Cruise day.
@PabloCruise @Laughingjackal and I did a small shakedown trip in the cruisers.
Apparently the cruiser gods are biased.
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The Pig is cherry, plus it is running a 3FE/4spd combo. She scoots along quite well.
The 60 series has an Isuzu 4BD1T, intercooler SOA on 37's. a beast.
And of course, my BJ74 with a 13BT and holset. Hard to believe my 88 was the newest of the group.
This was the route. Just a quick drive to pull some hills and see how the 60 series would do as they are taking it to Black Hills Cruiser classic.
Altitude ranges from 4800 to start up to 8600 at the highest.
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Stopped in Laramie for breakfast. Yes those signs are on springs....yes, Wyoming is that windy.
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Heading out of Laramie we got quite the looks, and a few cell phone pictures of the cruiser parade. I grew up going to Laramie, the "big city" for groceries, always like it here, the wind not so much.
Beautiful weather, heading out of Laramie on i80 up the pass.
Heading up the hill, we had to slow down as some semi's were going 2 wide.
1080F EGT, 12psi at :
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This pass was a little slower up top as pablocruise's 3FE pig started feeling the effects of naturally aspirated engines at altitude. The turbo diesels went on like business as usual. Had boost and power left over for climbing in 5th.
Nice! I'll be heading down that stretch of 25 in a couple weeks on my way to texas