Hello Everyone!. I know some of you have been following my build on another site, but I wanted to make one on this site as well as it seems that this site is more performance oriented.
I will post pics of the beginning stages with a short text to keep things simple. I will update the thread as I progress. If you have any questions I will be happy to answer them. If you have suggestions, I am all ears.
turbos are a pair of GT30 or better know as 57mm, I made log manifold to keep things simple
turbo mockup with support bar
fabricated a little fitting so that I could use a remote power steering pump reservoir
6061.com elbow was added along with Aeromotive fuel components. I also modified the fuel basket to accept AN feed and return (BIG thanks to charged392 as his thread about doing this helped me a lot!! and to ATXHEMI for pointing me to it!! )
installed the fuel rails, some vacuum lines, boost gague, wire some of the water-meth kit, and installed the pump (Walbro400) Thank should bring you up to date. I will post more when I make some progress
No, not yet. I just installed the fuel tank this past weekend. I need to put back together the elbow/throttle body assembly. I am also waiting for a fitting to complete the water-meth installation (should be here Saturday). Then i need to do some wiring, and some other minor stuff then i will make an appointment to have it tuned.
Unfortunately for me it is going to be miserably cold this weekend so i do not know if i will be able to make any progress.
Would the Hemi engine be fine with stock spark plugs or do i need to go one step colder? I will be running 7 psi with meth injection. If i need to go a step colder, what would you recommend? Part number? Thanks
Today i did not get to do much because holy crap it is cold!. Anyways, i managed to install the Ford air pump which i am using for crankcase evacuation duties. It is not wired, but it is in its place.
The OCPerformance manifold came with a fitting (1.25" thead) that adapts to a brether filter, but i wanted an oil fill tube. I found a filler neck for older vw that has the same diameter but different thread, so i cut the OCPerformance fitting and welded it to the vw's now i have a filler neck. I will drill and tap a 3/8npt hole to add a vacuum regulating valve.
I also received the 90 degree fotting to adapt the water meth injector so that the feed line runs parallel to the inlet pipe, but all of that stuff wont be touch until next weekend.
Not much to update. i installed the water-meth injector. Painted the reservoir black, and started final assembpy of the elbow/throttle body. I brought today the cold side tubing to the powder coater to get them done. I am going to do them in wrinkle black. Still need to do the spark plugs and
I have a question; has anyone rewired the spark plug wires so that both spark plugs fire at the same time? Are there any benefits to this??
Both spark plugs do fire at the same time.
The spark plugs on the 03-05 are fired from different coils, but still at the same time. 06+ uses a single coil to fire both plugs.
The coil and wire setup fires 1 plug(under coil) on TDC and the other (wire from another coil) in the exhaust stroke for emissions reasons. With shorty wires both would fire same time same hole. The dual coil systems on the 06+ trucks fire TDC and exhaust strokes. Some engines like the shorty wires some do not only way to know is try it.
received the powdercoated items. Took a little break from work and installed the water-meth bracket, pump and tank, hopefully for the last time
I received the plugs yesterday, will install those over the weekend. Stay tuned for updates
I used an aluminum angle with 4" and 2" wide legs. The 4" side is perfect for mounting the pump and the 2" side to mount the tank and to mount the whole assembly to the truck. I will take some more pictures from different angles tomorrow to give you a better visual.
spark plugs went in. Started to piece back together the cold side. I still have some wiring to do and need a little help with that. If anyone has a wiring diagram of the fuse box or near by wiring, I need to tap into a wire that is hot when running only (key on, engine off I need that wire to be dead. Only one when the engine is running) something like fuel pump trigger signal. Or if you could post or link me to a wiring diagram I would really appreciated (2005)
Here are a few teaser, night time shots. I will try to take some during the day
Max, looking good. The wire you want is coming from the ASD relay. I would recommend you use it as a trigger wire for a standard automotive 30a relay. I see if I can find the color to better identify the wire.
Got this from the 05 manual..
Max couldn't post the schematic. It is too large. If you like, PM me your email and I'll try to email it to you.
I am almost done. I only need to hook one wire to turn on the meth (12v switched) and one wire to turn on the electric vacuum pump (+12v to relay) After that i have to do the tail pipes, but that is cosmetics
Here are some random pictures of the finish product
I asked my tuner to write me a start up/warm up/test drive, lite driving tune , just so that i can make sure there are not leaks (oil/fuel/ coolant, exhaust, etc) if everything is ok i will contact him to make an appointment for dyno_tuning
I have run into a problem with the tuner (T1000).
When I fist got it, I updated it to revision 1r13f which I installed on January 22nd. The other day, I was able to save the factory settings to the tuner and installed the 93 performance tune to the truck I then tried to upload the OEM tune to my computer to then send it to the guy doing the custom tuning, it would start uploading, but then I got an error saying: "do not support this controller ID" and cancel the upload.
I went back online to the Diablo support page and saw that there was an update (rev. 1r13h). I reloaded the OEM tune into the truck so that I could upgrade the tuner to the newer revision. After updating the tuner I tried to save the OEM tune to the T1000 and now I am getting an error saying" that the tune cannot be saved" so now i am stuck. I contacted Diablo about it, but have not heard from them yet. Any suggestions??
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