I have a stock 2005 ram 2500 5.9 single cab lwb, stock other than a fass 165 and typical gages. Boost, EGT, Fuel PSI.
I would like to make the truck a fun street truck, its not a daily driver but a toy. Take it out on weekends. Will never haul anything with it. The truck has 250k miles, nothing really major wrong with it other than it needs the head gone through from leaky valve seals and trans cooler is leaking. I have about 30k I want to put in the truck. I will do all the wrenching myself. Ive spent the last two months assembling tools from engine stand, torque wrenches, trans jack, bore gages and micrometers. I will never take this truck to a track( I Think ). There are a few areas I'm very indecisive on at this point. One being the rods and the other being the cam. Is it worth the time and money to put a 188/220 in and run the risk of having clearance issues and needing to cut pistons or should I just leave it stock. Same with the rods, is it worth it to pull them and put in say some wagler street fighters or just stick with stock. I know the engine is a little broke in at this point and probable running a little looser than stock tolerances on things which is more ideal for high hp builds.
For the time i just plan to run a single 467.7 due to budget, but ultimately I'd like to have a 467/488 setup.
Would you take the time now to put new rods in along with the cam, or put that money into other areas of the build and do rods and cam when it comes time for compounds.
ultimate goal somewhere down the road is a 1k hp build
I dont want to roal coal
Just want a fun truck that stomp on some of the local cars time to time
mm3 not sure on who yet
467.7 Stainless Diesel
Hamilton 103# Valve Springs
Hamilton ED Pushrods
Arp 625's
Stainless Diesel 2nd gen manifold
exergy or ddp injectors and cp3 ( 150's with a 12mil single)
I was thinking about tackling the trans myself, but i think im just going to take it to firepunk and get a stage 2 or 3 48re
Mish intercooler and trans cooler ( would i also need an auxiliary
trans cooler?)
Billet Freeze plugs, probably the power driven diesel ones.
needs a new fuel rail with feed lines
needs new trans lines
new ac condenser
Anyway, with budget being the limiter here. Would just like to get some opinions on what route to take from the start to set things up for the future. I've emailed and asked a couple bigger named companies and honestly I feel like they just threw a list of parts down at random. Like you should run this big compound setup but don't do rods or studs.. :bang I feel like the best advice I've gotten from anyone has been trans builders I've spoken to.
Its my first diesel build, its a lot of money ( to me ) so I want to skin this cat right. I was going to start this project already but postponed it bc of being so unsure on what route to take. Anyway sorry for the long post, thanks for any advice.
semper,
I would like to make the truck a fun street truck, its not a daily driver but a toy. Take it out on weekends. Will never haul anything with it. The truck has 250k miles, nothing really major wrong with it other than it needs the head gone through from leaky valve seals and trans cooler is leaking. I have about 30k I want to put in the truck. I will do all the wrenching myself. Ive spent the last two months assembling tools from engine stand, torque wrenches, trans jack, bore gages and micrometers. I will never take this truck to a track( I Think ). There are a few areas I'm very indecisive on at this point. One being the rods and the other being the cam. Is it worth the time and money to put a 188/220 in and run the risk of having clearance issues and needing to cut pistons or should I just leave it stock. Same with the rods, is it worth it to pull them and put in say some wagler street fighters or just stick with stock. I know the engine is a little broke in at this point and probable running a little looser than stock tolerances on things which is more ideal for high hp builds.
For the time i just plan to run a single 467.7 due to budget, but ultimately I'd like to have a 467/488 setup.
Would you take the time now to put new rods in along with the cam, or put that money into other areas of the build and do rods and cam when it comes time for compounds.
ultimate goal somewhere down the road is a 1k hp build
I dont want to roal coal
Just want a fun truck that stomp on some of the local cars time to time
mm3 not sure on who yet
467.7 Stainless Diesel
Hamilton 103# Valve Springs
Hamilton ED Pushrods
Arp 625's
Stainless Diesel 2nd gen manifold
exergy or ddp injectors and cp3 ( 150's with a 12mil single)
I was thinking about tackling the trans myself, but i think im just going to take it to firepunk and get a stage 2 or 3 48re
Mish intercooler and trans cooler ( would i also need an auxiliary
trans cooler?)
Billet Freeze plugs, probably the power driven diesel ones.
needs a new fuel rail with feed lines
needs new trans lines
new ac condenser
Anyway, with budget being the limiter here. Would just like to get some opinions on what route to take from the start to set things up for the future. I've emailed and asked a couple bigger named companies and honestly I feel like they just threw a list of parts down at random. Like you should run this big compound setup but don't do rods or studs.. :bang I feel like the best advice I've gotten from anyone has been trans builders I've spoken to.
Its my first diesel build, its a lot of money ( to me ) so I want to skin this cat right. I was going to start this project already but postponed it bc of being so unsure on what route to take. Anyway sorry for the long post, thanks for any advice.
semper,
