Funny how you fail to mention the guy ONLY has 3 psi running right now.... and with less compression than factory.... also considering the guy ran 16s stock...... now wait for a while when the boost comes up and we will see..
also at the time I was thinking he was running at Hemifever's 5000' altitude.. I know it does not affect a turbo as much..

on the thin oil bit.... factory specs using the 5w20 weight to emiminate the Hemi tick problem...

10X the failure rate???? I have owned my share of Chevys...have one now, it has been in the shop 4 times to my Hemi's one... and that was a TSB...
Why are you so RABID about your COMPETITION? there will NEVER be a N/A Hemi in the 12's.... really.... Look at my sig and just think.... that is STOCK.. with a Superchips tune.. a sewer pipe CAI... totally uncracked engine.. Full STOCK exhaust..... when I start modding what are you going to do??? you will see N/A 12 Hemis when the air turns cool.... How do you like your crow prepared? mine won't be there, to many obligations but it will happen.

I always see a guy with a bowtie on his forehead foaming at the mouth when I read your posts about Hemis..... did you get REALLY spanked once upon a time?

dam I am sorry I have not been keeping up with this thread....



TJ

 

I have not had one problem from mine, the only warranty work I've had done is windshield washer motor and the pins in the orignal limited slip.(37k on it)
Now we also own a 2001 ls1 trans am that is stock and we have nothing but problems from it. Constantly and it only has 43k miles on it. The Chevy is lighter because the frame is channel and not boxed, me and my friends four wheel alot, any Chevy we have put together has had to have the frame boxed because they always crack behind the steering box, always when turning a 38" tire and any significant horsepower. Never had to do that to any of our fords or dodges or for that matter any of the toyotas with small blocks. Since I was 15 (now 36) I have owned 25 vehicles 4 of which have been chevys, I had nothing but problems from all but one, that was a damn 83' cavalier. That car would not die even when I ran it out of oil. It kept on living and after the beating I sold it for what I payed for it.
I just base my decisions on real life experiences. I have friends who have had the same experience with dodges and fords. The ones I have owned just gave me a bad taste for the brand. If this dodge I own did the same I definately would not buy another, if they don't free up the computer I will not buy another.
The next toy will be the pontiac version of the 2008?? Camaro (hopefully a new T/A)!!!! I like anything fast no matter what brand even an import.

 

Mister Sinister,

I would not hold my breath on Mopar freeing up the computer..... HPTuners may have a hand in that, along with some others..... but the ***** will Never give up the codes.....

TJ

 

Yeah that does look kinda bleak...looks like we'll have to take the ***** back to Nuremberg for crimes in the horsepower wars....lol

 

That will teach you to buy a 4.8

Just kid'n there all the same.Then again i dont understand why buy the little engine that could when the best bang for the buck is the biggest factory option to start with.

 

I always give credit where it is due, no matter what the brand is. I like my dodge but I also like my nissan, my Chevy and my cadillac. I'm far from brand loyal. you ask me to give credit where it is due (as i do) when you bash on dodge anytime you get a chance, come on.

And 1slow you need look at what the dodge guys are doing na if you are gonna post, middle 13's with bolt ons and no spray. And the only reason anyone is making a big geal outta jays quadcab 4x in the 14's is because he's only running 3-4 pounds of boost. That is pretty impressive. There are also a couple quad cabs running with no tuning and only bolt ons and a small shot in the middle 12's and thats with no torque converter.

 

Yes low/mid 13s with bolt ons I realize that. Can you throw a cam in it and run mid 12s consistanly and not have driveability problems? I havent seen any yet but then again I dont bother searching the DTW board. Im not hating on Dodge at all I just dont think they have any real potential. They look a little better and irde better than a chevy I will give them that but I personally am concerned with performance and reliebility. My truck was fine for 130K till I got ahold of it and and added 200 extra rwhp then the problems started.

 

Honestly, I don't know what a cam is going to do. I know that throwing a 6.1 hemi stock cam in won't get you into the 12's na but I'm not sure what a comp 268, 273 or a krc 220 and 236 will do. We'll know what it will do mid September when Matt (CA) tracks his truck with the comp 268. It's true that our pcm doesn't like the larger cams and everyone cant be as lucky as me and have superchips tune your truck for a month, but with a lot of hardwork and personal expense a lot of guys are finding help, SMT6, ARC1, etc and having no issues with the cams. And now this is opening the doors for the others. So we'll soon see what it will take to get a na hemi ram into the 12's.

And as for potential... well, I'll let track times speak for that. There's an event in St Louis next weekend, I hear a couple of very quick hemi ram trucks there. Not to mention the handful that are being built now.

 

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Over on the DWT forum there is a guy "seems like a hellava nice guy" that has spent large piles of money on a stroker FI RCSB 4x4 hemi.Once running its taken a long time to get to the track, the tranny has been out maybe 7 times before his first timed event, and the hemi boys are jazzed that it ran mid 12s.They can make it run faster in time but then it will mean pulling the tranny on every pass once they are making that power.Funny there ETs they are in glee with are what cam only 5.3 NA trucks are running.Hey but the almighty Hemi is King to most of thoses guys there.