So it was a Sunday evening a number of months ago, and I had just got home from a race weekend with my trailer. As I got the 5 gal bucket, brush, and purple power out, I thought to myself... Im tired of this, spending an hour washing the blowby off of my 30ft trailer, while being wore out from two days of racing action, and would rather be in bed sleeping...

So Brandon (Dirtydiesel91) said he had an extra 7.3 he would sell me, so I pulled the trigger. Nothing fancy, just an N/A 7.3, oily as an IDI gets. It looked well used, but not in terrible shape. Its been on an engine stand in my garage ever since, waiting, while I have pondered an approach on where to take it. Some of you who have seen my other 7.3 "build" may be wondering why, when I just did this less than a year ago... Well two reasons, 1) My current 7.3 bottom end is a completely stock, right down to the Oil pan RTV, the only change was a cam... It has 180k on it, which is fine for a stock turbo putting out 10psi, but Ive been putting 20+ psi on this thing for the last 15k with the stock compression ratio... Not too easy on rings. Dont get me wrong, the truck runs excellent, I could probably put another 100k on it in its current state... However, I dont like the CC vapor, and I dont like the dripping seals, and thats with a VERY ventilated crankcase...2) because I have been wanting to pull the IDIT and basically built it to take absolutely anything I can throw at it. Thing about that is I have to have something to put into its place. Now I could just have re-ringed the N/A engine and tossed it in place of the IDIT, re-used my current setup, and toss my stock pump on it and been fine, and would have done its job just great... But I dont have an attention span that would tolerate such a decision... So here I am...

I have named this the v1.5 build because its not really an official build, its just something to last me a year or so until I get my IDIT finished. Now one thing I decided on was that I wanted to utilize an 093 kit, and essentially have THE optimized stock setup from hell. There was a lot of chatter around the time I dyno'd my truck, that it wasnt that impressive for being a custom setup, because it only made so much power... Well Im here to set that record straight, and bust my current numbers by a long shot... With a stock based setup... The plan is to upgrade where needed, bomb proof the N/A bottom end (As far as an N/A bottom end can be bomb proofed) and improve where I can. So far the plans look like this (Stay tuned for the details):

-Stock 093 Kit, Custom crossover, blended passages, external WG
-Custom Garrett based Turbo, 3" dp to 4" exhaust
-New intake
-New Cam to my specs
-Shaved/Coated Pistons
-Significant Port work
-Studded
-Plenty O' fuel

I will also keep track of the costs associated with it, for those who may want a similar setup in the future. The idea is to push the stock setup about as far is anyone needs to go with a stock setup. I am a big fan of custom builds, and my next one will be one, but I think most IDI'rs can relate more to a build like this, and once they see it CAN be done, maybe more will take interest in modding one...

Anyway... Got the engine tore down today, here is some pics:










If you notice anything funny in the pics... It wasnt my fault... Somebody decided it would be fun to get wonky with things before it was in my hands...

Anyway, next step is to clean it all up and see what I have to work with...

Stay Tuned...

 

"like"

Wonky as it gets LOL

 

Id like to see what you do different with the 093, I am running an 093 and would like to see how to make it more powerfull and efficient. good luck on the "build"!

 

gonna be sick. can't wait to see what you do with the turbo.

 

Lets see it happen, as i said, i have something like this in mind for my NA after i pull it so it has a use.

 

very awesome build!!

Cant wait to see videos of the truck rocking along

 

don't put it back together like that lol

 

Justin, since you are gonna do a 093 based setup on the 1.5, are you just going to use the turbo setup that is on your truck now on the full IDIT build?

 

No, I have something far crazier in mind... ill decide what I'm going to do with my current setup after I get this one in, I might just keep it around for another project or something...

 

Sounds good. I could always give that pump a good test after I get my truck here in a month... jk...unless you really wanted me to. Haha. Anyway, I look forward to the builds. You should still dyno it on your current setup though like you mentioned previously. I would be curious what it did at 30psi on stock compression.Will the IP be done by time the dyno day happens August 18th?

 

by the time you have this done, I should have my new engine done too.

 

You find a line on that Dmax you've been looking for?...:P

Looking to have this done no later than early-mid september...

 

Ok, I guess you'll be done before me.

 

What engine are you building now Justin(NMB2)?

 

LB7 race truck