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8-12-2013
Right on, it is fun. I'll do my best to take pictures of critical moments.
@ ArcherAce, I don't want to be misleading about the price, so I will just say how I went about finding it. I went on Arrington's site and found the SC that fit my year. They have 3 different setups. The prices between these kits can vary like $1500. I do not want to be misleading and list a price which is not for your car. Look it up bro, any vendor has some options.
@ Hemi1031, you can choose to have it tuned after the install. The canned tune is good but I'm sure if you are on a set of rollers they will get a little more power outta it and a slightly better curve. Remember this SCer has been around a while with many, many cars tuned for it. Of course the canned tune will be on the safer side. Personally I am gonna get a tune after I get my LT's.
Good news... Everything should be here Tuesday. I will be waiting on the dogbone and a gates belt because I ordered that today, but they are in stock so I do not plan on these items delaying the install.
Couple of quick suggestions:
1. Take pictures of all the packets separately. Things may very well be missing, so to save you tearing up your garage and pulling your hair out wondering if you misplaced it, you have the pics to see if it was in the pack. All the stages are in separate bags, so that's easy enough. You should be good with the 5.7 kit since they have been shipping them for years, but the 6.4 kit had some growing pains still.
2. An easy way to perfectly line up the Maggie and not have gasket slide around or be trying to get all the holes to line up is to take 4 of the original bolts (it will come with new bolts), cut the heads off and clean them up a bit, then just with your fingers, screw them back into the block enough that they are sturdy but standing tall. You can then lift the Maggie over these guide bolts and it will slide right into place. You can then put in a couple of the new bolts, and take guide bolts out again. Perfect way to slip it right into place.
Good luck, look forward to the burn-out video at the end.
END TEMPLATE: bbcode_quote Changing the old bolts into studs for alignment is a very sharp idea, we use tricks like that at work but I never though of applying it here, thank you.
I did plan on taking pictures of the inventory but not for the reason you stated. It seems your full of good ideas. Thanks for sharing some with us.
8-13-2013
The packages arrived at 2:00pm... No Black box ( Arrington's Tune) and no fuel pump, which I expected to wait for. The weirdest part is EVERYTHING says 6.4L..... The instructions even deal with the power steering cooler which R/T's do not have. The hangers for the heat exchanger do not fit correctly.... It is not possible to mount the heat exchanger to the A/C condenser securely.... A call to Arrington will fix this problem but my install will not be completed until next week, SO STAY TUNED XD
Little update. I took out the back seat in anticipation of the fuel pump install. I also removed the radiator to ease the process of pinning the crank. This part was not in the instructions but I feel this will allow me to work on it much, much easier.
Here are a few pics of the pieces I removed so far. About 80% need to be put back on. This will help give someone new to this install a clue of how involved the process is. I did not bother to take a picture of the back seat and splash guards, but they are in the pile too!
Most of the parts delivered. Still waiting on a black box, a fuel pump, badges, new heat exchanger hangers, and God knows what else until this is 100% complete.
Things are going well though considering. I pinned the crank tonight which is something I worried about a little. Word to the wise.... this thing did not come with dowels... I tend to keep things around and luckily I had some pieces of solid round that were close to 5/8" to use instead. Made progress in other areas but decided not to push it after dinner, nothing like cutting a hose too short because your in a rush. I don't have the parts to finish soon anyhow so I decided to enjoy the install!!!!!
Dowels are just cylinders. They can be any material, length, and diameter. Since we are dealing with nearly 130 ft lbs you really need metal dowels or very hard wood like oak. You can look around the garage and use 1/2 or 5/8 diameter bolts, but not many people have these lying around ( I do but I also have metal dowels for this).
Well imagine the crank pulley looks somewhat like a Ritz cracker or a honeycomb, but more like a ritz cracker with a bolt going through the middle. If you just place a socket on the bolt and try to turn it the pulley will just spin like a wheel. You place a dowel in one if the holes and then another dowel in a nearby hole.... then you stick a prybar between the dowels to keep the crank pulley from spinning. It makes a lot of sense when your doing it, it's very similar to replacing a lawnmower blade.