str86diesel

yeah, just a friendly piece of advice, your trans was not designed to hold 300hp, Guaranteed. Typically a stock auto tranny only has about 60-66% efficiency. The reason why the efficiency rating is so low out of the factory, is that it helps them gain a smooth shifting pattern. So before you start adding power to your engine, address your tranny first and formost and then approach the engine. What I had to do on all of my tranny's was get a more efficient TC (I went with a 91% from DTT Trans), plus I had them replace my VB with a more powerful one and adjust the pressures according to my power band and then upgrade my clutchpack to a 6 pack. From that my truck was able to hold over 500hp. Keep in mind too, that this was about $3500 in parts/labor. Hense the reason why I will never buy another auto for personal use. The only reason for an auto is on the drag strip

no new clutch pack? Is it an auto..? any plans on a lower stall TC?

I totally agree...that motor was not designed with power in mind.

But because turbo's kick in at high rpms, is what gives them a bad name. Due to a charger running on the belt, its already spooled up and you don't get the lag. Each has their own application and it all depends on what you want your end result to be. :^

what are your plans for a beefed up trans? Once I know plans/thoughts, I can help you lay out a plan.

I hate to tell you but $5000 isn't really going to get you much. Cause you have to remember that once your get your engine to above 200 hp, you will also have to do mods to your trans to hold the power, so please keep that in mind.

Whats your budget? <Serious> Gas motors are not cheap and trying to pretty much double the HP of your motor will set you back some serious dough. Kev

southern_pokey - your right, that motor was all setup backwards and it definately does take a lot of time and money to get that motor putting out 350 to the tires on pump gas. But as beatitouttheframe said...his cure was NOS. NOS is a bandaid solution for any motor to get good numbers and trust me I've seen some mad numbers from NOS (well..and some dead motors ) I'm not callin you out beatitouttheframe, but what kind of nondrug numbers does she put out? I know one of the hot rod buildoffs where a team was going to use a 307 and rebuild it up to 350/400 hp, said that it was just to costly. Also, with swapping out the cam, how did you keep from having to replace the lifters? Typically aftermarket cams give you more aggressive lobes, making you have to change out the lifters and timing chain along with adjusting the timing of the valves? BTW, here's the hot rod buildoff that I'm referring to: http://www.popularhotrodding.com/enginemas...305em_gmachine/ Kev

That's insane. You ought to go back to Car Domain for more donations for publishing your shit without permission... Holla if you need some $$$

That deck looks sick...

That's awesome to hear. No $$ is the best fix

Its cause Ray's da man

I've just read a lot of threads of people complaining about engine noise coming through the deck and that it led back to an internal grounding issue.

^ X2 Great Idea David... :^

I hear the 880 is off the hook...well except for the grounding issue. Definately post up pics... of the equipment and the install

ha ha ha... thought you'd laugh your arse off about that.

Note: Taking a demo ride in Steve's rig now requires the wearing of eye protection Towards the bottom right hand corner http://www.cardomain.com/ following the front page link http://blog.cardomain.com/#EYE Yeah, we all know this is an oldie but goodie..but it finally got public..lol

damn..sounds like you put a lot of work in that bad boy. You've gotta post up pics of that motor if you got'm :-*

heck ya, we got dunes down in the Springs..about an hour from my house. I've never been there but hear that they are off da hook.

saweet...me waiting anxiously. email me some pics or vids and I'll post'm for ya. Can't wait to see that bad boy. You needs to bring it here to the dunes :^

Burrito...when you gonna throw up vids of that beast? Or shall I ask...when you gonna dump those high compression pistons and let me inject some drugs into it

When it comes to mechanical items outside of the hood....Burrito's your man. Sounds like to me you need a new axle

Sounds like it could have been the check engine light. I'd put an OBD scanner on that bad boy pretty quickly do you have a laptop? If so, do I like I did and go to www.obdii.com and buy the software, so that you can have obd diagnostics running while on the road :^ kev

Must be a ford...lol Scratchy, I know that is a european calculation, but how does that equivilate to HP..I don't remember the conversion, If my math is right, thats like 91hp?

Nah, this wouldn't have anything to do with the gauges going haywire, it is definately an electrical problem. Also, connections to the battery wouldn't be the issue either, unless the battery was shorted. As the car is pulling current from the alternator once the vehicle is started. It really sounds like a relay issue to me. When i had this same problem 2 years ago, was because the main fuse on my PDU blew (the big ole 140 amp fuse that of course costed like $50 to replace). Kev