i know what you mean about not wanting to screw up a daily driver.... but even though i have other vehicles that i could drive if the truck broke (heaven forbid).. but they just sit because the PSD is my daily driver. i drive my truck everyday except for the days when i tear into it to mod it or something. i've been rather lucky too as my truck has never been back to the dealership since i've owned it either..
i guess i could devote a single vehicle to strictly race, and gut it out and do all the other stuff that "drag cars" do, but that just doesn't excite me for some reason..
it's the fact that my truck IS a daily driver and does drag strip duty that makes me proud of it. that's why i would get so irritated on some of the other forums when people would try to call me out and brag about whipping me because they have a fast superduty... but honestly ANYONE can make a fast superduty if all it has to do is go down a dragstrip, but how many of those guys are gonna be able to drive to the track in their personal daily driven work truck etc and be able to back the smack ??? and that's why i do what i do with my truck. i put over 30K miles a year on it, it takes me to work, i take it on vacations, i go offroading and camping, and can still crack off a high 12 with it in street trim...
back when i thought it was all about just being the fastest i got a hold of a base model PSD truck and gutted just about everything that wasn't necessary, but it was certainly not something i'd want to drive around town in. point is that is was way faster than my current truck, and at 11.7's was probably faster than most of the internet fast guys but it just didn't give me the same satisfaction that i get when i'm headed home from the casino and the guy in vette or the camaro tries to come alongside to give me the bird for smoking him out but somehow he just can never seem to get up alongside me
... i love it..
and the best part is that the whole time he's trying to pass me he's just getting more and more of the same smoke that pissed him off to begin with
i mean if you've already done the injectors and all the other stuff to your truck, swapping the turbo out will be a minor thing. you can swap to a nonvgt in your driveway with hand tools in about 2 hours, and if it ever had to go to dealership (knock on wood) for any reason, it'd sure be easier to put the stock turbo back on than to put the stock sticks back in ya know ..