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No?? What about a supercharger?
 
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Ok guys this went from serious to being a game now. Mise well erase this thread huh. I have no experience at all on forced induction and was just trying to get some feedback.
 
There is a guy here in Griffin, GA that has put Cummins twin turbo diesel engines in a few Dakotas and they run off of used (filtered) transmission fluid. I didn't believe it until I had seen it. Of course it is not the stock trans or diff handling the 600+ HP. Personally if you want to do the supercharger I wouldnt recommend going through Ebay. Go to a reputable shop that can tune it correctly. I am sure we all know you cant just strap it on and go. The superchargers of today are more than reliable for daily driving if done right.
 
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Ok thanks. Im gonna do some research.
 
Turbo is the way to go, but you are not going to just bolt it on. That particular one is too small. You would need 2 of those I think. Check out SDCE on this site for a turbo kit for your truck.
 
Ok thanks. Im gonna do some research.
yea, you got quite a bit you need to do. not being an ass btw, just sayin if you don't know what you need and how to set it up/tune it, things will go very bad very fast, especially considering the link you posted was for small engine imports. personally i would go s/c'r over turbo but that's just me, especially if you're only tryin to get around 350hp, hell you can just about do that with alot of bolt ons and a cam. do you have any mods at all engine wise? if not, i highly suggest you start with the basic bolt ons and work your way up.....otherwise boost isn't gonna benefit you that much....it will be noticeable, but not worth the cost if you don't have the rest of the motor flowing better. plus you will need bigger injectors (or some auxillaries) and a way to tune it (either stand-alone, sct, or take it to a dyno) which is even more $$$, plus any fab work, plus cooling, etc...won't be cheap man. if you still do it, research the hell out of it and be prepared to spend some $$$. good luck in any case.
 
Ok guys this went from serious to being a game now. Mise well erase this thread huh. I have no experience at all on forced induction and was just trying to get some feedback.
The internet exists for a reason. Everything you want to know is out there, look around.
Wow, those adds keep getting better and better. Maybe it'll give me a blowjob too?
 
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yea, you got quite a bit you need to do. not being an ass btw, just sayin if you don't know what you need and how to set it up/tune it, things will go very bad very fast, especially considering the link you posted was for small engine imports. personally i would go s/c'r over turbo but that's just me, especially if you're only tryin to get around 350hp, hell you can just about do that with alot of bolt ons and a cam. do you have any mods at all engine wise? if not, i highly suggest you start with the basic bolt ons and work your way up.....otherwise boost isn't gonna benefit you that much....it will be noticeable, but not worth the cost if you don't have the rest of the motor flowing better. plus you will need bigger injectors (or some auxillaries) and a way to tune it (either stand-alone, sct, or take it to a dyno) which is even more $$$, plus any fab work, plus cooling, etc...won't be cheap man. if you still do it, research the hell out of it and be prepared to spend some $$$. good luck in any case.
Yeah i know what your saying. Im totally stock. Just finishing up the outside look and bout done. So im moving onto the engine now. Really all im looing for is something around 320 HP. So if i can get that from bolt ons im down for that route.
 
The internet exists for a reason. Everything you want to know is out there, look around.

Wow, those adds keep getting better and better. Maybe it'll give me a blowjob too?


lol i'd pay double what there selling for if it did that! :mullet:
 
Ok guys this went from serious to being a game now. Mise well erase this thread huh. I have no experience at all on forced induction and was just trying to get some feedback.
If you have NO experience then stay away from a boosted application altogether. OH and Boosting a motor is expensive as its not as easy as you read.
 
After the motor is fully built think about boost. Before then focus on the motor. Boost just adds more things to go wrong and makes going wrong worse.

The motor may seem scary, but it's not and if you put too many PSI on it you'd have to fix it anyway but then it wouldn't even run. You have an R/T, so good start.

The first thing you need to ask yourself is why you want 350hp and what it will do for you. The next is how much money you could use on the project.

Gaining 100hp with just bolt-ins would be in the neighborhood of $2,500-3200 or so. That's excluding the cam since that isn't quite a bolt-on, the cam might really help it out.

It's not unlikely that you could build a 400HP motor out of a van's 360 for that.

That turbo kit needed welding and installation so while the cost is $500, never know what it would have been to finish it all, maybe just $1,200 per kit, needing two that's $2,400 but you should gain the power plenty fine. But now you've got turbos that could break.
 
http://www.bellengineering.net/product_info.php?products_id=17
if you dont know much about forced induction read this.

I mean I guess you could boost the motor but I dont see the point. You're going to end up sinking yourself into a money pit. In all honesty... I would look into finding a 4bt cummins and swap that. Again you're going to have to spend big bucks.

Most motors will handle between 5-10psi on stock internals. This coming from someone with years of experience in turbocharging vehicles. If you REALLY want to turbo your truck on a budget. Find a small/mid frame turbo, tap your oil pan for a return, fab up an exhaust, arp headstuds. As for the headgasket... you can double stack to drop compression (cheap way) or snag a felpro thicker gasket (best way to go).

I'm not sure on what the fuel system can handle but definitely invest in an AEM uego AF guage. They'll save your ass in the long run.
 
http://www.bellengineering.net/product_info.php?products_id=17
if you dont know much about forced induction read this.

I mean I guess you could boost the motor but I dont see the point. You're going to end up sinking yourself into a money pit. In all honesty... I would look into finding a 4bt cummins and swap that. Again you're going to have to spend big bucks.
I wouldn't recommend going that way for that exact reason. Going to a Cummins is not going to really make you go fast cheap, and it doesn't help you get there on a cheap readily available fuel.

One of the best ways to do a cheap high HP Dakota is the 360 there. So swapping away from that to a utilitarian workhorse doesn't make much sense. Most Cummins swaps lose lots of money in the end because they simply aren't practical, losing money on an already expensive R/T makes even less sense. If you wanted a Cummins Dakota you should sell the R/T and go buy a V6 or I4 that doesn't run.

Most motors will handle between 5-10psi on stock internals. This coming from someone with years of experience in turbocharging vehicles. If you REALLY want to turbo your truck on a budget. Find a small/mid frame turbo, tap your oil pan for a return, fab up an exhaust, arp headstuds. As for the headgasket... you can double stack to drop compression (cheap way) or snag a felpro thicker gasket (best way to go).

I'm not sure on what the fuel system can handle but definitely invest in an AEM uego AF guage. They'll save your ass in the long run.
I'm not read up enough on that front to be able to say what small/mid frame turbos you'd be referring to but I can say that almost anything less than a large displacement diesel I6's turbo would be too little to gain any power at all.
 
I have a 99 CC R/T and there is no such thing as making it go fast for cheap! Or, making it go fast on a low budget does not exist either! My R/T is completly stock and I want to make it go faster, I am thinking the best way to do this is to buy a junkyard block and build it over time. I think this is the cheapest way! I have 205K on my r/t, so it is tired but it will still light em up with the greatest of ease!
 
I have a 99 CC R/T and there is no such thing as making it go fast for cheap! Or, making it go fast on a low budget does not exist either! My R/T is completly stock and I want to make it go faster, I am thinking the best way to do this is to buy a junkyard block and build it over time. I think this is the cheapest way! I have 205K on my r/t, so it is tired but it will still light em up with the greatest of ease!
The cheapest way is to pull the motor and rebuild it. Junkyard makes it go faster.

It's not as easy or cheap to make 430hp-500hp out of a 4.7 or 5.7 as it is a 5.9.
 
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