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Probably a dumb question but can this be added to a 4k box? I tried adding it and it removed the 4k feature code. I haven't tried it on the truck yet because my truck is currently down getting a new cylinder head due to popping the gasket a few times now and every exhaust seat being very cracked.

Thanks @98whitelightnin! It escalated pretty quickly from “I’m keeping it stock” to “400 will be enough” then “well let’s put compounds and see what it does” and finally “540! That can’t be right. Let’s work on the tune and try a different dyno.”

Ah that’s right. I think they even have a YouTube video of that.

Thanks Bullet! When this engine lets go it is getting a 6.7 common rail but in the mean time I want to see what an SO VP can really do.

I put down a number I am pretty impressed with last weekend. Now we are debating on trying to make it to 750hp on the SO without nitrous. A friend of mine thinks we are already pretty close to the highest power SO pump. So I figured I’d ask you guys since this is probably the biggest active group of VP guys. Dyno was at an old gasoline hot rod shop so it was only set up for 1,200 max torque. FullSizeRender.mov Oh and the tach pickup kept falling off which is why torque drops off on both pulls and print out is in MPH.

Alright I'll make some adjustments. Thank you for your input @Me78569!

Yeah sorry didn't realize how un-readable they would be when I saved them as an image. Hopefully these are better. Thanks in advance. The truck is also making about 61-63 PSI but the MAP stops reading around 48-52 depending on the log.

I've spent a long time lurking while I built my truck. It is "done" now and I'm working on tuning. I took it to a dyno a couple of weeks ago and datalogged two of the pulls. I made a race tune with the excel tune builder but I wanted to see what y'all thought and might have some input to squeak out a couple more torque and horsepower. It made 519.9 HP and 937.2 LBFT on the first pull and 519.9 HP and 910.8 LBFT on the second pull. iQuad-Race Tune 7x10-2019-04-18-08.49.031114096596.json

Thank you I’ll keep that in mind once we start the build. Right now all we have done is talk and start on the transmission. I’ll probably still use Smeding as they sponsored his build and I have a feeling will assist with mine.

Thank you! I’ll look into it those tonight after work. I do not run 2 stroke. I’ve seen it cause aeration in the above mentioned common rail. His however has twin CP3s, soon to be triple, and a very high flow lift pump so that may have been why it aerated with 2 stroke. Thank you Mopar Man, will do.

No sir. Ennis Texas at the Texas Motorplex

Latest picture of my truck from this weekend’s NHRDA event in Ennis.

Congrats on the new truck. I know the feeling of waiting for the plant to build your car. I may be employed by said manufacturer and it took four and a half months for my current field car to show up.

Hello all. Just joined the forum and am looking forward to making some friends. I have known about the forum for a long time but just recently bought my 99 Ram 2500. I’ve been a Diesel and a Mopar guy for as long as I can remember and even have a Bachelors degree in Diesel and Heavy Equipment. I’m also fortunate to have a career in an industry I’m passionate about. I live in Arlington but work everywhere from here west to Fort Stockton and north to the Red River. I was intending on keeping the truck stock and just cleaning it up, however I spent the weekend at a NHRDA event and got the bug. A good friend and colleague of mine had been trying to convince me to build it since before I bought it. He is about to open a diesel performance shop and we are going to build the truck to be advertisement of the work that he and his business partner can do. We are already building a milder version of the transmission he built for his 1,200 hp common rail daily driver. The horesepower goal for mine is a smokeless 450-500 about 1000+ ftlbs. Plan is a pair of Smeding Diesel turbos, large injectors, head studs, Quadzilla Adrenaline, bigger CAC, etc. It isn’t a daily driver but I do want it to be reliable enough to drive halfway across the country and not worry about something failing. My vision for the appearance truck is how would Chrysler (FCA) build it today. So after I am “done” with the performance build the truck is getting some body work done and I’m going to redo the interior. I’d like to have the performance build done in the next 6-12 months and the total build “finished” in the next 18 months. This is probably too much for an introduction but I’m excited to have a truck I’ve wanted since I was a kid and have the ability and support to build it into something hopefully unique.