Sweet! I was hoping you were going to follow through on this. Good luck!
Yea. Its going to take time. Every good reason not to do it is present but its what I really want. Ive been disciplined with my $$$ to buy a new truck. I sold the duramax and saved another 20k but now that I have the cash to buy outright a king ranch how I want it. It hurts too hard to let go of the money.
The ford dealer asked to see my 00. I limped it in there on a healthy stock trans. Its in a "tow tune" but even with increased line pressure and keeping the comvertor locked if i go over 50% throttle it starts to hate it and when boost exceeds 15 lbs it starts slipping. Stock tune, no issues.
But Im running a race fuel system, rebuilt srp(sold t500), billet wheeled 38r, beehive valvesprings/h11 studs/hd pushrods, and hmmm im sure im forgetting something.
The ford dealer will give me 10 for it as it sits. 12 if I put the black seats and black carpet in. I thought it'd be worth 5 or 6 grand.
I need some more body pieces to get it painted but then im ok with having an old truck.
I can get a motor built for around 8k locally that will handle compounds.
My plan isnt conventional nor will the results if it works. The biggest issue now is if the turbos will drain oil correctly the way I want to do it. The guy I bounce ideas off of thinks it'll work fine once the lube oil pressure is factored in. The melling pump is quite a bit more powerful in volume and pressure compared to a stock lpop.