Need Gasser BOMBing advise

[BCFAST]

Buddy at work has a 2001 1500 Ram with the little V8 and automatic. What a pig. It needs help, and as the resident "truck guy", he's come to me for advise. I dont know jack about American gas motors... can you guys tell me what to do? What brand of chip, air filter, exhaust style, transmission goodies... etc? Thanks heaps.

 

[drawson]

Cat back exhaust, an air intake system, and HyperTechs programer will make alittle more power may be 35 HP.

 

[SlyBones]

I deleted the link in my favorites now that I have a diesel. But I did consider BOMBing my gasser before stepping up to a real truck.



There is a place in texas that sells stuff exclusively for Dodge Gas trucks. They have exhaust, chips, intakes, throttle bodys, etc. etc. Search around there are some seriously BOMBed gassers. I will see if I can find the name and update this post.



By little V8 to you mean the 5. 2L not the 5. 9L. checkout the power curves on these two. The 5. 9 has much better bottom end and torque curve. According to these folks you CAN get the 5. 2 to have the 5. 9 power curve with bolt on stuff.



Also check MOPAR Performance catalog. They have a complete line of stuff for the gassers. The shop that installed my gassers FlowMaster 70 series, was installing Mopar Headers, hi flow Cat, 3" exhaust, flowmaster and monster tip for a guy in the stall I went in. Sounded great when they fired it up and pulled it out.



In fact now that I think about it, go down to Dodge parts guy, look through his performance catalog. I recall they had good into in there about HP increases. Make a complete list. Then get prices. then shop around to get the same stuff, from the original vendor at lower price.

 

[Straight6Jeff]

Thorley Tri-Y headers, Fastman throttle body, cat back exhaust (preferably Jardine), Hypertech chip (NOT JET!!!), and a 180 stat. That should liven it up a little. BUT it will start to ping in a few months like all of the rest of the v-8's

 

[24V-DSL]

The Dakota Mailing List www.dakota-truck.net is mostly comprised of gear-heads into Mopar gasser performance. Check it out.



Good ideas from those stated above. I had a very bombed 97 Dakota prior to my beloved Cummins. Just about every bolt on aftermarket parts except supercharger.

 

[Max Wedge]

Pull out that 318 and install a . 030 440 with Wiesco flat top pistons, Mopar . 590 solid cam with the New Edlebrock Aluminum heads (advance cam about 5 degrees) truck is heavy, headers, Edlebrock 750 cfm carb, and he will be there Well at least his gas mileage will be about the same



Max