Drunken Hamster
Turncoat Ford Boi
- Joined
- Jul 18, 2017
- Posts
- 1,910
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- 357
- Location
- South Carolina
- Ram Year
- was 2005
- Engine
- was 5.7 Hemi
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That sucks. I looked up pics of the 6.1 in a 300c and everything looks the exact same as above, except the color of the intake, that smashed part (which I thought was just some damage), and the 6.1 had some plastic covers over the coil packs.That’s a 5.7 car intake and engine. You can tell by what looks like a flat smashed part on the front of the intake. The 6.1 is completely smooth and rounded
Yep, 5.7. The 6.1 intake is metal. Also the 6.1 does not have EGR (left front, cylinder head to intake manifold). Not even an eagle 5.7, 06-08 LX.
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One you found looks like mine lol
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I have $300 to my name, atm. But I am trying to sell some lawn equipment for 2500... Even if I got 15....You could snatch that engine and build you a stroker
So your trying to upgrade to a bigger motor trying to go fast lol
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6.1's were designed from the get go to be performance engines. Heavier duty everything, piston squirters, no MDS, and a big bore. You can put apache heads on them. Ultimately I want to build a 392 or 426 6.1 based stroker with apache heads for my Charger.
Basically, my dream build for my ram would include an aluminum 6.1 base 426 stroker with the works. Possible nitrous and/or procharger, too.
And a trans swap lol
That's pretty damn obvious, lol. Don't you just about need a trans swap after camming a full bolt on, tuned 5.7?
Can get them to live a bit longer by always turning off OD before romping on it or tuning out 2P completely.
I generally drive around in sport mode [read: towing mode] all the time unless I go on a long, MPG oriented highway trip. I also tap the gas while cruising to get it to downshift before hitting on it, or I'll manually shift into 2nd if I'm going slow enough[say, sub 60?].
I take it that if I were to do FBO, cam, and a tune to my truck, and THEN throw on NOS, I'd also need a new trans, yes?
Just off the cuff, are there any decent 6-speed manual options that would handle said power levels[or said power PLUS a 5.7 stroker build] and not be 10k or some **** like that?
Not necessarily. It's not like nitrous is running all the time. Hit up chefred. He has an 05 that was a 12 sec truck with and without nitrous on the original 5.7 before he had to rebuild it and ended up stroking it (which dropped it further into the 12's). Pretty sure he's still running an RFE.