Quoted from Roostking:Got my new pinhauler. 2010 Dodge Ram 1500 Hemi. So far, so good!!
Congrats!
Love the hood on the Challenger too 
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Quoted from Roostking:Nice hoodspotting too. That is a 1 of 5 Carbon fiber hoods in that model and really works well with the Toxic Orange paint.
Is this you?
Thought that hood looked familiar. 
Speedlogix is 20 min from my house. I have probably covered a few of their mortgage payments with all the suspension work I have done to my Challenger. 
Quoted from Roostking:Digging your SRT Challenger too, awesome cars aren't they! 70,000 miles and running strong!
Thanks!
I love it, only have 15k on mine. Looking forward to the next track night.
Quoted from Roostking:Awesome pic! I'd like to get into some handling stuff like that, what are some mods you have done? Not trying to get crazy, but basics to keep the car running and stopping lol
Billet adjustable upper and lower control arms, K&W springs with adjustable ride height, bigger sway bars and billet end links, billet trailing arms, solid cradle mounts, weld in subframe connectors, tuned PCM, Hawk performance brake pads, DOT 4 brake fluid and more. 
If you want the most bang for your buck, just do the weld in subframe connectors. Turns it into a completely different car handling wise without sacrificing ride quality. They tuck up tight and don't effect ground clearance.
Quoted from VacFink:I'll second that, and they keep the body in tact. Way back in the day when my friends and I all drove built Fox 5 liters on and off track, we were hanging out at a friends apartment before Friday Night Drags. From the 2nd story we were looking down at our line up and noticed the cars without subframe connectors were all cracking at the peak of the a-piller and windshield on the passenger side.
It was fun to see confirmation that we were doing it right, having fun with those cars. Glad to see the mopar guys doing the same these days.
I had a 91' LX 5.0 years ago, what a fun car! In that one all I did was change the old, worn out rubber bushings to urethane, man what a difference on the track. Weld in parts were out of reach for me back then.
The handling of the stock SRT is really good, especially considering the Challenger is a tank at well over 4000 pounds. Anything that can be done to stiffen it up is good assuming you want more than the stock handling.
I just love the classic muscle car looks. The new Camaros, Mustangs, and Corvettes are better handling out of the box but their looks don't do it for me personally.
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Quoted from Roostking:Drop in forged pistons are required really for anything over 6lbs boost. The ring lands are too high in the Piston.
On mine all it took was a tune and some open track days at the road course.....
Oh well, fully forged 426 will be here this week. 
Quoted from Roostking:I want to simultaniously upvote and downvote at the same time!!
I have 76,000 regular hard miles, not track miles on my 2011 392 and Ive been thinking about a forged 426. Can I ask who you are working with?
Ordered it through HHP (High Horse Performance) BES is doing the build.
Quoted from crlush:Did the valve hit the piston?
Doesn't appear that it did. Only head damage seems to be "piece of the piston bouncing around". 3 cylinders on the drivers side were damaged, didn't even pull the passenger side.
Quoted from crlush:Its just funny that it broke off right at the valve relief, figured you over revved it and the valve hit it from valve float.
That's exactly what I thought when they told me the pistons broke but it doesn't appear to be the case. It's an A8 that I run in track mode so over revving wasn't the culprit. Chrysler blamed the tune and washed their hands of it. I've had the tune looked at by 2 other tuners and they said rev limits are intact, fuel is not aggressive, just a small amount of timing. This is a 2015 SRT 392.
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Quoted from littlecammi:...and it will be a real sleeper once you install it in a 1987 Yugo.
I went with the 86', the 87' didn't have the "sleeper wood" option available........
Quoted from MrBally:Nice, even your shop rags are high-end. Griots?
They are the "shop's" rags so unknown, I'm having them do the install.
Quoted from MustangPaul:Oh man look at the size of those intake ports.
Can't wait to see what it is capable of, going to remote dyno tune it so I will post the numbers once I get it done.
Quoted from MustangPaul:My buddy has a blown hemi in his 67 Bellvader street car (sorry for the spelling LOL) It makes around 760hp
That's awesome!
This will be normally aspirated and should make mid 500hp at the wheels, stock 392 makes about 420 depending on the dyno.
I like the road course better then the drag strip these days so I went NA with the option of adding a blower later.
They claim they have used this build reliably up to 900+ hp and reliability is what I am looking for.
Quoted from Travish:5 hp. Oh wait, that would double it. Make that 2 extra hp.
The Murphys Oil Soap Mod will net 5hp..... 
Quoted from MustangPaul:Sweet. I like the road course more too....it lasts longer. I went for a ride along in my buddies 70 Mach 1 RR car at Daytona this past December, talk about brutal...WOW. Close to 170 on the front straight. Nuthin like hot sticky race tires in the corners and the bank turns WOW!!!
So cool!
I'm trying REALLY HARD to not build a racecar out of this one. In the past I have taken cars I loved, over moded them, and ended up hating them.
So far I still love the Challenger. It's a monster on the track, freaks everyone out because it handles like it's on rails yet weighs 4400 lbs. I drive it everyday.
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Quoted from crlush:Well whats tbe numbers?
First pull, rich as hell. Look at the air fuel at the bottom.....
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Quoted from Fulltilt:I don't know what it is... Mazeratis popping up all around the town. And I'm in N.E. Tennessee!
Closest Mazerati dealer is a good 90+ miles away... I don't think so.
Same thing here.
Possibly due to the lease special I have seen advertised, $699 month.
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