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From: SHELTON, WA
Originally Posted by cchildress
My auto is pretty fast and never misses and never losses boost!!! HaHa!!
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i would say do it for fun but i'd be careful... a 12v with under $500 in engine mods in it can make over 500hp at the wheels.... all he would need is a good clutch and he'd own you (if he knows what he's doing)
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Originally Posted by glasseater
i would say do it for fun but i'd be careful... a 12v with under $500 in engine mods in it can make over 500hp at the wheels.... all he would need is a good clutch and he'd own you (if he knows what he's doing)
Are you serious? 500 gets him 500? WOw, maybe I need to convert my ford to a 12v cummins.........
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From: hillsborough nj
Originally Posted by Todd525
Are you serious? 500 gets him 500? WOw, maybe I need to convert my ford to a 12v cummins.........
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manual tranny should haold that pretty easy. Maybe not their auto, but even then I bet it would be close........ Are you SURE about your statement? My brother bought a edge tuner for his for about 400 bucks, and I know you can get twins for it for about 2800, but 500 bucks to hit 500 ponies seams outrageous to me. I dont know that much about garbage trucks though.........(I.E. Dodge)
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From: hillsborough nj
Originally Posted by Todd525
manual tranny should haold that pretty easy. Maybe not their auto, but even then I bet it would be close........ Are you SURE about your statement? My brother bought a edge tuner for his for about 400 bucks, and I know you can get twins for it for about 2800, but 500 bucks to hit 500 ponies seams outrageous to me. I dont know that much about garbage trucks though.........(I.E. Dodge)
the 12v's are COMPLETELY mechanical... no electronics whatsoever (except to start it)
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From: hillsborough nj
Originally Posted by Todd525
like i said, I dont know anything about dodges....except they are junk.....LOL
haha the 12v's still rule the high hp, dragracing, and sledpulling worlds which is amazing considering how old they are...
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You just throw a bigger fuel plate on a 12 valve and some bigger sticks (ridiculous how cheap they are) and I could see 500 HP easy they just did a 12V dually in Diesel power but they put in like 1200 or so dollars not counting extra coolers and gauges and got an extra 100 HP. I thought of the dark side for a while but a cummins is so easy a caveman could do it. (strokin_it7.3).I don't think I could stand to drive something that ugly, I couldn't go without my blue oval.
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From: hillsborough nj
Originally Posted by Todd525
yeah, but 1200 bucks for an extra 100 hp is a lot more realistic than 500 for an extra 250 hp. O well. them dodge boys gotta do something to keep up with my ol 96....LOL
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We should be talking bout how to make our powerstrokes out run them instead of how cheap they can build a cummins. Thats why powerstrokes are bad *** when they have that much power cause there arent as many as there are cummins bc they are cheap!!!
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Originally Posted by cchildress
We should be talking bout how to make our powerstrokes out run them instead of how cheap they can build a cummins. Thats why powerstrokes are bad *** when they have that much power cause there arent as many as there are cummins bc they are cheap!!!