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Message: [QUOTE="sootie, post: 1498090, member: 8162"] Like i mentioned in post #10, the Edge CTS2 Monitor would be the best. You will need quality tuning as well. I recommend Gear Head on the SCT platform. Ditch the K&N intake, it will dust your engine. Go with a No Limit Fabrication one. With that many miles, and planning on keeping it for many more as well as adding power, I would rebuild it. That being said, we have a truck with many more miles than that on a stock bottom end and it runs fine. It is a tune only truck though so sub 400HP. Yes the ZF6 manual trans was an option in these trucks. We have one and it is an ABSOLUTE TURD to drive. You think you hate the truck now, wait until it has a manual... I would do a bottom end refresh, so new bearings, gaskets and rings. If you can get away with a cylinder hone-great. If not, a .020 bore and new pistons. Have the block checked for flatness. Make sure you replace the lifters when it is apart. Inspect the front cover behind the water pump for cavitation. Always a good idea to replace the oil pump. Send the heads out to get magnafluxed and decked. Reinstall the heads with OEM gaskets and ARP head studs. Deelet the egr. Go with some heavier valve springs. If any of the pistons have valve marks in them, make sure those valves get replaced as well as the piston. Install a mew OEM oil cooler. Install a coolant filter. You now need to choose a turbo and injector builder. I wont begin to say i am an expert on injector sizing but i think 175/30s should get you where you wnat power wise, paired with a good stage 1 or 2 turbo from a vendor of choice. I would look hard at KC Turbo. Biggest thing is to get a finger on the pulse of where you are now, before you start ripping things apart. [/QUOTE]