Installed Magnuson's new tune this morning (if you're keeping track its date code is 11-1-2014 so if your tune file ends in a date code prior to that you may want to update). It's a bit shaky b/t 2,500 - 3,500 rpm. Surging. Not sure what they are going for with this tune but it smoothed out after warming up. Stay tuned (terrible pun).
Hit the rev limiter twice this a.m. trying to let the auto trans to upshift on its own. It's amazing, I'll be screaming right along and then whamo!, the RPMs drop and moms in minivans are passing me going uphill on Interstate 287 North (for the Jersey guys).
I spoke with my shop (I was happy to put the S/C in myself but I'm not putting the hemi in). They said it's a complete body-off conversion that takes about two weeks. Still pictures are no problem. They will send them as they go. They have a couple of Go Pro cameras set up in their bays and will try to work with me on time-lapse. I told them that I'd like to cover the conversion on JL and they said they would be glad to work with me on it. Now I need your advice on how that's done.
My pockets aren't endless but it was a good year. I looked at some of Arrington's supercharged hemi options. It's another $8-10k and AEV is complaining about supplying the conversion kit if I'm going for a custom engine. I'll save an LS project for a camaro or corvette. I plan on recovering as much of the conversion cost out of what I have as I can. I have extra stuff like a billet technology catch can (the one that got lost in the mail arrived and I never sent it back for a refund). I have all of my original Sahara parts (bumpers, wheels/tires, springs, etc). I figure I'd throw them all out on ebay or somewhere and get what I can for them. Same for the pentastar I suppose. I really want to tear it down and see how it's stood up to forced induction. Not sure what's going to happen to the Magnuson S/C. Probably sell it.
Look, I'd leave the pentastar on an engine stand if Prodigy or others are really going to offer new pistons or other internals. Happy to build a bulletproof 450bhp pentastar and be jealous of how much less it weighs than the hemi.
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