How's it going? I have been reading for a few days - great information. I will soon be selling my rims and I am gonna place the money I get from it along with my tax return into my engine & tranny.

Right now my truck is basically stock, except for a muffler delete with a 3" dump before the axle. It has 3.42 gears and a stock tune.

I will have roughly $2000 for the parts. This is what I came up with:

TR 224/224 112 LSA
Yank TT 3200
Forged pushrods, springs, etc
w/ a Wheatley tune for 93 Octane

What I really am looking for is the best bang for the buck - I want to break into the high 13's. Keep in mind that this is my daily driver so driveability is an issue. Also I don't live anywhere near a dyno tuner - I think there is only two dynometers in the entire state of Louisiana. A Wheatley tune would probably be my best option.

Please make any suggestions/recomendations.

Thanks.

 

i wouldnt do the converter quite yet, it not necessary with a basically stock truck. i would however buy servos (corvette or billet 1-2 servo and a billet 3-4 servo) for the transmission and a shift kit (transgo HD2). what do you have in the way of exhaust? maybe invest in a set of longtubes and offroad y-pipe..... also, try to find someone locally who will do a live tune, actually get in your truck with you and feel how the truck is acting, you will be more satisfied with the results.

hope that helps you out

 

I would start by working on the tranny, at least a shift kit and servos, Intake - tune - 4.10's - exhaust + headers - stall, etc. leave cam for last.

 

If you decide to go with us for tuning,we would love to help you out and get you running harder

 

first 2k or so i spent was on headers/cutouts/full exhaust/shift kit/servos/cooler/converter/posi/4.56's/tune....that was probably more like 3k but id do the cam last. with slicks that should get you into the high 13's without the cam/pushrods/injectors/etc.

 

I mean getting the servos and shift kit wouldn't be that big of a problem. Although I want to avoid the 4.10's because of the interstate rpm's.

The exhaust setup I have now is the stock manifolds & cats, I just ran a pipe from the cats and dumped it in front of the axle. I am planning on getting pacesetter LT's and taking off the cats to run into a Flowmaster single chamber.

 

Get a good locker (detroit tru-trak), at least 3.73's, cold air intake kit, headers, shift kit, servos, big *** trans cooler (30,000 GVW), and a good tune. See how you like it. Then add stall (go big or go home), drive it for a while, add big cam to match stall.

 

i wouldnt go any higher than 3.73s if you are concerned about highway rpm, i do a lot of highway driving too and am going to keep the 3.42s and put a G80 in it

 

where are you located?

 

Welcome to the forum btw!! I'm just gonna go out on my own here and say swap a 6L in it.
But you'd have to do some of the work yourself for that to happen for 2K unless you can sell your 5.3 to get at least $500 back.