2012 Ram 1500 12V Conversion

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maxwedgehead

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I feel like its been a long time since I've posted a thread here, but someone on the book face asked if I would post some sort of build thread here and here it is!

For the background story, I built the third gen 1500 8 years ago and I always thought it would be neat to revamp it with a fourth gen body. So around may I ended up buying this 2012 1500 that was sporting a Procharger along with a forged and rammed 5.7L hemi. According to the guy I bought it from this truck was actually owned by Procharger to build the fourth gen kits off of, it only has 78k miles.

So I pulled my drivetrain out and decided to sell the 3rd gen roller to a good friend of mine who will be putting it back together to race ODSS 7.70.

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Ended up keeping my wheels!
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Washing 8 years of grime of the old 12v
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Decided to go all out with Keating covers
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Front view Mounted

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Building the wiring harness
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Wiring harness getting loomed up! I spend a lot of timing on wiring because its one of my more favorite parts of the build, mostly because its one thing most people aren't the greatest at making look good,
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Gaining on the engine bay

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Trans is home built with goerend master kit, TCS input, DPC triple disk, FMVB ETC. We did it about 7.5 years ago. I'm not fixing what isn't broke! Went with the Derale cooler setup from Firepunk with their brackets. Also added the semi oil temp sensor to the trans pan so I could have a working trans temp gauge on the factory cluster.


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One of my customers is starting a custom fab business, so since he uses me for dirt work, and I built his shop pad. I figured I could be his first customer.
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Finished engine bay pics! I wanted to do something different than I have before so we went all black/billet/stainless under the hood. I think it turned out great. Let me know what you guys think of my work! Keep in mind I tried to stick to a budget build like I did 8 years ago when I couldn't afford much! All gauges including RPM gauge work!
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Ended up going with some black OEM projector head lights, and a regular cowl hood!
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Dam that is sharp, I really like it. How hard was it to get the factory gauges working? Assuming tach was the hardest?
 
badass..i could never get the elec part to work.....i can make it look good but making it work is different story...lol
 
biggy238 said:
That's sexy, and the blue one is sexy


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Haha thanks man! I race it in 6.70 index at the moment.

thatguy69 said:
Dam that is sharp, I really like it. How hard was it to get the factory gauges working? Assuming tach was the hardest?
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Tach is always the hardest, it works just fine until you rev it over 2k rpm cause it’s looking for a cam signal… so working on getting a binary guy to fix it.

bateman said:
I was hoping you would post up here. Slick work man
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I figured I might as well!

Phooker said:
So you're who Ken bought his halfton from.
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You would be correct, that’s my old truck! I was only willing to sell it to him, if I hadn’t we were gonna hot saw it down the middle and hang it on the wall of the shop :hehe:
 
Meyers Farms said:
Thanks for stopping by and posting. That is a sweet looking build!
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Thanks man!
dieselbeef said:
badass..i could never get the elec part to work.....i can make it look good but making it work is different story...lol
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Haha well that’s also the hard part
thatguy69 said:
What rear end?
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Factory 9.25ZF with a true trac
Red Sleeper said:
Very clean swap. The engine bay looks factory the way you laid it out. Nice work.
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thanks man!

leftcoast12v said:
Looks sharp. Does the AC work LOL
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It will, being as cold as it is outside I haven’t charged it yet! But will have AC and cruise control working as well!
 
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