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burningman
Dec 11, 2018Explorer II
I’ve had three VP44s in 100k miles.
The vast majority don’t make it as far as yours somehow did.
Here’s an extremely entertaining bit of educational material :)
It sums up my situation exactly!
The VP44 Solution According To Wesley
There’s a reason so many people throw those things in the trash and retrofit the mechanical P-pump that several companies do good business selling kits for it.
700 horsepower is easy with a relatively inexpensive set of injectors, some pump tweaking, and a second turbo. Really, you can put however much power you want in whatever vehicle you want. You might break a thing or twelve along the way learning how...
About the trans, about $5000 will make the 47RE from the 24-valve more bulletproof than you’ll ever need.
But having said all that, I’d still recommend a new or newer gas truck.
The vast majority don’t make it as far as yours somehow did.
Here’s an extremely entertaining bit of educational material :)
It sums up my situation exactly!
The VP44 Solution According To Wesley
There’s a reason so many people throw those things in the trash and retrofit the mechanical P-pump that several companies do good business selling kits for it.
700 horsepower is easy with a relatively inexpensive set of injectors, some pump tweaking, and a second turbo. Really, you can put however much power you want in whatever vehicle you want. You might break a thing or twelve along the way learning how...
About the trans, about $5000 will make the 47RE from the 24-valve more bulletproof than you’ll ever need.
But having said all that, I’d still recommend a new or newer gas truck.
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