should I build it ?

I'm debating building my truck up was wondering what I should go with and thoughts on if the truck is worth it here is what I'm debating on

-Truck has 190k mile is it even worth building ?
-s467 single or new compounds
- 30% nozzles or injectors
-dragon fire hpfp or duels
-what kind of intercooler

What's already done
-Intercooler tubes
-cold air intake
-built tranny
-egr, ***, straight piped

Stuff that will get done while I'm there
-new head gaskets
-head studs
-Fass fuel system

Anything else ? Any imput is appreciated

It is a 6.4? It's hard to say if it would be worth it or not, but it's more about how good of shape it's in than the miles. For me it would be almost impossible to spend $10-15k in mods on a truck that's beginning to rust out, but if the truck looks nice and appears that it's under 100k then who cares what the actual miles are

I can't load pictures from my phone but it's in awesome shape

And it's an 08 6.4

When you do any sort of modifications, its only worth what someone will pay for it.
Most likely you'll never get that money back. If you plan to keep it. Then you have to decide if its worth it to you. With that said, if you do it then at the bare minimum get at least a new set of rockers.

And id do top end before fuel. Mine with a 468 pulls cars on trailers just fine on stock fuel

What do you mean do the top end

New rockers, push rods, springs, magnafluxed and decked.. At least with that many miles.

Build it.

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OK I realized I worded my post wrong sorry about that I'm looking for imput on all the stuff I'm debating single vs new compounds and all that other stuff thanks in advance

Go with a set of drop in compounds. I don't understand why people take a step back and go with a single. Cost stays low and the driveavblilty is not sacrificed. Can you do the work yourself? Do you want to take the risk of going thru your fuel system again if the dragonfire pump fails?

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Are the dragon fires prone to fail ? And yes I can do work my self
Do you lose a lot of drive ability with single

loki said:

Are the dragon fires prone to fail ? And yes I can do work my self
Do you lose a lot of drive ability with single

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They aren't known for being reliable.

If you are buikding it i would also throw a set of pistons in so you dont have a real bad time later...

thats alot of miles on a 6.4 to start building for performance

s10mike said:

thats alot of miles on a 6.4 to start building for performance

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That's what I'm worried about

stroker221 said:

New rockers, push rods, springs, magnafluxed and decked.. At least with that many miles.

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190k miles and throwing out the build topic without these items taken care of is pointless.

loki said:

OK I realized I worded my post wrong sorry about that I'm looking for imput on all the stuff I'm debating single vs new compounds and all that other stuff thanks in advance

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Single vs compound is a long debate and with many threads id suggest searching for them..
To add on to that it seems your not that familiar with what this platform needs to be reliable and withstand some good power and i think you should read more build threads and others in relation to reliability.

loki said:

Are the dragon fires prone to fail ? And yes I can do work my self
Do you lose a lot of drive ability with single

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Again more research.

Lipka101 said:

Go with a set of drop in compounds. I don't understand why people take a step back and go with a single. Cost stays low and the driveavblilty is not sacrificed. Can you do the work yourself? Do you want to take the risk of going thru your fuel system again if the dragonfire pump fails?

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Agreed on the drop in compounds..

6.0 Tech said:

If you are buikding it i would also throw a set of pistons in so you dont have a real bad time later...

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This is excatly what i ment by what i said above, from the info you have given us it appears your truck has been solid for many miles. But pistions and top end work should be taken care of if your talking BUILD IMO.

s10mike said:

thats alot of miles on a 6.4 to start building for performance

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Agreed, depending on budget id do a rebuild and address all the common failures and reliability issues to make it as reliable as possible. Then if money still remaining id go fuel and turbo.

I wish you luck, it all adds up quick.

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Thank you for the info sounds like I'm better off selling my truck and buying one built by someone smarter then me lol

loki said:

Thank you for the info sounds like I'm better off selling my truck and buying one built by someone smarter then me lol

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By no means am i trying to say that... just that theres a lot of research that goes into a build and doing it right the first time if possible can make all the difference.
Some of the things you said made it seem to me more research will help you in your decisions.
If iv misunderstood my bad, but if the trucks clean and your looking to keep it for a good amount of time and its wort it to you to drop the coin into it rhen by all means go for it.
Im a fan of all who keep rhe 6.4 alive. Haha



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Oh it's not just your post it's all the post sounds like I would have to rebuild the engine in order to do the amount of modding I want so It makes more sense to buy a truck that already has some if not all of that stuff done and go from there