Wow! just stumbled across this again and thought id give a little update in the year+ thats gone by.
Well last november i drove it hard after putting premium in it for the first time and it mustve been either a shock to it or all the stars aligned, especially with the cold day, and it blew out my exhaust just behind the cat. So i went with a single in dual out exhaust. Unfortunately the guy used a flowmaster which im not thrilled about but itll do for now.
About a month later i got the s&b cai and it was amazing. Ofcourse it would be after doing the exhaust and having less back pressure
Then in the spring my tranny went so i had that rebuilt and really beefed up as well as a new TC. All was pretty good except my mechanic told me that its still wasnt acting right and said i needed to get a tuner to try and help fix the tranny pressure. A week later i had him do a custom tune and man did this thing light up.
Since then i threw just shy of 33's on it and havent had much money to do anything else.
The truck has about 130k on it now so ive been talking with my mechanic and weve concluded that were gonna do a full engine swap. Im going with a 6.1 hemi with a 6.4 crank, mild cam, forged internals, srt 8 manifolds (no headers for the 2500 qclb 4x4) and then to top it all off (my favorite part) a centrifugal supercharger from procharger. Guy said he knew id strap on more power so i built the tranny to handle it. Also gonna go with a full axle swap from the dana60/70 (front/back) to a 70/80 with 4.56 gears. Gave me a pretty good quote and i know he can make some mean engines too (building one for my fathers 69 dart).
Anyways, as promised, heres a pic as it stands today
