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2006 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 3500 HD
A 1,200 HORSEPOWER 6.0L DRAG TRUCK BY JASON SANDS
friend of ours once said that racing a 6.0L Ford is like competiting in a sporting event with one arm tied behind your back. If that’s the case, then Matt Moroni’s mission of running in the ultra-competitive NHRDA Super Street class is like having both arms and one leg immobilized. Want to hear the crazy part? He’s got the goods to do it. With a fuelonly shakedown pass of 10.89 seconds in the quarter mile without tapping into his 300hp nitrous system, it’s clear that Matt and his Powerstroke aren’t playing games. In fact, the truck’s awesome 1,211rwhp dyno number is a record for 6.0L Fords. How did he build such a monster? We talked to him to find out.
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As it turns out, Matt’s obsession with making the “wrong” truck go fast didn’t start here. Before the truck you see on these pages, Matt raced a four-door Ford street truck,
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which again was powered by a 6.0L Power Stroke engine. Matt went through the normal progression of turbo and injector upgrades, before going into the big time with twins and some nitrous. Despite weighing in at nearly 4 tons, Matt’s bright orange 6.0L was able to lay down some serious quarter mile times, eventually running 11.30’s at more than 120mph on a healthy dose of squeeze. The nitrous-heavy passes were enough to get track officials to give him the boot for lack of safety equipment, so it was then that he decided to build a dedicated race effort. Since Matt did diesel work for a healthy group of buddies, he soon ran across the perfect candidate for a race truck via a friend--a well-worn regular cab 4x4, with a hydro-locked engine and a beat-up body. Once Matt got the forlorn Ford
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