syrupdawg
GA Diesel Mafia
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- Mar 16, 2008
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Heres the background. 3 Aprils ago I bought a true SRT 10 truck from a guy that Chuck Rucker knew. It was a rolling chassis and I had the intention of putting a cummins in it for a fun street truck. It is a 2004 and has 29k miles and some change on it. The interior still has that new car smell.
With all my race truck taking up time the year that I bought the truck I didnt get to mess with the truck much. i knew I wanted to put a common rail in the truck and make everything look and function like factory. I could have just thrown a fairly built 12 valve in it pretty cheap but I didnt feel it would do the truck justice. It definately would have been the easier route but I just couldnt picture the truck that way so I waited. Well last year I bought a house and 300 acres so that pretty much threw out all of my spare money so it delayed the build even more.
Fast foward another year and I find a smoking deal on a complete 6.7 cummins engine out of a 2010 with 68k miles on it! So this past Sunday I went and picked up the engine and its got me motivated to get back on the truck.
Current plans are to just get the engine in the truck and get everything working like factory. Im going to put a t4 manifold on it and a s400 as a single for the time being. Its going to remain stock injectors and cp3 for now. Im going to put a 47re behind it and control it with a PCS. The rearend currently has 4.10 gears in the rear but Im going to swap the ring and pinion to a 3.54 set which is the lowest I can get for the super dana 60. I bought a early 2004 wiring harness several years ago. Its a complete firewall foward harness so I just pulled all the wires from the front of the truck already. Im going to use one of Lees pigtail harness's for it so I can tune it with EFI live.
Future plans are building the engine. Basic stuff, ported head, billet rods, bigger injectors and cp3, and some quite large twins. Im going to 4-link the truck with a 9" rearend so I will have some taller gear options. Once I get all the bugs worked out and the rear end done Im going to strip the entire truck down to the frame and have it painted. There wont be a bolt on this truck that wont be powdercoated when its completed. My goal is to have a very stout street truck that is SO clean you could eat off of it!
Im starting this thread because I know Im going to have some questions on this build. I have some extra motivation as a couple years ago after I bought the truck I joined the SRT 10 forum. I asked them a few questions and told them my plans for the truck and they told me I was wasting a perfectly good truck. Every year they have a SRT 10 rally in Panama City Beach. When I get the truck done I plan to take it down there and prove that my truck with the diesel will put them v10 engines to shame in power and fuel mileage.
I look foward to keeping everyone updated on this build as it progresses!
With all my race truck taking up time the year that I bought the truck I didnt get to mess with the truck much. i knew I wanted to put a common rail in the truck and make everything look and function like factory. I could have just thrown a fairly built 12 valve in it pretty cheap but I didnt feel it would do the truck justice. It definately would have been the easier route but I just couldnt picture the truck that way so I waited. Well last year I bought a house and 300 acres so that pretty much threw out all of my spare money so it delayed the build even more.
Fast foward another year and I find a smoking deal on a complete 6.7 cummins engine out of a 2010 with 68k miles on it! So this past Sunday I went and picked up the engine and its got me motivated to get back on the truck.
Current plans are to just get the engine in the truck and get everything working like factory. Im going to put a t4 manifold on it and a s400 as a single for the time being. Its going to remain stock injectors and cp3 for now. Im going to put a 47re behind it and control it with a PCS. The rearend currently has 4.10 gears in the rear but Im going to swap the ring and pinion to a 3.54 set which is the lowest I can get for the super dana 60. I bought a early 2004 wiring harness several years ago. Its a complete firewall foward harness so I just pulled all the wires from the front of the truck already. Im going to use one of Lees pigtail harness's for it so I can tune it with EFI live.
Future plans are building the engine. Basic stuff, ported head, billet rods, bigger injectors and cp3, and some quite large twins. Im going to 4-link the truck with a 9" rearend so I will have some taller gear options. Once I get all the bugs worked out and the rear end done Im going to strip the entire truck down to the frame and have it painted. There wont be a bolt on this truck that wont be powdercoated when its completed. My goal is to have a very stout street truck that is SO clean you could eat off of it!
Im starting this thread because I know Im going to have some questions on this build. I have some extra motivation as a couple years ago after I bought the truck I joined the SRT 10 forum. I asked them a few questions and told them my plans for the truck and they told me I was wasting a perfectly good truck. Every year they have a SRT 10 rally in Panama City Beach. When I get the truck done I plan to take it down there and prove that my truck with the diesel will put them v10 engines to shame in power and fuel mileage.
I look foward to keeping everyone updated on this build as it progresses!
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