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Old 03-15-2007, 06:03 PM
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turbo you can get them pretty cheap too. you dont need anything fancy since its not a perminant setup.
 
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I would love a turbo, but I'm not sure It'll be worth it after I drop a crate in.
Could i get the HP with several smaller mods? Like TB, fuel rail, bigger injectors, and other stuff like that?
 
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but atleast with thte turbo you can sell it when you done with it. with the fuel rails, and that, I doubt you can sell them for a good price when your done.


virused psted a link to turbos on ebay a while ago.. I doubt you will need anything that big but they were pretty cheap, or you get on off of a shadow or daytona and put it on your truck. and that would be cheap as hell. fuel rails, injectors, TB. they can add up.
 
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true, I'll look into it.
i just think a turbo is a little extreme and would have to wait longer,
I wouldn't mindthe small stuff 'cause i could do them between big mods like shave the truck,airbags, stuff like that
I don't want to roll around with stock wheels for more than a couple months after i 'bag 'er

Hey, what If I put changed the gears?
that would help smaller mods make it to the pavement through the heavy wheels
 
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you could change the gears. what gears do you have in it now? I dont know what the 4 bangers came with. and do you have the 8.25 axle?

the way I see it is, you dont want to be replacing things twice, like lets say you put new gears 500+ and it ends up that the rearend wont work with your design you have in the future. then your out that 500+ get what im saying.and I know it will probly be a while until you do those huge mods. I would do acouple cheap mods to get you by.
 
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how many miles are on the motor you start running 12 pounds of boost...POOF just my .02
 
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well i've got 114K miles. I don't think 12 Pounds would be smart anyway on a stock motor

I'll need to redo the entire drive train anyway, I expect to replace everything.

I don't know my gears offhand but i'm pretty sure it is the 8.25. I'll check in the morning

I'm looking for some mods to get a price idea but nothing seems to be out there ( i'm gonna be up late)
if anybody can help with that, I'm already looking at forum sponsers
 
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Dodge has a good? history with turbos. I say that meening they did it a lot, I don't know how many of them were good. A budys Omni GLH could blow the doors another freinds newer Beretta gts. That little thing was FUN!!! Dodge and I'll add a few Crysler's a had a lot of turboed cars: srt-4, Stelth, Dayton, Charger, Shadow, Omni, Caravan, PT Cruiser And then there's all the diesel turbos, just stick with smaller ones like from a Sprinter or Liberty. I loved my 86 Xr4ti, it put out 175 hp. That wasn't bad for back then, out of a 2.3 Ford 4 banger. Great gas milage if you could keep your foot out of it.
 
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I come from a turbo 4 banger background, ie, Nissan/Datsuns. I've turboed everything Nissan has in 4 or 6 cyl and I can tell you that most of the old skoolers ( like me) are going LS1. Turbos are fun but they break often. Just go V-8 and save yourself from the expense and the learning curve. For what I've spent on broken parts, I could have easily paid for a new GTO or C6.
 



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