Also, and this is down the road some ways, I want to add a supercharger, what do I need to do before I add one, and what will it do to my gas mileage? I don't plan on going crazy just 6-8psi.

 

A supercharger may drop your mileage a bit since it takes crank power to turn it, a turbo on the other hand is like having your cake and eating it to. I lost no MPG by adding a turbo. I logged 19MPG the other day on a trip to the Columbia gorge and back. If you drive either super hard all the time, of course you'll lose mileage.

What do you have to do? Well, if you have to ask..

 

hahns is right.. A supercharger isnt just something you plug in, theres a lot that goes into it.

I don't have to look at the link you gave to tell you that a chip will not do anything. You need to have pcm flashed by b&g or get mopar perf pcm.

The 9mm wires and "performance" cap are unneeded. As is your 180 thermostat...
Get the gears, flashed pcm, and roller rockers. There's not much more you can do aside from more aggressive cam and other engine work.

 

What I mean is I see people saying they hooked one up to a bone stock engine and it works great others say the pistons, block need to be reforged and tranni replaced. Not sure what to do about it.

 

Trany will be a most deff.

Link to a procharger for 2nd gen rams

http://www.fasthemis.com/procharger-...1996-2001.aspx

 

Thats big $$$$

I don't have near that much in my 408 build.

 

The engine is fine for the most part. Biggest things will be the stock intake manifold and it's leak prone plenum design and the ring gap. The top piston ring gets pretty hot in boost, if it gets hot enough to close up, it locks the piston to the cylinder and it pops the ring land right off the piston. I never had a problem on my stock engine at 8PSI with no intercooler but I'm sure high mileage opens up the gap some. When I built my new engine I hand filed all the rings to the desired gap. Next is stock head gaskets, these are said to not like much beyond 10PSI.

The biggest key to making a boosted engine last is the tune, and this is what most people skimp on. You really need a standalone computer to do it right, even OBD2 and SCT completely sucks for boost.

Keep and eye out for this upcoming retrofit kit for the Magnum Kenne Bell supercharger kits. It places the compressor where it belongs, on the intake manifold and removes the horrible restrictive blower inlet.
http://zcodeperformance.com/products.html




Yeah, new they're really expensive. I have about 2k in my turbo setup, not counting the standalone

 

i need that...required. someday lol

 

It's nice, but what you have to take off the blower to get to the dizy cap.

 

He claims that's not the case.