I sold my Trans Am and got this...

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trans am had stainless long tube headers, and magnaflow exhaust with no cats. some other little mods.

I sold this, and bought this.. đź‘Ť

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1997 4x4 powerstroke diesel 5 speed 135k miles 4.10 gears and the offroad package.


so far, i have done a custom intake, chopped the exhaust off after the down pipe, did a resistor mod to add about 40 HP.

plan on doing a 3" downpipe with a single stack, and some nice 33" tires this spring. plan on blacking the truck out. black grille, wheels, cab lights, tinits, and a black stack.

should look pretty awesome. by the end of 2010, it should be makin about 320-350 RWHP, and torque over 600 ft/lbs at the wheels
 
Why go from annoyingly loud, stinky and thirsty to annoyingly loud, stinky, thirsty, smoke-spewing and not-especially-fast?
 
Because it's awesome, that's why! :sly:
 
Gotta love diesels, although you shoulda bought a dodge :p
 
Diesel trucks kick ass. Colorado's full of wannabe rednecks/cowboys with their big-ass lifted + stacked powerstrokes and cumminses. Makes for an interesting cruise night when they're filling the street with smoke. Me and some friends once got a guy to pick on an annoying ricer all night. Poor guy had his windows down the first time...
 
Rotary Junkie
Why go from annoyingly loud, stinky and thirsty to annoyingly loud, stinky, thirsty, smoke-spewing and not-especially-fast?
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Because now he's annoyingly loud, stinky, thirsty, smoke-spewing and not-especially-fast with the ability to pull giant red woods out by their roots!

Good purchase! My neighbour has a 4x4 duelly that looks almost exactly like yours and its so mean it hurts to look at it. I watched him pull a jeep out of a steep ravine with so much ease I doubt the truck knew it was working. :lol:
 
looks good. i want to get an early 90's silverado. are you on ls1tech at all?
 
Shall I chuck in this gem as well?

nitrorustler41
by the end of 2010, it should be makin about 320-350 RWHP, and torque over 600 ft/lbs at the wheels
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LolWUT?

My 1.8 litre petrol car can produce up to 1,350lbft of torque at the wheels...
 
Famine
Shall I chuck in this gem as well?



LolWUT?

My 1.8 litre petrol car can produce up to 1,350lbft of torque at the wheels...
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Lol Wut?
 
Transmission...

His car can pull more than that truck in first gear...
 
i'm not a diesel expert but 600 ft. lbs does seem high out of that truck.
 
StigNumbers
Transmission...
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Exactly.

You don't measure torque at the wheels. Why? Because your gearbox multiplies torque!
 
A person I know evidently got 1000 ft. lbs. out of his diesel Dodge by changing the intake, exhaust, and chipping it, and he also got a new transmission because he said the old one would just break.

I personally don't believe him, it's unfathomable to me to get 400 ft. lbs with a silly little chip. But if it's true, then I don't see why that truck can't do it.
 
As much as I like Ford trucks I would of kept the Trans-Am.
 
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I dont get it but hey your money:tup:
 
JCE
As much as I like Ford trucks I would of kept the Trans-Am.
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Same here.

However, if you decided to get rid of the Trans-Am for the truck, then you must have a really good reason. đź‘Ť
 
StigNumbers
I personally don't believe him, it's unfathomable to me to get 400 ft. lbs with a silly little chip. But if it's true, then I don't see why that truck can't do it.
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You can get 300+ ft lbs out of a skoda fabia 1.9tdi vrs just with a remap so i dont see how it would be hard for a truck to get that much easily.
 
Rotary Junkie
Apparently it tricks the ECU into adding more fuel...

More fuel = more power = wheee.
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I know how they "work". Problem is that they don't.

More fuel + same air = less power = more unburned fuel = emissions fail
 
So your going to put a bunch of black stuff on a white truck?

Also, when you say "stack" do you mean like semitruck stacks? Because that looks horrible on a pick-up.

Whatever though, it's your money.
 
Famine
I know how they "work". Problem is that they don't.

More fuel + same air = less power = more unburned fuel = emissions fail
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It's a diseasel, adding fuel is a good thing (and in fact most chips do that and only that).
 
Nice truck if your going to go off road or tow some heavy stuff. It's not unheard of to make massive amounts of torque out of a Diesel truck, actually, all done up, all 1/2 million pounds of truck can be made rather fast considering it they weigh the same as the moon. Though putting serious amounts of torque through the 4 wheel drive system without really beefing it up will leave many weak links to breaking. Just remove the four wheel drive and make a street truck out of it.

Then do this :D.

 
Regardless, nice truck.

Don't stop upping the torque until you're afraid that the truck might rip the planet in half.
 
Rotary Junkie
It's a diseasel, adding fuel is a good thing (and in fact most chips do that and only that).
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Not quite.

Diesel combustion may be different from gasoline combustion (May, Famine? May? It IS different!) but it still requires an appropriate air/fuel ratio. What exactly IS appropriate depends and the governer decides.

You start ramming more fuel in there and the first three side effects are:

* More noise
* More emissions
* More heat

You're more likely to make more power as well than in a petrol engine because of stoichiometry - the petrol just won't burn and you'll have a rich-running car - but it'll do way more harm than good.

Ultimately, if a 20 cent resistor made cars faster, it'd be on there from the factory.
 
*resisting urge to want to see it on 66s and 5-tons*

However, I would LOVE to see a black cloud of smoke coming from the tailpipe, accompanied by the sound of a Jet taking off, and maybe some engine rumble. ;3
 
Famine, heat is a bi-product of combustion and the amount of heat created is relative to the amount of power produced. Dūšbāg.
And, with the chip, you can control the air intake as well, afaik.

The reason why a 20$ resistor isn't built into the car at the factory is because of:
1. Marketing. You pay more for the same engine to produce more power.
2. Because the engine and other parts of the car would need to be more durable, hence rising production cost.
 
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nevertell
Famine, heat is a bi-product of combustion and the amount of heat created is relative to the amount of power produced.
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No, really? Burning stuff makes heat. I'll write that down.

nevertell
Dūšbāg.
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Aaaaand that's 10pts. Grow up.

nevertell
And, with the chip, you can control the air intake as well, afaik.
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Not in a diesel you wouldn't, and on petrol engines all these do is tell the engine more air is going in. Nothing is controlled.

nevertell
The reason why a 20$ resistor isn't built into the car at the factory is because of:
1. Marketing. You pay more for the same engine to produce more power.
2. Because the engine and other parts of the car would need to be more durable, hence rising production cost.
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20 cent resistor. The reason it's not soldered onto the car at the factory is because:

1. It doesn't work.
2. It blows your emissions sky-high.
3. It doesn't work.

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Having a large amount of accumulated fuel in the combustion chamber when combustion commences is a bad thing, for a number of reasons:

I) It increases emissions, particularly NOx. Generally speaking, NOx is created when an oxygen/nitrogen mixture is subjected to high temperatures and pressures. At the start of combustion, the combustion chamber on a diesel engine is filled with air, which is a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen. It is under high pressure. It is fairly hot. If a large amount of accumulated fuel suddenly ignites, creating a very hot flame front, the process will probably create a large amount of NOx as well.

II) It makes the engine noisy. When the fuel does combust, the more there is of it, the bigger the bang. Technically speaking, a large amount of accumulated fuel quickly combusting will result in a rapid increase in cylinder pressure, something which humans perceive as the characteristic diesel knock sound.

III) It provides localized heating of the combustion chamber. If a small amount of fuel is accumulated when combustion starts, it will more easily mix with the air in the combustion chamber to minimize combustion chamber hot spots. When a large amount of accumulated fuel is present and burns quickly, there is less time to mix with the air and localized heating is more prevalent.
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Quit while you're behind buddy. You can't beat Famine
 
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