have casting marks on them.
I don't know what it would top out at, but I once got bored on a long stretch of road at 65mph and pushed down on the throttle. Seemed like I was instantly going about 95, then 100. And still had quite a bit of throttle. I let it run 100 for a few miles and backed off 'cause I was rapidly coming to a town.
Ken Macfarlane
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Uncles got a 2012 4wd dually Dodge diesel with tuner, deletes, big exhaust etc etc. 520-550 ish hp and gobs of torque. Feels like a giant sports car.
Brendon-KS
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- Goessel, KS
The GMC Syclone from the early 90's had the fastest 0 to 60 time that I'm aware of for production pickups. The car mags got it into the low 4 second range.
DENNIS MIN
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Oliverguy,
My 2010 ram stick cummins 4x4 is about the slowest vehicle I know of.
Wait for engine to rev, wait to accelerate, wait for engine to wind down, wait to shift, wait for engine response, wait, wait, wait. Unhappy with the delay responses, kind of used to cabled engines; not requesting permission from electronics.
Same response regardless of load.
Different than your question, though.
D.
My 2010 ram stick cummins 4x4 is about the slowest vehicle I know of.
Wait for engine to rev, wait to accelerate, wait for engine to wind down, wait to shift, wait for engine response, wait, wait, wait. Unhappy with the delay responses, kind of used to cabled engines; not requesting permission from electronics.
Same response regardless of load.
Different than your question, though.
D.
DENNIS MIN
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Early B,
You sound like some outcast cousins of mine, they know how to have fun!
D.
You sound like some outcast cousins of mine, they know how to have fun!
D.
Cowmechanic
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Not the fastest 4x4 but it does ok.1983 Dodge Ramcharger with a 5.9 cummins .
Pair-a-dice farm
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The fastest 4x4 that I've rode in was a 2012 F250 6.7 diesel. The fastest truck that I've owned was a '71 Chevy C10. I don't know how fast it would go but it would wrap the speedometer past 100mph and back to 5mph. It had a 300+hp 350 and got 9mpg any way I drove it.
What'll it run in a 1/4 mile or 0-60, I have a guy that has a 6.7 powersteoke with a chip that really wants to race me bad, but told him not tell it warms up because I don't drive my srt10 in the winter, I'm not worried about beating him, but he thinks he's gonna show me up easily, but I also think I just have a 4.7 or a 5.7 under the hood.
Brendon-KS
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Car and Driver ran a preview article in the Nov 1990 issue where they clocked the Syclone at 4.3 seconds on dry pavement and 4.6 in the rain. This was the test I was remembering.
the tractor vet
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My 73 F250 Ford with one of the last 428 S/CJ's With the limited slip in the ft. and the Detroit locker in the rear in four high it would smoke all four 12/16.5's thru second .
My 70 Toyota was pretty fast before it got totaled. Youngest son clipped the guard rail at the Kempton Drags. I won many drags at East Coast 4 Wheel Drive events over the past 30 yrs. I ran a full race Buick 231 V6 engine and saginaw four speed trans. Now a days I run all the guts from the Toyota in a 1970 Jeep Commando. Grandson and I are working on it now in preparation for this yrs events. It will be fun this summer.
Cowmechanic
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Not the fastest 4x4 but it does ok.1983 Dodge Ramcharger with a 5.9 cummins .
Steve@Advance
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Den, that is impressive!
"Here Bubba, hold my beer and watch this!" LOL
"Here Bubba, hold my beer and watch this!" LOL
Super Trucker did that guy ever happen to take that truck to Central Michigan dragway in Stanton Michigan for a test and tune session? I think I might have talked to him. A buddy and myself were up there with our mustangs and right behind us on the next pass was a F-250 4x4 that looked fairly unassuming until we heard it run through the traps. Sounded like a ten second super pro car. We went over and talked to him. It had 33 inch tires but he said it usually had 40's and he usually ran it at the dunes in silver lake. Seems like the truck was 528 cubic inches and has Blue Thunder aluminum heads with the Chevy exhaust port style and a 300 hp nitrous system that he didn't use that day.It was cold and windy out and the truck was extremely squirrley on the tires it was running. He just said he always wanted to run it. It was extremely dangerous, his trap speeds were very high at over 120 mph and his et was only in the low 13,s. The truck was so powerful it was unreal. I never forgot seeing that. I can't imagine what et he could have run if he wanted to be serious about it. Probably in the low 10's in a 5500 lb truck.
I had a 71 GMC 3/4 ton 4x4, 307, 4 speed, 4.56 rear the thing was a beast. As someone else said the speedometer only went to 100 but you could twist it back around past the MPH on the bottom and start over. Fastest I saw was a neighbor with early 70's 1/2 ton chevy I think it had a 427 with a sixpac (three dueces) and ran in the low 12's in the quarter, one day something happened to one of the carbs, spilled gas on engine and it burned up.
NoNewParts
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topspeed or fast?
'fastest' ones I've owned
69 Ford F250 4x4, manual trans, warmed over 390.
not much topspeed, but would get there very quickly...and very violently.
Vehicle 'leaping' forward could get quite literal.
(good truck, I eventually rolled it )
-almost a pickup-
2nd place 69-70(can't remember)? Bronco with a manual shifted 302. very quick, very light (NE rust claimed that one)
and surprisingly....(adds fuel to the old vs new debate)...
2007 4x4 GMC Sierra 1500 reg cab 8' box with the iron block 5.3L V8, auto trans with 3.73 gears.(don't like auto's, so it's gone now)
Being an old drag racer, I was impressed every time I put my foot in it.
'fastest' ones I've owned
69 Ford F250 4x4, manual trans, warmed over 390.
not much topspeed, but would get there very quickly...and very violently.
Vehicle 'leaping' forward could get quite literal.
(good truck, I eventually rolled it
)-almost a pickup-
2nd place 69-70(can't remember)? Bronco with a manual shifted 302. very quick, very light (NE rust claimed that one)
and surprisingly....(adds fuel to the old vs new debate)...
2007 4x4 GMC Sierra 1500 reg cab 8' box with the iron block 5.3L V8, auto trans with 3.73 gears.(don't like auto's, so it's gone now)
Being an old drag racer, I was impressed every time I put my foot in it.
T in NE
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- Cambridge, Nebraska
That speed was set on an oval track somewhere in Michigan. Actual top speed would be higher.
That was also a 'flying mile'. Timed a lap after it got up to speed.
Diesel power ran around 150 in a highly modified duramax while pulling a small trailer.
Fastest pick up at Bonneville would be Gale Banks' sidewinder Dakota. Cummins powered it towed its own support trailer to the salt flats.
That was also a 'flying mile'. Timed a lap after it got up to speed.
Diesel power ran around 150 in a highly modified duramax while pulling a small trailer.
Fastest pick up at Bonneville would be Gale Banks' sidewinder Dakota. Cummins powered it towed its own support trailer to the salt flats.
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