As stated before I have zero reason to go back to the stock plugs, these engines detonate on the dog water 87 under certain heavy conditions, My truck is meant to be used and beat, it will need the extra cooling & ping prevention. I love the engine staying at a consistant 180 degrees, its awesome when towing and normal driving. This was my first tune up on the truck since buying it two months ago so I really didn't care to try out stock range plugs & t-stat and on that note anything other than the loaded up plugs that were in there would probably have been an improvment. If Winter ends up being a dirty SOB that might be the only thing that makes me go back to the 195 t-stat.

Plain and simple my setup works why fk with that?

 

I'm 25 and I burnout and Eat Z-71s (wish I had a camera for that Race! was boarderline pathetic I was off the gas for 3 blocks and he still was not caught up!), even my girl friend whos 20 takes the truck and pounds people with it, its a driving experience owning a Ram and me and my GF don't race unless we're provoked by some cocky ***** in another 4x4 or Ricer car. Basically Sir, I have 2 tires on the back with less than an 1/8th inch of tread bought that way from the previous owner and I want to have some fun before I put good tires on.

A person probably doesn't have a soul if they can't appreciate a healthy 360 Mopar punishing some tires. Gotta admit that watching a lot of the weirdos taping their burnouts on youtube and not doing the Ram's justice has given me incentive to roast my tires whenever I get the itch, something as small as a guy flicking me off in a bar parking lot for zero reason other than I'm driving through the parking lot has been reason enough for me to back up next to him & swing my trucks @$$ end out at him.

 

Hey Sooper since we're being politically correct about things, "Sooper" is actually spelled "Super" for the record. See doesn't it suck having something thats intentionally innocent pointed out as a fault? Obviously a Plenum gasket repair isn't a mod, and obviously you are playing off the word "Super" & purposely spelling your name so you should understand that those things being listed in my signature and in that post to show others that it has been replaced (since its such a common failure & root of most ailments to our Ram's not running right) is a just stating the facts not saying its a modification to my vehicle. But the issue isn't even me, its on your end for assuming someone would call a tune up & plenum repair a modification. You're on a witch hunt for something to bitch about plain and simple, In no way did I say I got X amount of Horsepower from my plugs or theromostat, I said those things have made my truck perform optimum, I'm getting great gas mileage & the power is amazing out of my Ram especially when comparing it to the 3 others I've driven with the stock tune.The Thermostat is also doing its job keeping things at 180 degrees. If you're losing races or pull offs to a Z-71 I suggest you learn where the gas pedal is so you can appreciate what a Ram is for.

Limited experience you say? I'm 25 but I have been working on cars since I was 5-6 years old and yes I include being on "light Duty" in that time because I was taught at an early age to do everything needed to fix a car and know wtf I'm shining the light on for my Dad & Brother fixing cars. If you want me to talk about my accomplishments that I'm proud of lets start on how my expertise in Early 1950s Hemi Engines lead to me owning my first Hemi at 12 years old a 1952 331 Hemi that I pulled out of a New Yorker. I started my own Early Hemi Business at 15 years old selling parts to New Zealand and all over the world on ebay and Hot Heads Racing's online swap meet. I could visually identify all 13 different Early Hemi engine variants and their respective carb & trans options as well as give you numbers on the fly of what engine was which at the junk yard while guys like you were trying to find their engine chart in their wallet. I'm proud of owning 5 Hemi Engines, 2 360s, 1 413 and fabbing my own turbo manifold & intake setup on my Neon. Oh and my Dad gave me his 1968 GTX with a 440 4 speed recently to restore. Thats what I'm proud of.

If you think me listing what I did to my truck makes me feel accomplished then I bet you've got a raging fkn hard on for trying to make someone on the internet feel like a low life shade tree mechanic wannabe when the opposite is obviously the case, I could probably tell & show you things that'd make you turn white if you were a black man. I just listed what I had done to the truck I wasn't listing it to say "oh look how special" I was listing as to give others no doubt when I post a question and they ask me if I did the things I already had listen. If you want to see how limited of a skill I have I bet I'd mop you right up changing a plenum gasket on a magnum motor, can you beat having the intake off in 45 and everything buttoned up in 2 and a half hours?.

 

i need crappier tires and a new tq converter lol. i can't roast my tires at all...lol

 

darn! I want to get a video up soon of mine....All I have is a video of me laying some posi marks with my sisters 2000 Ram Sport 360 truck last year....(Yes its got the death flash!)

 

good deal thank you stewie01..

 

Having wimpy 265 old man tires will definitely allow you to roast them.

Get some man-tires and try it then.

 

um..ouch..I think my stockers are 245..I guess those are girl tires under your tire rating catagory?

 

I've got 275's on mine. Amazingly they're only 10 under what yours are. If you're going to make a comment like that at least have some 33x13's on your truck bud haha. The point of big tires is traction By the way I love your Red Ram! The first Ram I ever drove was a Red 97 with a 360 & straight pipes.

Burning out with a mostly stock setup still is a big deal, go on youtube & watch all the wimps trying to do brake stands with their Trucks be it newer Chevys or Hemi's, they make the engine sound like its climbing Mount Everest with a 22ft long trailer attached because they use so much brake. When I do a brake stand with my truck I stop dead & only tap the brake for a second to hold the truck back just enough and my engine revs up instantly roasting the tires, actually it doesn't even need a brake stand to burnout just mash the gas moderately fast & start whipping donuts, but for crowd pleasers I use the brake stand start to go wild.

 

Sure.
Yeah, sure, 275's, but what aspect ratio? 70 or 75? That makes a difference too.

Thanks.