littleredstroker
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Billet roads pshhh. I'm jíst gonna keep windowing blocks.
sent while staring at a windowed block
sent while staring at a windowed block
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bruce
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if i can keep gettin them for almost free i will too
littleredstroker
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Right ? I picked up the motor I'm running now for 500$
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Id like to do a built motor with billet rods and extensive porting, a bedplate, and some other goodies just for reliability as I tend to be hard on shti. I'd be towing in a racetune even with hybrids.
I like how Big D has his truck setup.
I like how Big D has his truck setup.
vanderchevy18
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I still say the perfect amount of power for a street truck is 400-450hp. I don't care what anyone else thinks. I've been there, done that, and I'm here to tell you that anything more is pretty useless.
And it would be when driving it there. I had a truck tuned @405 hp with 175/80 and then switched to 100 overs. It wasnt enough. I had it running on a different tune that was 425+ and the power wasn't much more noticeable to me but the damn smoke was irritating. It cleaned up ok but who drives around that hard into the pedal besides lincolnlocker? LOL
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Idk what type of vehicles you run into on the street but around here my 530 hp duramax doesn't cut it sometimes. My brothers 830 hp cummins may be slight overkill but its better to have and not need than need and not have. LOL
We're in a 7-3 thread. Nobody said what a good # for a duramax is. 600?
A 500hp 7.3 and a 500hp dmax aren't the same. My 400hp dmax couldnt do alot that my 400hp 7.3 could. My buddies lly with edge or bullydog doesnt run as good as my stock tuned truck with oil, fuel, and turbo improvements. He'll be tue first to tell you that. If he'd get some damn efilive it'd be a different story. I drive duramaxes everyday and they just dont have the ass downlow that a 7.3 does. The only two motors that have that off idle ass are the 7.3 and 5.9cr.
Other than that I love my 12dmax!
A 500hp 7.3 and a 500hp dmax aren't the same. My 400hp dmax couldnt do alot that my 400hp 7.3 could. My buddies lly with edge or bullydog doesnt run as good as my stock tuned truck with oil, fuel, and turbo improvements. He'll be tue first to tell you that. If he'd get some damn efilive it'd be a different story. I drive duramaxes everyday and they just dont have the ass downlow that a 7.3 does. The only two motors that have that off idle ass are the 7.3 and 5.9cr.
Other than that I love my 12dmax!
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He said the perfect amount of power for a street truck, not the perfect amount of power for a 7.3 street truck. However I could definitely see his point on a 7.3 because too much over that turns them into smokey pigs if they aren't set up perfectly.
Look up there. See what subforum we're in? Exactly!
That's why it matters. Yea, you're absolutely right about them getting smoky. Its almost too easy. But tuning related. It'd be mandatory to have live tuning done to optimize the setup. Just as it would.be on a dmax. I was simply pointing out from a work standpoint that a 7.3 is making useable power with gobs of torque.
Every duramax ive driven seems to rely on higher rpms and revving to get work.done. There is no lugging power there. Its just how it is I guess. My favorite is still the lbz. The newer ones leak too much shti.
That's why it matters. Yea, you're absolutely right about them getting smoky. Its almost too easy. But tuning related. It'd be mandatory to have live tuning done to optimize the setup. Just as it would.be on a dmax. I was simply pointing out from a work standpoint that a 7.3 is making useable power with gobs of torque.
Every duramax ive driven seems to rely on higher rpms and revving to get work.done. There is no lugging power there. Its just how it is I guess. My favorite is still the lbz. The newer ones leak too much shti.
vanderchevy18
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Nothing is ever as smokey as a CrumminGs.
No. But my cousins 08 6.7 since he switched to efilive went from 615hp to 671 and most of the smoke is gone. Still sounds weird with 5" straightpipe! 6spd too= blech
Bustedknuckles
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Tapatalk doesn't show what sub forum you're in actually... but yea, 7.3s have got awesome low end power.
01PSD
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400-450 is my goal for mine. It will be a longggg time before I can even begin to think about a fully built engine LOL
dsberman94
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just curious as to why you need a fully built motor for that amount of power? that could be run on a PMR.
01PSD
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Not what I was saying, my bad :doh: Eventually I'm sure I'd like to run a fully built engine, but for now I'll stick with a mild 400-450 combo
vanderchevy18
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You don't. That's one of the reasons it's such a nice power range. Perfect for towing, fun on the street, not slow by any means, clean, and still safe and reliable.
dsberman94
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ahh. that makes more sense then.
