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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 08:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Derick C.
Well does any body wanna buy a nice 97 ram with a new 408. Im very close to just giving up on this thing. It took the machine shop 3 months just to do the machine work and now other problems are keeping it from running.
why would you sell a non running engine? thats like trying to sell a vehicle with a salvage title and asking full book value for it.
 
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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 08:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Hahns5.2
A 408 is bored .030" over if I'm not mistaken.

A 408 is the 4" crank and the .030 over bore...If I didn't get such a deal on the .030 pistons, I would have gone .010 or .020 to leave a little meat in the block
 
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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 09:17 AM
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A fuel injected engine that doesn't want to run right IS an EFI problem....... you REALLY need to have a chat with HemiFever.
 
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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Derick C.
Well does any body wanna buy a nice 97 ram with a new 408. Im very close to just giving up on this thing. It took the machine shop 3 months just to do the machine work and now other problems are keeping it from running.
What do you want for the motor?
 
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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 09:22 AM
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If he wasn't on the other side of the friggin' continent.... I would happily buy the truck.
 
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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Adobedude
A 408 is the 4" crank and the .030 over bore...If I didn't get such a deal on the .030 pistons, I would have gone .010 or .020 to leave a little meat in the block
Again, I know, I was only telling him how much the block has to be bored for a 408 stroker kit like he asked.
 
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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by 2x1972
Originally Posted by Derick C.
Well does any body wanna buy a nice 97 ram with a new 408. Im very close to just giving up on this thing. It took the machine shop 3 months just to do the machine work and now other problems are keeping it from running.
What do you want for the motor?
Now that I think about it, I might be interested in the whole truck too. What do you want for it?
 
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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 12:39 PM
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so sad. A mere $600 or so to have this truck running and giving up on it.
 
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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 01:52 PM
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Then who knows what size injectors I need? I had no problem buying bigger injectors but nobody here local knew what size so I called Dr. Injector and they said they can make the stock injectors flow enough to feed a 408 so I let em do it.
 
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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 02:11 PM
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You need a tune as well. There is no way your factory computer can run that engine injectors or not. Have you contacted hemifever? I bet he can help you with injector size as well.
 
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