gecoveyc
Diesel Nut
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Holy crap 300D needs a hug or something to make him feel better about himself and his vast knowledge of bull****t. Negative Nancy here has us mixed up with somebody who give a ****t aobut what he has to say.
Dave, I know how you feel to have to build it up air and fuel separately because I had to piece my truck together through the past 4 years of college on a tight budget. Granted you'll be able to buy your new stuff within a couple months instead of a couple semesters like me. Since you're not looking into twins what I did prolly won't be too much help but I'll tell you the order I did my stuff in anyways to see if part of it helps in your application.
While I was in high school I messed around using all the wrong programmers such as Banks 6 gun w/pda and a diablosport and did the basic intake, exhaust manifolds, cold air and my first straight pipe exhaust setup. Freshman year of college I switched to a Smarty finally when I joined up on here and they set me straight. Then I decided I wanted to build it up to make 700-800HP and wanted twins instead of a big single (5.9L I know). So I bought my HTT 62/71/13 to run as a single with plans of doing fuel next and then the other turbo. The turbo ran fine as a single on stock fuel with just a FASS 150. Also blew lots of money on cosmetic stuff this year instead of go fast parts.
Sophmore year of college I got a hold of a Wicked stage 3 CP3 and 120 HP injectors throughout the year and then had to wait to have them installed that summer due to a long distance relationship and me waisting lots of money on diesel to drive to see her in Dallas and flying her up here to see me and then letting her live off me for 8months. Not getting into that. 120HP injectors and CP3 turned my truck into a crazy new animal. And there was my first tranny blow up in there somewhere too but that's not important. Loved this set up for the time being and ran multiple 13.0s with my 6 speed here in Amarillo's crappy DA.
Junior year MP8. And purchased Hamilton valve springs and pushrods and H11 headstuds, because that's when Smarty came out the 4K RPM option unlock and I wanted it bad. I also order the Hamilton cam then too but they were on backorder. That was also the summer I purchased my S476 primary turbo. That summer when I was getting ready to put all that fun stuff on I decided I was determined to run a 12sec time with my current setup before I did the twins. This cost me 2 transmissions and 2 clutches and delayed any progress on the truck for over a year.
In the past year I've had the transmission compeltely rebuilt twice and bought 2 clutches. I have a Valair Street Triple that I like alot and am really excited to race it but I won't until the twins are on which should be tonight. I found a gentleman in Weatherford, TX that made his own twin piping and he sold me them. Also had to buy a 2nd gen exhaust manifold and finally purchased the Hamilton cam. Now in the last week we successfully installed the cam, valve springs, pushrods, and headstuds and the past 3 days I've been attempting to put my twins on in the wee hours of the night in my little spare time. Tonight come helll or high water they're gonna finally be on the truck.
NOW, I'm not sure why I gave you a writeup of my truck build but there you have it. Towards the end I started skipping stuff because I realized most of you guys don't really care about my mediocre buildup.
So in summary:
Programming and basics>>>>Small Turbo>>>>120HP Injectors and stage 3 Wicked CP3>>>Headstuds, valve springs, pushrods, cam>>>>62/S476 Twins in that order is what I did and don't think I'd change anything about it except how long it took to do certain parts.
My suggestion (take it for what it's worth):
You have programming and basics. I'd do the fuel before that big asss turbo and then do the turbo and headstuds and all that stuff a month or so after the fuel. The turbos on those 6.7L are already big. Put some injectors, CP3 and lift pump on it and run it like that for a little bit and then do the turbo. Then you wouldn't have to sit around and "grow into" your turbo and have to put up with crappy drivability for a month or two, and then down the road do a cam or whatever else you're planning.
I know I typed up a whole bunch of stuff that ya'll don't particulary care to read but there you have it. Just my personal suggestion from someone else that couldn't do all this fun ****t all at once. You'll like too much fuel with not enough air A LOT better than too much air and not enough fuel. JMHO
Dave, I know how you feel to have to build it up air and fuel separately because I had to piece my truck together through the past 4 years of college on a tight budget. Granted you'll be able to buy your new stuff within a couple months instead of a couple semesters like me. Since you're not looking into twins what I did prolly won't be too much help but I'll tell you the order I did my stuff in anyways to see if part of it helps in your application.
While I was in high school I messed around using all the wrong programmers such as Banks 6 gun w/pda and a diablosport and did the basic intake, exhaust manifolds, cold air and my first straight pipe exhaust setup. Freshman year of college I switched to a Smarty finally when I joined up on here and they set me straight. Then I decided I wanted to build it up to make 700-800HP and wanted twins instead of a big single (5.9L I know). So I bought my HTT 62/71/13 to run as a single with plans of doing fuel next and then the other turbo. The turbo ran fine as a single on stock fuel with just a FASS 150. Also blew lots of money on cosmetic stuff this year instead of go fast parts.
Sophmore year of college I got a hold of a Wicked stage 3 CP3 and 120 HP injectors throughout the year and then had to wait to have them installed that summer due to a long distance relationship and me waisting lots of money on diesel to drive to see her in Dallas and flying her up here to see me and then letting her live off me for 8months. Not getting into that. 120HP injectors and CP3 turned my truck into a crazy new animal. And there was my first tranny blow up in there somewhere too but that's not important. Loved this set up for the time being and ran multiple 13.0s with my 6 speed here in Amarillo's crappy DA.
Junior year MP8. And purchased Hamilton valve springs and pushrods and H11 headstuds, because that's when Smarty came out the 4K RPM option unlock and I wanted it bad. I also order the Hamilton cam then too but they were on backorder. That was also the summer I purchased my S476 primary turbo. That summer when I was getting ready to put all that fun stuff on I decided I was determined to run a 12sec time with my current setup before I did the twins. This cost me 2 transmissions and 2 clutches and delayed any progress on the truck for over a year.
In the past year I've had the transmission compeltely rebuilt twice and bought 2 clutches. I have a Valair Street Triple that I like alot and am really excited to race it but I won't until the twins are on which should be tonight. I found a gentleman in Weatherford, TX that made his own twin piping and he sold me them. Also had to buy a 2nd gen exhaust manifold and finally purchased the Hamilton cam. Now in the last week we successfully installed the cam, valve springs, pushrods, and headstuds and the past 3 days I've been attempting to put my twins on in the wee hours of the night in my little spare time. Tonight come helll or high water they're gonna finally be on the truck.
NOW, I'm not sure why I gave you a writeup of my truck build but there you have it. Towards the end I started skipping stuff because I realized most of you guys don't really care about my mediocre buildup.
So in summary:
Programming and basics>>>>Small Turbo>>>>120HP Injectors and stage 3 Wicked CP3>>>Headstuds, valve springs, pushrods, cam>>>>62/S476 Twins in that order is what I did and don't think I'd change anything about it except how long it took to do certain parts.
My suggestion (take it for what it's worth):
You have programming and basics. I'd do the fuel before that big asss turbo and then do the turbo and headstuds and all that stuff a month or so after the fuel. The turbos on those 6.7L are already big. Put some injectors, CP3 and lift pump on it and run it like that for a little bit and then do the turbo. Then you wouldn't have to sit around and "grow into" your turbo and have to put up with crappy drivability for a month or two, and then down the road do a cam or whatever else you're planning.
I know I typed up a whole bunch of stuff that ya'll don't particulary care to read but there you have it. Just my personal suggestion from someone else that couldn't do all this fun ****t all at once. You'll like too much fuel with not enough air A LOT better than too much air and not enough fuel. JMHO
