The truck is back from the exhaust shop. I can finally stop babying it around with earplugs in. I really need this winter crap to go away, I want to drive the truck again. In the couple of short trips I've had it on the trans has shifted flawlessly, the traction on the back end with NT420S tires and snow covered roads has been interesting but it's made it, I kind of miss the 4wd right about now though.
The exhaust is a 3" custom job with smooth mandrel bends, a 4" long flex joint right after the headers, a real x-pipe, the same dual 30" Magnaflow mufflers as before, and dumps before the axle. It's still loud even with the 30" mufflers.
I replaced my two different brand AFR gauges (Innovate LC-1, and AutoMeter) with a new single gauge dual AFR Innovate DLG-2. It's so nice having it all on one gauge now, plus it's a lot easier to tie it into the HPTuner since the scaling factor is the same for both gauges. This still leaves me with 2 open gauge ports holes which I really need to fill with more nitrous gauges, lol.
The big news is I'm picking up a 6.4L truck core from a local dealership on Friday. I've had a couple dealerships keep an eye out for a core for a 6.4L gas job to use as a base for a 426 stroker and I got the call today. I can't pass up $900cdn for a long block when a new block-only core charge was going to be $1000-$1400 from most engine builders, excluding heads. The core has a bottom end knock so I suspect a bad rod but I won't know until I pull it apart. New stroker rotating assembly, lifters, and probably a set of Thitek heads and she'll be ready to roll.
