Yeah the 94 is a gt with the cobra bumper. And damn a 408 stroker, nice nice. Your proly going to need a taller hood for that. You prolly already know that.

Where about do you live?

And as far as the truck goes, i just want something more then this 5.2 is giving me haha.

 

I'm hoping to get by with my cobra R hood. I also plan to run a tublar K member so I'm hoping it drops it a little bit. I was just gonna go with a slightly modded 351 but then I found out they changed the emissions laws in my favor sooo I up'd my ideas lol

I'm from Parkesburg

I'd go with a mild build on the truck then. Get a 360 and work it up or stroke it out. A lot of guys go with the 408 strokers in the rams. I'm happy with my modded 365

 

I would stay with your 360. You will eliminate a lot of headache with trans, mounting, and finances. You can make 500+ hp and a gob of torque in your magnum small block with the right parts, but it takes a lot of smart planning. Honestly there is no cheap way to rebuild. Issues with fuel injection and your cpu complicate a solid rebuild while staying legal on the road. The cpu limits how big a cam you can install. If you are looking for a lopey idle you will prolly have to remove the cpu.

 

Wouldn't reprogramming the PCM for a cam/injectors/etc. work, with a tuner of some sort?

 

welcome to df.
if you want to just put in a new motor and start driving it without having to solve a million problems, then replace whatever motor you already have with the exact same thing.

if you want to open up a can of a thousand worms, everything from computer tuning to transmission fit, then put in something different.

 

My suggestion is go to the junkyard and find a decent 360 with a transmission and take it home and rebuild it, depending on how much you want to spend is if you bore it out or just do a rebuild, a decent cam and heads will make alot of difference over stock and your lucky you have a 96 because you can get a SCT tuner to keep from having pcm problems.

While your rebuilding the motor either send the tranny out to be rebuilt or if you want to you can rebuild it, the reason I say get a tranny too is once you add power to the motor an already weak tranny will go bye-bye quick

 

I'm still on my stocker tranny *knock on wood*

 

I really dont think you know what your talking about. You can put in whatever cam you want as long as you have the PCM tuned right with a SCT tuner. Removing the "CPU" as you call it will cause the truck to not run at all...

 

Pot, Kettle, Black?

You can't just throw in any Cam you want. One of the very first limitations of a cam upgrade is the pushrods. If they are factory length, and your cam is moving them further, you'll start having issues.

 

You're not really experienced enough to call that thing you do with your head "thinking".

If you don't have the dyno and related equipment and software, not to mention extensive knowledge, to do your own tuning, and aren't working with someone locally who's got those things, you're going to be doing a lot of shipping of the same darn tuner back and forth to finally get reasonable but not optimal support of your high compression chambers with big valves and a lumpy bitch of a cam under high-flow injectors. There's just no escaping that fact.

It's not all that hard to make one of our engines run strong but not necessarily emissions-legal without a PCM. Swap out the distributor, drop in an aftermarket fuel mixture controller, and jumper some relays (like the ASD) and off you go.

In the end, the OP probably ought to consider sticking with a mostly stock engine with bolt-ons. While these 2nd gen Rams are total slackers as they left the factory, they'll turn up just fine with not a whole lot of effort. At the end of the day, the damn things are pickup trucks. They weigh a lot, catch a lot of air, and have $h17 for traction. If you want to drag race they're the wrong choice, but if you want a truck they're among the best. Heck, I'd argue that the 2nd gen Ram is the best pickup ever built. Not that it didn't come with engineering deficiencies and tradeoffs, of course, as every vehicle outside of niche markets does.

But back to the original point: I know it's damnably tempting at the ripe old age of just off the teat to think you know quite a lot, and I did some of that myself when I was your age, but you might consider damping that temptation just a bit. When you're running ten second quarter miles, and doing it with your own handiwork (as I did at 16), brag all ya want. You'll have earned it. In the meantime, well... go mow some more lawns. That, in fact, is how I earned the money to build my first 440, so I'm not knocking you in the least. I'd like to encourage you -- not that you seem to need it. Not all guys who've been wrenching since before you were born have brains enough to wash their hands before eating, but some of us old codgers have built starter motors that would blow your truck away in the quarter. Have a little respect, huh?