Recent content by rottenronnie

Calgary (where I live) has 1.7 million people and zero tracks. We have 1 to the north 200 miles and 1 south 200 miles.

Density Altitude

Our D.A. was negative 258 feet today. Typically 5800 to 7500 feet here in the summer.

Yes! We still have around 8 inches of snow and it was close to -20 for a while.

Ray: As all electrical goes through your underhood fuse box and your truck has a complete electrical failure, have a good look at it (particularly the underside of it). Good luck.

Philip Stanhope (4th Earl of Chesterfield) in 1774 wrote a letter to his son, with the help of Yoda (as they were friends)... Mr. Stanhope's position (paraphrasing here): "Anything worth doing, is worth doing well". Yoda's contribution: "Do or do not, there is no try". <end> When you hear...

If it's me you're asking: I coat piston skirts but almost never do the domes in full aluminum engines. I find the retention of dome heat produces better overall performance. Skirt coating is good when/if the piston touches the cylinder wall. Dome coating is to reject heat and that's about it...

Who are you asking??

Oh...and my crank was Nitrided.

Okay good; we both used FF pins and you will too.:)

A properly ported or a BBK throttle body is worth 10 or 11 horsepower. There was some discussion around removing the Intake divider, going with a single blade throttle body, extrude honing the Intake, etc on this and other forums. I went through a few Intake variations on my own with the...

The Striker Intake Port size is the same size as the Gen II Viper engine's. You could use a Gen II Intake Gasket (paper) as a template and port to that. Number 9 is more square than rectangular (on the Gen III, but shares the same volume as the others. IF you port to exactly the Gen II gasket...

Very welcome! Convertors have improved a great deal. The new ones are nothing like the old ones, that felt like you were riding a clutch. And they generated a lot of heat.

Yes

A convertor in the 26-2800 range works well in the Quad Cabs. The stocker is in the 1700 range.