I keep reading everyones signatures and all yalls upgrades on your trucks and stuff and some of its some pretty insane stuff. I just have a question regarding how practical all this stuff is on a daily driver/work truck that has to pull trailers everyday and get you from point a to point b reliably.I'm pretty into it, and wana make sure I'm still gona be able to use my truck for everyday stuff before I do all these upgrades on mine. I guess my question is, can you still use a truck with 600+ hp for everday work and pulling or does it get too extreme? I just wana know how many of you actually use your trucks and how many of you bought em just to hotrod.

 

I pull 18,000-25,000 daily. Im about to get a smarty, TB exhaust, quad commander next month. Thats all im probably gonna do do my truck till something breaks. Then upgrade that. I dont race NONE!!!!!!!!!

P.S. bout to get amsoil oil bypass filter kit also w/ synthetic amsoil

 

If you do the right supporting mods with your upgrades then it will be just as reliable if not more reliable than it is now. You just have to be smart with the newfound power.

 

I have to turn down the tuning with my truck when Im hauling or the coolant will get hot. Other than that its pretty much the perfect work truck.

 

Thats what I like to hear. I'm really safe with mine but I also have a lot of plans. I know if you upgrade everything it'll be just as reliable if not more than stock. I just have people tellin me all the time that I'm a dumb A for doing all the stuff I am doing and plan to do to a truck that I have to drive every day and work, and pull trailers with. Thanks for the reassurance on the way I was already thinking. I just wanted some more feedback

 

Since I have had 0 problems either before or after modding, I can just add that I have found the mods i have done to really enhance what I can do. The truck doesn't seem to work as hard to do the same things. As far as mileage, as long as I drive it easy, I get from 1.5-2 mpg better than just stock. I commute 135 mile a day too. And tow heavy every once in a while.

 

What I found is that my towing started to suffer over 500hp. You will need to stay small or stock injectors or go with compound turbos of you want to make the 600hp mark and still tow nicely.

 

for a 600hp "Reliable" daily puller it will cost more b/c you will do a lot better off with twins.
Programmer and box 500-1000.
tranny 4-7k,
twins 3-4k,
intake, exhaust 600,
Gauges 3-400,
studs and springs 1k,
injectors 800,
upgraded cp3 1200,
lift pump 400,
intercooler boots 200

ave. total... 13,500 doing most urself.

could poss. get away without injectors and cp3 for a while but others will chime in. good luck

 

Thanks for the advice. I kinda already knew alot of that but I like to hear other peoples experience. I know exactly what I want to do to my truck its just getting the money to do it one piece at a time, and doing it in the most efficient order. Plus working and going to college while paying truck payment, rent and diesel,with the outrageous prices, and making sure I have enought for tuition and books it makes it hard to have money to spare for the extra stuff

 

Well thats my goal to hit eventually.( To have a 600 horse daily driver that will tow like a son of a gun, get good mileage, be reliable, and still go to the track and smoke ricers and other gassers) But I've got a long way to go

 

The best running truck I have is my 04 6 speed (work truck). It has Smarty stacked with MP-8, an intake, muffle delete, and a glacier diesel lift pump. Pretty much it(besides south bend clutch). Never had a problem!!! It's a trooper and gets 22mpg! Pulls a 10000 trailer evey other week.

 

R your egts not pretty high when pulling though?

 

I don't know about him, but I can tell you this past summer I was doing 75mph up a 7% grade, at 5000ft elevation, 104* outside, towing 10K, and max egts were 1300-1350. Fuel mileage for the whole trip 13+. But then again, I do have twins!!

 

sliqwille04, your egts dont get high even when not towing? I have a smarty and with it on just level 5 my egts can get up to 1500 not towing anything, although that is when i get on it. I am looking at turbos now just for that reason.

 

Ya twins are the way to go, but obviously you gotta have the money. I ran my truck with smarty for a day just trying it out and my egts were outrageous