ANYONE have good results from the Steed Speed Manifolds yet?

Dustball8504 · Jan 22, 2013

Jhaddox said:
I'm in the same boat as you buddy when the truck is done it's goin up for sale and I'm prob buying some gasser trash...I'm tired of it being apart

Sent from my SCH-I535

Holy cow man, how long has yours been apart? It seems like forever now.

Hotrodtractor · Jan 22, 2013

bigrpowr said:
pretty sure youve been my voice of reason for 9 years lol...

Perhaps you should be more picky if I've been the voice of reason of all things. LOL

Just as long as you still plan on coming to events - we have drinking to catch up on.

Jhaddox · Jan 22, 2013

Dustball8504 said:
Holy cow man, how long has yours been apart? It seems like forever now.

It has been forever...since Oct 1 of 2011...beyond pissed with how long it took to get some of the parts I bought for it...that's half the reason I'm ready to sell it

Sent from my SCH-I535

Dzchey21 · Jan 22, 2013

Def not mass produced like small block Chevy parts

bigrpowr · Jan 22, 2013

Jhaddox said:
It has been forever...since Oct 1 of 2011...beyond pissed with how long it took to get some of the parts I bought for it...that's half the reason I'm ready to sell it

Sent from my SCH-I535

blame it on me !!! godzilla has been down bout the same amount of time, november of 11' , ran for a couple days though !!

blk350on20s · Jan 22, 2013

Holy cow. And i thought 5 months was bad

Hotrodtractor · Jan 22, 2013

blk350on20s said:
Holy cow. And i thought 5 months was bad

It took me 18 months of acquiring parts to built my 7.3 so it could run in the early months of 2007.

My Duramax has been down for right at a year while I go through the chassis and I ordered the first round of parts for the big stuff 6 months before I started and didn't get the last bits of the first order until 6 months ago.

It took me two years to get the custom plungers and barrels that I designed from a machine shop that specializes in plungers and barrels (by they time they are rough machined, hardened, ground, sent to Europe for a special coating, shipped back, and fit - all while lumping them into other batches of parts going through similar processes while the economy was in the ****ter) - keep in mind that I am the parts originator, its not like I ordered them through a shop and could just call up and complain - they are my baby.

Custom means long lead times and patience. These parts for these trucks are often crafted one at a time or in very small production runs that must be fit into a schedule for all the operations to be completed in a certain order - that takes time. Generally speaking no one pays enough to get things in the timeline they think it should take.

jdgleason · Jan 22, 2013

bigrpowr said:
blame it on me !!! godzilla has been down bout the same amount of time, november of 11' , ran for a couple days though !!

Ran GOOD for a couple days. Lol

gman1 · Jan 22, 2013

Fast-6.0 said:
We finally got a solid baseline on the Shorty truck so we install the revised speedsteeds this week and dyno next monday.

OK back on topic. What turbos were in the shorty truck when you did the baseline run?

Wayne · Jan 22, 2013

gman1 said:
OK back on topic. What turbos were in the shorty truck when you did the baseline run?

BIG. I'll let Tadd fill you in on the specs if he wants. With the setup this truck has, it's an excellent opportunity for these manifolds to show gains, at least with a VGT in the equation.

Wayne · Jan 22, 2013

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=360313294067846

Here's a vid of the pulls with stock manifolds & up pipes. To those without facebook, sorry if it doesn't work. Not my vid.

Corb@CorbinShipping · Jan 22, 2013

bigrpowr said:
yessir. im retiring from this great sport.

Damn...

Tree Trimmer · Jan 22, 2013

im assuming there comes a point where dollars to fun factor just gets out of control, and you found your personal limit??

Erikclaw · Jan 22, 2013

Hotrodtractor said:
It took me 18 months of acquiring parts to built my 7.3 so it could run in the early months of 2007.

My Duramax has been down for right at a year while I go through the chassis and I ordered the first round of parts for the big stuff 6 months before I started and didn't get the last bits of the first order until 6 months ago.

It took me two years to get the custom plungers and barrels that I designed from a machine shop that specializes in plungers and barrels (by they time they are rough machined, hardened, ground, sent to Europe for a special coating, shipped back, and fit - all while lumping them into other batches of parts going through similar processes while the economy was in the ****ter) - keep in mind that I am the parts originator, its not like I ordered them through a shop and could just call up and complain - they are my baby.

Custom means long lead times and patience. These parts for these trucks are often crafted one at a time or in very small production runs that must be fit into a schedule for all the operations to be completed in a certain order - that takes time. Generally speaking no one pays enough to get things in the timeline they think it should take.

Well that makes me feel a little better about not having mine since last May. Parts etc has been the worst part, they aren't like getting something for a chevy gas motor. It has tested my patience for sure and don't plan on doing something this different or drastic again.

I blame Mike for all of this. LOL

Not sure if I will be using the latest design of these manifolds or not. Will depend on Tadd's results for sure.

Wayne · Jan 23, 2013

gman1 said:
OK back on topic. What turbos were in the shorty truck when you did the baseline run?

Well, apparently the stats aren't too big of a deal. It has 70% (150 hp) nozzles, and Max power x compounds. It's actually theout set pictured on our website. Baseline hp is 897. There's still more on the table, but will require more tuning after the manifold tests are complete. Nice thing with the testing is manifolds and up pipes will be the ONLY changes.