Draenor
KILL ALL HUMANS!!!!
As some may know, I suffered a pretty bad "annulment" in 2011. The crap still carries on, but another story. As part of what I considered freedom, I decided its time to try to go fast and keep my self occupied. Why not put a blower on a heavy ass 3/4 ton brick? My goal is to shoot for 700hp at the wheels, without blowing stuff up and keeping the sleeper look.
Grab a snickers and get ready for a long post.
So we'll get started on what it cost for this mid-life crisis. I over engineer things, so you really do not need everything on the list. But if you plan on doing something like this it gives you a feel of what it actually can cost. Just because you bought a blower, etc there are other factors that can added to make it work. I actually bought a few more things, but changed my design(different gauges, exhaust, etc). It added to the cost, but since it wan't permanent to the build I left them out of the list.
This is just phase one. I plan to cam, heads, pulley down, and stall the transmission at a minimum for the next phase once I get my tuning down. Maybe stoke the engine out or get a bigger one.
I had more pictures, but my phone got wiped when that new IOS 7 came out.
First thing was to decide on what type of forced induction. Being a heavy brick, I want some grunt down low. This leaves Procharging out. I don't know all that much on Turbos, but learned a lot from reading and from a guy at work. Knowing what I know now, I'll have to build one on another vehicle. So this left positive displacement. Now which one; Roots, twin screw? I did a lot of reading and thought that a twin screw would be a better choice. Plus no one wanted to come down on the price for a Magnacharger. Twin screw, runs cooler on IATs, better compression, less power consumption.
So after searching the world, I found one off Ebay from a Speed Engineering in March of '13. It was listed as new and about a grand cheaper than anyone. So I snatched it.
While waiting on this, It was time to order a few other things that was on the list.
I built a fuse relay panel to make some wiring components easier. I already did the big 3 a while ago when I put in my amp. It is powered up when the ignition is on. Thanks to J-rod for helping me find a switch hot source.
Valentine One, so I can have an extra eye out for speed traps. I ran some power wire up in the roof and hard wired it in.
Then need some exhaust. I originally bought dome Doug Thorleys from
. I changed my mind when I did some figures and went a tad bigger with some Texas Speed 1-3/4" headers.
Then need the other end. Single exit to keep the stock-ish look. Has a nice rumble with the headers and Whipple. Only down side is the annoying drone in the cab.
And head off to the muffler shop to tye it all together.
Next is the HPTuner, Laptop, and mount.
I originally went with PLX for my gauges and installed them in a pillar pod. I ditched the pillar pod because I was tired of every Honda wanting to race when they seen it. Not stock-ish goal, so it had to go. I bought a spare dash, fiberglass, and paint. I don't have 4WD so I used the wasted useless cubby hole.
I been having some issues with my radio and purchased the PLX modules when I had the funds. While doing so, I had to pull the dash several times and just got quite annoying. So I removed the PLX stuff and replaced it with AEM. Not as customize-able, and better fitting, but they are still nice and will do the job.
The one area I didn't research properly were injectors. I didn't know that without the proper data, they would be a PITA to tune. On top of that I found that injector manufactures are very hesitant to hand that out. I know that now, as tuning have been a tad difficult. After a week of tweaking, I think I got it.
72lb'ers
I went ahead and purchased a 2Bar MAP, LS3 90mm DBW Throttle body as well as a X-link to get it going with my truck.
I did a bunch of porting and polishing in the TB.
Grab a snickers and get ready for a long post.
So we'll get started on what it cost for this mid-life crisis. I over engineer things, so you really do not need everything on the list. But if you plan on doing something like this it gives you a feel of what it actually can cost. Just because you bought a blower, etc there are other factors that can added to make it work. I actually bought a few more things, but changed my design(different gauges, exhaust, etc). It added to the cost, but since it wan't permanent to the build I left them out of the list.
This is just phase one. I plan to cam, heads, pulley down, and stall the transmission at a minimum for the next phase once I get my tuning down. Maybe stoke the engine out or get a bigger one.
I had more pictures, but my phone got wiped when that new IOS 7 came out.
First thing was to decide on what type of forced induction. Being a heavy brick, I want some grunt down low. This leaves Procharging out. I don't know all that much on Turbos, but learned a lot from reading and from a guy at work. Knowing what I know now, I'll have to build one on another vehicle. So this left positive displacement. Now which one; Roots, twin screw? I did a lot of reading and thought that a twin screw would be a better choice. Plus no one wanted to come down on the price for a Magnacharger. Twin screw, runs cooler on IATs, better compression, less power consumption.
So after searching the world, I found one off Ebay from a Speed Engineering in March of '13. It was listed as new and about a grand cheaper than anyone. So I snatched it.
While waiting on this, It was time to order a few other things that was on the list.
I built a fuse relay panel to make some wiring components easier. I already did the big 3 a while ago when I put in my amp. It is powered up when the ignition is on. Thanks to J-rod for helping me find a switch hot source.
Valentine One, so I can have an extra eye out for speed traps. I ran some power wire up in the roof and hard wired it in.
Then need some exhaust. I originally bought dome Doug Thorleys from
. I changed my mind when I did some figures and went a tad bigger with some Texas Speed 1-3/4" headers. 
Then need the other end. Single exit to keep the stock-ish look. Has a nice rumble with the headers and Whipple. Only down side is the annoying drone in the cab.
And head off to the muffler shop to tye it all together.
Next is the HPTuner, Laptop, and mount.
I originally went with PLX for my gauges and installed them in a pillar pod. I ditched the pillar pod because I was tired of every Honda wanting to race when they seen it. Not stock-ish goal, so it had to go. I bought a spare dash, fiberglass, and paint. I don't have 4WD so I used the wasted useless cubby hole.
I been having some issues with my radio and purchased the PLX modules when I had the funds. While doing so, I had to pull the dash several times and just got quite annoying. So I removed the PLX stuff and replaced it with AEM. Not as customize-able, and better fitting, but they are still nice and will do the job.
The one area I didn't research properly were injectors. I didn't know that without the proper data, they would be a PITA to tune. On top of that I found that injector manufactures are very hesitant to hand that out. I know that now, as tuning have been a tad difficult. After a week of tweaking, I think I got it.
72lb'ers
I went ahead and purchased a 2Bar MAP, LS3 90mm DBW Throttle body as well as a X-link to get it going with my truck.
I did a bunch of porting and polishing in the TB.
