Inherited my Dad's toy.

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Well my Dad passed on the 5th. Talk about a sucky year. My step mom passed in June. I'm still trying to get back to normal.

My Dad left his 98 24v. It was his baby, and play truck. I couldn't get rid of it even though my truck is a built 7.3 and we always were trying to out build each other. I'm going to continue building it and turn it into my race truck while the 7.3 will be the tow truck.

The truck is pretty solid. Here's a list of some of the junk under the hood.

II dragon flow pump
II dragon flow 11 hole sticks and EDM'd tubes
II tow twins
fire ringed and ported head w studs.
Banks hi ram and IC.
Red line box and Smarty.
Built Sun coast tranny w manual TC lock.

These are my plans so far.

F1 or F2 cam
larger supply lines
milled intake manifold
s480 to replace the big charger

is there anything I'm missing.
 
hey sorry to hear about your losses. terrible.... its nice that you kept your dads truck. it will always mean something to you that a different owner (if you would have sold it) would never understand.

have you thought about ppumping it??? might just want to get that out of the way first. if its going to be your dedicated race truck you will want to do the swap eventually. you've got some good parts that if sold would help alot in offsetting the cost of the swap.

IMO, i would do the ppump swap first before i spent the money to mill the intake off.
 
skav said:
Well my Dad passed on the 5th. Talk about a sucky year. My step mom passed in June. I'm still trying to get back to normal.

My Dad left his 98 24v. It was his baby, and play truck. I couldn't get rid of it even though my truck is a built 7.3 and we always were trying to out build each other. I'm going to continue building it and turn it into my race truck while the 7.3 will be the tow truck.

The truck is pretty solid. Here's a list of some of the junk under the hood.

II dragon flow pump
II dragon flow 11 hole sticks and EDM'd tubes
II tow twins
fire ringed and ported head w studs.
Banks hi ram and IC.
Red line box and Smarty.
Built Sun coast tranny w manual TC lock.

These are my plans so far.

F1 or F2 cam
larger supply lines
milled intake manifold
s480 to replace the big charger

is there anything I'm missing.
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the stuff you got is some good quallity parts. I d like to suggest diesel pros cam bill fletcher has done some racing knows this particular motor well. The s480 w/race cover also a good choice. not sure if this year has the problem of blowing freeze plugs if it does look into a coolant bypass. good luck dave
 
I thought the P7100 was a P pump. If it isn't, how much more will the P pump flow over the P7100 w 13mm plungers?
II listed these specs for the pump: 670cc at 4000 RPM and 800cc at 1000 RPM.

How street friendly will the P pump be? The current setup is streetable if you don't put it to the wood off the line. It will black the freeway at WOT w ease.

Thanks for the info guys.
 
Yes the p-7100 is the p-pump. I was confused because you have a redline/smarty listed for electronics. On a ppumped truck those would be useless.

Maybe you could list some more info or a few pics would help.
 
Ppumping a vp truck is very streetable...it's like tuning a carb on a old muscle car. It's totally mechanical and go from mild to wild with the turn of a screwdriver!
 
lightsOUT said:
Yes the p-7100 is the p-pump. I was confused because you have a redline/smarty listed for electronics. On a ppumped truck those would be useless.

Maybe you could list some more info or a few pics would help.
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I'll get some pictures up in the next couple days. It does have a red line box so it must be a VP pump. He paid around 3k for it And he called it the dragon flow pump. The specs said that the pump flowed 800.
 
I'm not a 24v guru by any means, just wanted to say that I'm sorry about the loss of your dad. Really.

-jp
 
Hey man sorry to hear about your dad i couldn't imagine that. I bet your old man stomped your ass in that truck hahaha. If you are staying with the vp 44 seems like your setup is pretty good already and no need for the big lines from the VP. Big lines are good if you were talking about a fass pump or airdog. Like everyone else said ppump is def the way to go for ultimate hp.
 
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DieselNasty said:
no need for the big lines from the VP.
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Technically if he has a Dragon Fire vp44, Industrial Injection says that .093 lines and holders are the minimum size recommended for that pump.

I don't see why you couldn't run the vp44 and see what you can get out of it. Sounds like a pretty decent setup now. If you are going to make changes make them one at a time so you can pinpoint what was worth it and what wasn't. IMHO.
 
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97crewcab said:
Technically if he has a Dragon Fire vp44, Industrial Injection says that .093 lines and holders are the minimum size recommended for that pump.IMHO.
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True didn't know that's what II says, but form what Ive seen in the past it never gained any power and sometimes lost it with a VP44. Hey if you want em get em you kno.
 
how much power will the tow twins be able to make, if its going to be a puller
 
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