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Old 09-15-2014, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by oakley6575
Damn dude. One of the best ones I've seen.
LOL At least he's thorough.. In a bad sort of way....
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Well, I originally posted that I was selling this to start on a new project.

After some thought, I decided **** taking the easy way out and going to a lighter chassis.

This truck has been good to me and I am going to return the favor. So stay tuned for new additions to this truck. It will be slow as I have some other stuff to take care of first, but some weight is coming out and a different engine setup with a bit more turbo hopefully is going in.
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Tear down is starting up again. I am going to try to get the bed off this weekend and start the oh so fun process of stripping the factory coating off of the frame.
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Started making progress on the new portion of the build. Everything Stripped out so I can start planning out for the rewire as well as strip out a lot of useless weight.

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Tonight I stripped out what was left on the firewall. Pedals, liner, etc. Pulled some more wiring from the engine bay and started pulling the fenders off as well. Gutted both air bags and I believe I have a way to mount both covers without the actual air bag in them.

Between all the wiring, sensors, bags, charges, etc. I pulled 31 lbs from the airbag system alone.
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awwee man that carnage is insane!!! can only imagine how it sounded when it went
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Just read from the start, badass build. Gives me motivation to really go ahead with turboing my truck. All in all, did you like your on3 turbo ?
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Originally Posted by Jackal1
awwee man that carnage is insane!!! can only imagine how it sounded when it went
I have a video I can try to get loaded up it was taken from the stands. From in the truck it lost power instantly and then kind of sounded like the engine fell out and I ran over it.

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Just read from the start, badass build. Gives me motivation to really go ahead with turboing my truck. All in all, did you like your on3 turbo ?
Thanks for the kind words. This second time around will put the first to shame.

I did like the ON3. I wish the hot side was bigger, but the new ON3 7875 fixes that issue. If I don't go with an S480 this time around I will run the 7875 from them.
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Nice, that's what I wanted to hear. I'm not sure if you posted or not I can't remeber lol, but what did your truck last put down for hp to the wheels ?
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Originally Posted by Rafe19
Nice, that's what I wanted to hear. I'm not sure if you posted or not I can't remeber lol, but what did your truck last put down for hp to the wheels ?
I never got a dyno number, the one time I tried to dyno my driveshaft let go.

I imagine it was in the 625whp range on the high settings.


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