I have a 2500HD with the 6.0L gas engine, lifted, 4x4, with the Whipple supercharger. Truck runs very strong but I have beat the snot out of it towing my WW and the motor is getting tired. I am going to rebuild it and am trying to decide which way to go.

1) Rebuild it for the blower.....lower compression ratio, remove Whipple aux injectors and bump up the stock injectors to 44lbers, new pistons and bottom end, cam, etc...

2) Ditch the Whipple and just build a mean F/I stroker motor.....punch it out to 400CI etc.....sell the Whipple to help pay for the rebuild.

3) Sell the truck cut my losses and start over with a diesel.

I don't have the WW toyhauler anymore so the only towing is now reserved for the boat and even if we step up to a bigger boat it will never come close to the 15,000lbs of trailer I was towing. I really love the s/c, tons of low end power, sick sound, and just the plain old Cool factor but with the baby on the way I am really looking for reliability and I don't want to have to rebuild it in another 60k miles. Truck is almost paid off and is just about the way I want it just need something I don't have to keep messing with.

What do you guys think?

Chris

 

Take off your parts, and buy a diesel...if you can afford. You won't regret it, my father has one, and they're just sick. The modules and bolt on power available is just sick, in a bigger truck.

 

Sell the parts and go with a Diesel. You will have no worries and you know how reliable Diesel's are. You can do many performance mods to a diesel and get some serious power. Look at the DODGE HO Cummings is at 325HP/605TQ

With a kid on the way would you have time to do options 1 and 2??
I heard many people often sell their toys because they no longer have time to mess around with it or need to sacrifice beacuse of a new addition to the family.

 

I just came from a diesel, and unless you do ALOT of hauling, stick with a gas motor. To get the benefits of owning a diesel, you really need to do alot of hauling, because the cost of maintenance is more on the diesel. I had mine for almost 2 1/2 years, and loved it, but once I stopped hauling, I found that it was just getting wasted by driving it around town, by not putting the diesel to the test, ya know? You could go back and forth on which is better, but my .02 once again is, unless you are hauling on a regualr basis, stick with the gas.

 

Thanks for the input so far.

Which do you think would be more reliable....the Stroked motor or the blower motor? I would think that if they were both built equally as well that they would both last the same? But I'm getting a lot of feed back that the non-blower stroker motor would be safer. Any thoughts?

Also which one would sneak pass smog easier? The storker would look the same on the outside but the Whipple has a C.A.R.B. number sticker right under the hood.

Thanks again for the input,

Chris

 

I may be wrong but I would think the stroker as long as you don't go over board. Stroker can have the same reliablilty as a stock motor as long as you using it for street use. I really can't say with a blower Parish can tell all about a F/I motor.

 

definitaly diesel. Those things are sick. Once u spool, hold on, especially when you get a chip and/or exhaust. Also your towing alot, cant be the ol' d-max.

 

Or you could just build a stroker blower motor. Just put in some lower comp pistons, a nice set of rings, and you'll be good to go.

 

 

The stroker motor technically would be more reliable, over a LONG period of time. The blower can put extra strain on the crankshaft, and lead to premature bearing failure, especially on the front cap. BUT, that is typically with your larger blowers that require alot more power to drive than say a whipple charger. Also, say a blower comes apart, where do you think the parts are going to go??? The motor!!!!! These are rare, but ARE POSSIBLE. There is no replacement for displacement, go with the stroker (unless, once again, you haul ALOT, go diesel) then you could always add a blower later!!