I've had this truck for about a year now. Ups and downs like every 2nd gen but overall I am very happy with this truck. Prepare for picture overload. Quick run down. A buddy posted this truck for sale on fb the day before the transmission decided to die in my grand prix (shocker). I bought this as to be a dd/tow rig when needed. The truck is originally from Texas and moved around a bit. I did find the owner on fb that brought the truck up to Indiana/Michigan and he provided some history on it. The box was trashed from day one. The owner I bought it from did not own up to rolling the truck onto it's side which cause bed damage and some door push in at the bottom. Nothing too crazy on the cab, door or fend. Box took the most of it. The engine, transmission and tcase are of unknown origin as Kurt (guy who brought it up to the north) sold it as a roller. It is a 180hp engine, 47re and DHD tcase. No clue how they found the correct drivetrain to stick back in it but they did. Lucky me. From day one this truck was weak. Even for a stock 12v. Ended up being the injection pump yayyyyyy. I got lucky and found a 180hp pump that had been gone through. Runs pretty well now. I will be going through the transmission to support my needs and have most of the parts already. Replacement/fixed stuff I have gone through; front brakes, ball joints, axle joints, track back, steering linkage, steering box, transfer case, front main seal, gauge wiring, dtt voltage box removal & wiring repair, thermostat, a/c line, water pump, stainless flex lines, led lights through out, projector retrofits, double din stereo, recovered head liner, 5% tint, two sets of wheels & tires and I think that is it. I am getting ready to do an axle swap to get better brakes as the single piston calipers are a JOKE. Now for the pictures and I'll try to get them in order.

What turbos are you going with? Compounds or single?

On 2/27/2018 at 9:45 AM, jlbayes said:

Axles, compounds, injectors, etc.

@Marcus2000monster

I am excite. I ordered a Goerends triple on Wednesday and it will be here today. So I can FINALLY finish the transmission for this thing. No one should have to drive a stock 47re for a year. I will be pirating most of the transmission from the green truck. 3rd gen rotors are coming today as well. Just need the flex lines from Crown and I can finish the rear axle. Gonna be busy here in the coming weeks.

Makes me wanna drive up to see it when it's done and see how it drives

Converter and rotors showed up on Friday. I now have everything to do 3rd gen brakes on the rear axle. I did discover my front drive shaft is thrashed so I will need to do something about that.

You could just remove it 

It already is. It would have damaged a bunch of stuff with the ujoint darn near apart and the drive shaft flapping around. 

Had a neighbor that lost a joint in rear drive line on his bronco and drove for quite a while with just front shaft. Never went very far or very fast though 

What triple from Goerend did you end up going with?

Had to do that in my old square body @Royal Squire. Talk about torque steer lol.

 

15ss @notlimah

Nice, I have the same. I wasn’t sure they could be run on a compound setup so that’s nice to hear.

I will have a small secondary. Only reason I went with it.

Ah gotcha. I read earlier about the compounds so just assumed you’d need something like the 17ss so I’ll definitely be interested to hear how it all works out.

 

Also with a 650hp goal are you leaving the flex plate stock?

Edited March 14, 20187 yr by notlimah

I have an aftermarket sitting on the shelf waiting. I have a ton of stuff I've gathered up over the last year.  

That doesn’t exactly sound like a bad place to be in!

I was busy af all weekend. Pulled the built trans from my 24v, removed the mpm input with the direct and forward clutches. Installed those on a standard billet input and into what was the 24v trans. I also installed brand spankin new Goerends 15ss triple disc and valve body. So the old 24v trans has a fancy Sonnax billet direct drum, mpm 2nd gear band, mpm billet output, tcs & sonnax billet little pieces, 3.8 lever and prolly a couple other things I am forgetting. A buddy and I spent most of yesterday finishing reassembly of the old 24v trans, removing the trans from the 12v and installing the new trans. But......it was so worth it. Trans is solid af. It has taken a year but we now have a built auto in the 12v. Injectors are next. 

Only pics I took. 

Man it's a vicious cycle.   did you splash holy water on the parts after pulling them from the green thing?

We blessed it in every way possible. Had a hell of a time getting the new converter to seat. Idk what its problem was.

155 is low low stall isn't it?    What that choice?