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TyCorr · Jan 26, 2012

Ill definitely come see it when its done. I wanna paint the 7.3 red but the orange looks nice. Anything is better than grease/rust. That s483batmo is wild lookin....

STROKER · Jan 27, 2012

Got the pistons in last night and the girdle on...

Extended Power · Jan 27, 2012

Just a question, but...why did you remove the bedplate bolts after the rods were connected to the crank?
And if the bedplate wasn't already on...how did the crank not fall onto the floor when you installed the pistons and rods?

STROKER · Jan 27, 2012

Extended Power said:
Just a question, but...why did you remove the bedplate bolts after the rods were connected to the crank?
And if the bedplate wasn't already on...how did the crank not fall onto the floor when you installed the pistons and rods?

LOL We had a little photo op before we finished. We had the block flipped upside down when we put the pistons in then we put the bed plate on took the 1st picture bolted her down and flipped her over for the second pic

STROKER · Feb 1, 2012

Trucks slowly coming together, picking up the trans tomorrow and hopefully getting the motor ready to put back in. Goal is to have it running by sunday with the single 66 for now until matt finishes the compounds. Still shooting for Rudys if I can get the compounds on in time.

faster6.0 · Feb 1, 2012

What compression were the pistons?

STROKER · Feb 1, 2012

Dozers Diesel said:
What compression were the pistons?

Factory i didnt get them machined

patrickke · Feb 1, 2012

This is gonna be pretty sweet when its up and running

STROKER · Feb 1, 2012

patrickke said:
This is gonna be pretty sweet when its up and running

Thanks! I hope so

patrickke · Feb 1, 2012

What did it cost you to have the pistons coated if you don't mind me asking

STROKER · Feb 1, 2012

patrickke said:
What did it cost you to have the pistons coated if you don't mind me asking

my Stockers were messed up so i had to get a new set of mahles that were already coated, i don't know how much the coating costs.

Powerstroked162 · Feb 2, 2012

Where's the modded manifold from Absolute at?

STROKER · Feb 2, 2012

I dont know it must of got lost in the mail LOL

bigdirty · Feb 2, 2012

Video of it running?

smokinstroker · Feb 2, 2012

Powerstroked162 said:
Where's the modded manifold from Absolute at?

Very interested to see this

TheSmokinStroke2002 · Feb 2, 2012

looks like its going to be nasty!

MorganY · Feb 2, 2012

looks good Mike! more photos more photos

DMAX · Feb 3, 2012

We got alot done tonight. We Drilled and welded a fitting into the oil pan for the 2nd oil return for the turbo. Installed lifters and branch tubes, balancer, we were putting the heads on and we decide to replace multiple pushrods. But we did get one head torqued down ready for injectors and oil rail. We are going to pick up the transmission from Josh@RCD tomorrow morning and get a few spare pushrods and hopefully get alot done over the weekend! Here is some pics