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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 07:25 PM
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Maybe so, but that's probably just counting the hard parts which he gets at cost and not the machine work. It will also very likely be freshened up after every race/pulling season if it doesn't pop during the season. One thing it will not be is a 20,000 mile per year daily driver. I rather doubt it's even streetable at that power level.
 
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 08:34 PM
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beans diesel performance had thier truck in diesel power magazine it has 900 hp and he said it would take about 15k to build it like his
The SouperDooty? He bought that with no engine and built a twin turbo common rail Cummins to put in it.
 
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 10:59 PM
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girdle, does that mean head-studs because that was what I was going to say. You can spend half that on a BTS auto to take the power!
No. I would recomend studs with stage 2's. Anything over 40lb of boost is an the danger zone of streching stock head bolts. Girlde is way different. It keeps the block from twisting and cracking
 
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 11:57 PM
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You could always do a cummins swap. One of my buddies swapped a 12V into his 1996 F350. Out runs my powerstroke. If my engine ever pops, I'm probably going cummins or built powerstroke.
 
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Old Apr 30, 2009 | 03:59 PM
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no the truck in the magazine is a obs and he painted the powerstroke block yellow
 
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Old Apr 30, 2009 | 04:49 PM
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This one?
YouTube - Sapps 7.3 Powerstroke 11.73 @114
That's Craigs truck.
 
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Originally Posted by wmiller
No. I would recomend studs with stage 2's. Anything over 40lb of boost is an the danger zone of streching stock head bolts. Girlde is way different. It keeps the block from twisting and cracking
Now I'm really going to ask a dumb question, what exacty is a girlde?
 
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Old May 1, 2009 | 05:44 AM
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Now I'm really going to ask a dumb question, what exacty is a girlde?
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