Hello all.

My name is Zach. Im in the military (Air Force) and currently own a diesel truck. Im going to go to an 2007.5+ truck because my wife likes that body style better and I like them as well and want to get a newer truck. I just am in a toss up of weither to make it a gasser and forge that motor and put a turbo on it or get a diesel.

Regardless either truck will end up having around 800hp+ and I know right off hand that the gasser is cheaper to build. Heck for the price of Stage 2 heads, rods, and pistons sitting in my living room floor I can get a Iron 408 Longblock from HKE for about $300 cheaper. lol

Things I will be searching for and reading about is reliability of such truck, price to fix things if something goes wrong or breaks, type of mileage in town and highway of a truck of this nature, how the trans holds up, 4 speed or 6 speed trans, etc.

Thanks for your time and lookin forward to gain knowledge.


Little about my current truck. Its a 2007 GMC Sierra 2500hd 4x4 LBZ Duramax. SLT with heated leather.
Mods:
SDP EGR delete, BD Full Bore, Modified up pipe, PPE Ported Fuel Rail Fitting, PPE Race Plug, PPE CP3 inlet, Airdog 2 165, RDL Downpipe, MBRP 4" exhaust dumped over axle, EFI live, DJM 3/5 drop, 17x8 Cragar soft 8's, 265/70 tire, Goodmark Cowl Hood, ******* Tonneau cover, Plastidip all the chrome, Alpine Type R door speakers with 100.4 Alpine amp, Kicker zx400.1 amp with 2 Diamond Audio D1 10's, Tinted windows, 55" traction bars and Edge Insight CTS. I'll include pictures of my current truck. Enjoy.

 

 

Please post pics. Sounds like a good looking truck and im curious to what a cowl hood looks like on a 07. I havent been able to find a cowl hood for 05-07 HD's.

 

As you stated.. Diesel is MUCH more expensive then gas, why the arbitrary HP rating? What are you looking for? Toying capacity, ET at track, pulling????

 

Hey Tony! Ive seen you around DF & DD.

Well I want to have that bad *** truck with enough power to beat fast cars. I dont actually tow anything so thats why its a toss up between gas and diesel. The most I may tow is 2 jet skis whenever I get them. If I go diesel I would want a build like Dustin's (sickdiesel). Gas, prolly a forged/stroker set up with some kind of turbo.

 

So I posted pics earlier and they showed up. went and did some work and came back to check on this thread and now they arent there. I'll try to see if I can fix it bud.

 

Welcome to PT!

Keep em both, make em both fast.

 

Your links will not work that way, you have to be a member of that site to view the pictures. You will need to host them somewhere like photobucket and then link them.

Welcome to the site man. Whats your AFSC?

 

Makes sense. So I went ahead and saved pictures to my government computer and made an album on this site and then redid the pictures on here.


AFSC is 2W051. Deployed currently but will be home in 2 paychecks. Testing for SSgt when I get back out of cycle cuz I left before test dates.

 

You won't be able to use 800hp Duramax on the street, it'll be turned down.

How many miles per year do you drive? Gas is MUCH cheaper to build... If you just want a fast truck I'd say go gas. Diesel is FUN, but EXPENSIVE.

Dustin's setup is sick, but $$$$. I bet you are looking at a minimum of $30k to reach that point excluding buying the LMM. He gets some pricing that we won't see.