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WarlocK451
11-23-2007, 02:52 AM
Hello everyone! Well name is Shawn and I'm from Buffalo ny...I recently put a video of me doing a burnout in my 1988 dodge dakota on Youtube and one of the guys who left a reply made mention of this website...I have to say, this is a nicely done site! Here is the like to my video...awesome sound, turn up the volume!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsg9F3-_L6g

I actually have 2 Dodge Dakotas:

My daily driver and tow vehicle is an extended cab 2002 Dakota SXT 4x4 with a 3.9 liter V6. The only mods done to this truck is a 3" dynomax cat-back exhaust system, K&N filtercharger, a 12,000 pound tow capacity tranny cooler, Hayden heavy duty clutch for the fan and a summit high perfomance cap and wire (taylor 8 mm) kit. It also has 3.92 gears. I have to say I really like this truck and can't believe how well it pulled my other truck from buffalo NY to carlisle PA...through the big hills in 92 degree weather this past summer. I'm hoping to do a little more to this engine to get some more performance out of it...hope to get some info from here as well!

My other truck is a Jet black 1988 Dakota that I bought in the fall of 1999 for $100 dollars. The guy I bought it from was gonna take it to the junk yard and pretty much laughed at me when I told him that I was gonna restore an put a big block in it. I have since invested over $17,000 to fully restore and modify it. It was originally powered by a 2.2 liter 4 cylinder engine and had a 5 spd manual gear box. The current powerplant that i built is a 9.5:1 compression 1978 400 big block that has been stroked to 451 CID with a 1970 440 crank. Estimated power is 535 hp. I also built a Race prep 727 automatic with a Cheetah rev manu shift valve body and a TCI 3800 stall street fighter converter. The rear end is an 8 3/4 out of a 1972 duster and has 3.55 gears with a detroit tru-trak posi. The truck has run 11.70's at 115 mph in the quarter mile on 93 octane fuel

Anyway...I'm glad to be aboard here and hope to enjoy everthing this website has to offer! :D

Shawn

AmberFireDaK
11-23-2007, 02:55 AM
Sweet Jesus...Welcome to the site! :beer: I'm only 45 mins away from you across the border

WarlocK451
11-23-2007, 02:56 AM
Hey thanks for the warm welcome! Where abouts are ya in canada?

AmberFireDaK
11-23-2007, 03:19 AM
Hey thanks for the warm welcome! Where abouts are ya in canada?

St. Catharines, ON

DAKSPORT1PA
11-23-2007, 03:20 AM
Welcome to the site. :wave:

Montana Dodge
11-23-2007, 05:02 AM
Howdy

aristeidis
11-23-2007, 05:10 AM
welcome....and wow that truck rocks:mullet:

ifish24
11-23-2007, 05:18 AM
Welcome, I too am a newbie here.

Jasonb61
11-23-2007, 06:09 AM
I'm the one that invited you over! Glad you could make it... you should find this site very helpful as I have over the years! I have a 87 Dakota I'd like to swap a bigblock into soon as well! If you dont mind me asking, what'd you do for motor mounts? Custom or did you buy the kit?

Thanks,
-Jason

WarlocK451
11-23-2007, 02:35 PM
Once again, thanx to everyone here! I'm already finding out how cool this web site is. Hope that I can contribute as much as I can.

Jason, thanx again for the invite. I really don't know how I missed this site. Oh the engine mounts and headers are homemade. I'm gonna be building a new set of bigger headers (2" primary tubes to 3.5 inche collecter) this winter and putting a 150 horse N2O kit on it as well. I've got pictures both mounts and headers. The existing headers maybe going up for sale this year as well.

Taz_FL
11-23-2007, 08:13 PM
Welcome to the forum...thats an awesome ride, love the look and sound :mullet:

myrtlebeachbst
11-24-2007, 01:00 AM
Welcome, I used to live near Buffalo, Nice truck

WarlocK451
11-24-2007, 01:05 AM
Thanx! Its friggin cold here right now...24 degrees! Oh well.

Cloned_R/T
11-24-2007, 10:14 AM
Welcome aboard.

As for other mods for the 3.9l, get a V8 thorttle body with the matching years throttle cable and you'll see a little extra hp and acceleration boost plus you'll see better MPG's. Also look into the superchips programer, more hp and more MPG's!!

PS If you get a 98 T/B you need a 98 Throttle Cable because chances are the current cable you have will not work with the throttle body you have. Dodge seemed to have changed the throttle cable from year to year.

beazlbub
11-24-2007, 05:58 PM
:wave::welcomesign:

DakotaLivLrg
11-24-2007, 06:05 PM
Welcome to the site :wave:

myrtlebeachbst
12-02-2007, 06:51 PM
Boy what I would do for a sahlen's hot dog, They would second on my list of things I miss in Western NY, Family being #1, And a beef on wick coming in a close 3rd

WarlocK451
12-02-2007, 08:09 PM
Boy what I would do for a sahlen's hot dog, They would second on my list of things I miss in Western NY, Family being #1, And a beef on wick coming in a close 3rd


LOL! yeah them things are pretty frickin tasty!!! I just had a beef on weck this past friday from a Charlie the Butchers...mmmmm! Hey, if ya want some sahlen's dogs, let me know, I got no problem with shipin' some to ya!

loudrango
12-02-2007, 09:10 PM
welcome to the site:wave:i'm only a couple hours away from ya in utica.

Dakota94Sport
12-09-2007, 06:19 PM
Welcome! :wave:

Ziggy
12-17-2007, 05:54 AM
I'm from buffalo also, Clinton and Smith area
now the air force has me sentenced to cheyenne, wy for now....3 years so far lets see how much longer lol

WarlocK451
12-18-2007, 12:12 PM
I'm from buffalo also, Clinton and Smith area
now the air force has me sentenced to cheyenne, wy for now....3 years so far lets see how much longer lol

Yeah, I'm famililar with the area, My brother lives in kaisertown and I used to work on babcock st. 3 years since ya been home? Thats a long time to go with out some sahlens hot dogs, beef on weck or some kick ass hot local chicken wings!!!! LOL!!! Good luck to ya , man!

Shawn

Ziggy
12-18-2007, 03:39 PM
omg...you know how hard it is to get a "bucket" of wings here.....i mean sh*t its like they dont give out wings in sizes of more than 10 lol

Badblkrt
12-18-2007, 04:01 PM
Yeah I was gonna say, don't forget about the pizza & wings, and Mighty Taco..

Ziggy
12-18-2007, 04:05 PM
I haven't had Might Taco since I was like 15!!