600hp was fun but boring. Going bigger!

DEEZUZ · Feb 11, 2013

Very jelly

vanderchevy18 · Feb 11, 2013

The build is as follows.

Filled, balanced, girdle, line honed, h11 main studs, billet rods, welded cam gear, bigger cam (not sure what), h11 head studs, ported and polished heads, fluidamper, beehive valve springs, fire rings, radiused and relieved pistons with lower compression, smith brothers push rods, 400/400's, waste gated GTX4294r, irate full fuel system, billet intake plenums, stealth dual hpop, flexalite electric fans, water methanol, and nitrous. I'll take it down to Leadhill Arkansas when its all done to have the BTS freshened up. Right now I'm running Brian Jelich's tuning. I'll probably have Matt live tune it later. I'm just waiting on the wastegate kit, flexalite fans, and nitrous to come to get it running.

lincolnlocker · Feb 11, 2013

sweet build!

vanderchevy18 · Feb 11, 2013

It's killing me having to wait on a couple parts to come in with it setting there on a stand just waiting to go in!

Blowby · Feb 11, 2013

Nice build. Looks like you're going to have some fun driving in the near future. What are you going to control the WG with?

old man dave · Feb 11, 2013

BTS is extremely reasonable cost wise beefing up his transmissions for bigger motors than originally intended.

lildevil02 · Feb 11, 2013

Sounds like a fun build.... Making me miss my 7.3 in for the results

vanderchevy18 · Feb 12, 2013

I'm actually going within a Tial 44mm spring tension valve.

Lang · Feb 12, 2013

Who's intake plenums are you using?

vanderchevy18 · Feb 12, 2013

Jake's I'm pulling the ones on it off. They get in the way of the turbo, dual hpop, and glow plug relay bracket.

vanderchevy18 · Feb 12, 2013

Any suggestions for turbo? I found out that when I cracked a valve in the last engine, a piece went through and bent 2 of the turbine fins. Thought about maybe an s480 till I get a new chra for the GTX. Not sure if it'll even be street able with a 480 though.

Groomzybanshee · Feb 12, 2013

Precision 4202

Mdub707 · Feb 12, 2013

Are the fluidampr's not a worry on the 7.3 trucks like they are in the 6.0 world? Seems like once every goes to a crazy build like this, they take them off. Seems they've caused more harm than good.

Awesome build man, should be a hella fun truck.

vanderchevy18 · Feb 12, 2013

Haven't heard that about the fluidampers on the 7.3.

Thinking about tossing my GTX wheel and housing onto a GT chra.....

lincolnlocker · Feb 12, 2013

Mdub707 said:
Are the fluidampr's not a worry on the 7.3 trucks like they are in the 6.0 world? Seems like once every goes to a crazy build like this, they take them off. Seems they've caused more harm than good.

Awesome build man, should be a hella fun truck.

i thought that all stemmed from a bad batch of dampers.

live life full throttle

vanderchevy18 · Feb 12, 2013

I think I just made a decision on the turbo. I'm just going to buy a new chra. There's another $1,500 out the door.

But what's $1,500 when you have $40,000 worth of truck already. LOL

:evil

Yeah. This truck is definitely a mix of emotions.

Vader's Fury · Feb 12, 2013

Why not just go compounds now? Or get a cheaper charger and save the money for your compounds?

vanderchevy18 · Feb 12, 2013

I like the GTX4294. It's the perfect 7.3 turbo. I want to keep it. Besides, later down the road I'll put this engine and a different turbo setup on the race truck. I'll go back to what I had with the GTX and 250/100's on a stock bottom end in the white truck later. I'm just going to gate the hell out of the GTX and spray it the rest of the way for now.