Here goes my fight! Good luck to everyone & regardless who wins, it is a great pleasure to have won ROTM & to be in this great contest.
Bought truck new 06/04/01, it stayed stock for the 100 K warranty. After that I added a 4" turbo back straight exhaust & 300 horse marine sticks. The tranny gave up the ghost @ 160 K, had it rebuilt & it lasted another 6 months. Also added ISSPRO EV2 guages; pyro, boost, trans temp. This brought me to the mod stage.
01/07:
Had ATS stage 4 trans, FASS 95/150, & ATS HRVP installed.
03/07:
Went back to ATS & had them install 3 piece exhaust man, Arc flow intake man, Aurora 3 K turbo, AFE CAI, & EDGE JWA.
After getting on the rollers last Jan & putting down 518 / 1269 the following ensued:
Balanced rotating assembly with 12 valve connecting rods
Main studs
Rocker studs
Head studs
Fire ring head, exhaust ported & polished
Hamilton 181/210 cam, billet push rods, & 110# valve springs
II Silver 66 turbo
S & B stage 2 CAI
150 horse sticks
BD HRVP
BD boost boots
Electric fans
Electric water pump
Smarty
QUAD 4 K
Full billet tranny
Co-pilot lockup controller
Billet flex plate
Airdog 2 165
Fluid damper harmonic balencer
OPTIMA yellow tops
Aftermarket intercooler
SNOW stage 2 water/meth
H2 wheels
Projector / LED headlights
LED tails
LED third brake light
Roll pan
7" miters
Tonneau cover
After the carnage this is happening now, so I am unable to get any new action shots;
Punch .020 over
Ceramic / moly coated pistons
New crank
Re balance rotating assembly
Mill intake runner from head / full port & polish
Fire ring new head
ARP 625 head studs ( I do not want to wind up like Rich on this one & lift the head after it gets back running, sorry Rich )
A second turbo
Bigger sticks
Suncoast / Garmon valve body
3.73 / 4.10 gears still undecided on which
Viair onboard air system
Traction bars
Billet tappet cover ( tired of oil leaks )
Fusion front bumper
Horizontal billet grille
Paint & body
I think that is it, heck I can't remember what all has been done to it. About the only thing left stock now is both axles, transfer case, & the frame.
A few pics that were taken after the last build before breaking:
Third brake light
Paw Paw's little helper
New Heads
New tails
Leaving the line @ midnight drags
Tonneau cover & 7" stacks