SEMA 2022

 

 

The first test drive with the new suspension, and the suspension was a big improvement over the older one. We did have some other things that need worked on that we found out on the drive. The truck never really ran very well with the EZ Fast fuel injection that we installed. We check and rechecked everything from the fuel supply to the wiring and still had no luck. Of courses I had purchased it at the beginning of the build which was about seven years ago. Did some research and found out that a lot of people where having similar problems with the first generation. I had heard good things about the Sniper EFI and decided to switch out the EZ Fast EFI. The install and setup was much easier then the EZ Fast system and a lot more friendly to operate. It started up and started learning on the first try. The only issue that we had was getting IAC setup, which caused the idle to be erratic. Once we had ICA adjusted correctly the idle smooth out. Haven't got a ton of miles on the truck yet but have been happy with the Sniper setup so far. The other major problem was fuel delivery. We would drive for about thirty minutes and the truck would run out of fuel. Having two tanks I would switch over to the other tank and it would start right up and then it would run out of fuel. Both tanks had external fuel pumps and where installed below the gas tanks. Thinking that we had a vapor lock problem we decided to put in in-tank fuel pumps, a bigger fuel switch valve, larger return lines, and larger fuel line to see if that would fix the issue. After making the changes we haven't seen any problems in the fuel delivery. My advice if your going to make the switch to EFI is find a way to use in-tank pumps in your system. Overall the truck has been running fairly well, but as always there could be some more tweaking done to make it run perfect.  

After getting the shop dust off.

Bob and his son Josh from Silver Creek Auto Body came over get us all polished up before show.

Cleaned up and ready to be loaded up on the trailer.

Leaving town and only 936 miles to go. Chris keeping a eye on what's following us.
 

Just a few thousand feet above the little town of Austin Nevada.

My good friend Jim from my high school days lives in Las Vegas and let us campout at his house till SEMA. Gave us a chance to get things cleaned up from the road trip.

It's midnight and time to head home. In conclusion the best part of being at the show was the attendees  feed back on the truck. We heard a lot of people saying that this was the coolest thing at the show and that it was amazing to look at all the details that went into it.