Lil' Bogie...AKA my truck

Lol yep 4bbl with adapter.... Loose a touch more on the bottom, but with boost the gains outweigh the losses

Well... Todays score..... A $45 set of hoosier cheater slicks......

Next on the parts list....hehehe let the fun begin


Also picked up a set of forged rods, a 220/230 114lsa 507 lift cam, some heads, head studs, roller rockers, and pushrods.....still need more forged goodies though...LOL

todays pick up... ended up fighting with trying to polish the rims to no avail.... got em back from powdercoat today, pics mounted later this week...i had to drop em and run to work, and wont be able to get em on the truck til the weekend most likely...



what you cant reallly se is that even though its a flat finish, it has a metal/prism flake in it that pops when in the sun.... the actual gray is within a shade or two of the gray on the lower portion of the truck....

oh yeah..almost forgot what came last week....hehehe

nice!

See i told ya you would like what i was going to do with them.....LOL you were all meh before...

Lil Boogie is growing up!!!!!

Shawn1112 wrote:

Lil Boogie is growing up!!!!!

haha yep...should be in the neighborhood of 450-500 at the wheels when its done....

Holy Shit!!!!!!

Hehehe yep... With the mods i have it will have good pep... This turbo made 560some hp on a 5.2 with a mild cam and no other mods (twisted a rod a month later), i will have lightly ported heads, 220/230 .507 lift 114lsa cam, roller rockers, m1 4bbl single plane intake, and all forged internals....weak point of my build will be the block....

So. There are other Dakota owners on this forum.

Yep.... You go by slokota on any dak forums? Im bogieboy pretty much everywhere...LOL

I'm Axiom on DakotaRT and Dak-Dur. SLOKOTA is just the plate on my truck.

Ahh ok i am over on dak dur.... Used to be more active there before steve sold the site....

bogieboy wrote:

Ahh ok i am over on dak dur.... Used to be more active there before steve sold the site....

Yeah I mainly stick to DakotaRT. I browse RaceMagnum occasionally. Never posted though.

there are a couple more here but they have been MIA a bit this year for some reason.

jontoad wrote:

there are a couple more here but they have been MIA a bit this year for some reason.

I'd be more active if I could get this damn thing running. Need someone to finish the short block and drop it in but I don't have $2500 for it.

Haha finish it yourself.... Thats what i am doing...only thing i am outsourcing is the block machine work.... And the balancing of the crank and such..... I will be assembling it all myself....

And i been too busy working lately to be more active here....LOL we gotta meet up sometime man....

bogieboy wrote:

Haha finish it yourself.... Thats what i am doing...only thing i am outsourcing is the block machine work.... And the balancing of the crank and such..... I will be assembling it all myself....

Don't know how and I'm not risking $3000 worth of parts on a learning experience.

Axiom wrote:

bogieboy wrote:

Haha finish it yourself.... Thats what i am doing...only thing i am outsourcing is the block machine work.... And the balancing of the crank and such..... I will be assembling it all myself....

Don't know how and I'm not risking $3000 worth of parts on a learning experience.

honestly its not that hard...

bogieboy wrote:

Axiom wrote:

bogieboy wrote:

Haha finish it yourself.... Thats what i am doing...only thing i am outsourcing is the block machine work.... And the balancing of the crank and such..... I will be assembling it all myself....

Don't know how and I'm not risking $3000 worth of parts on a learning experience.

honestly its not that hard...

I beg to differ. Never having done it before I don't even know where to start.

Axiom wrote:

bogieboy wrote:

Axiom wrote:

bogieboy wrote:

Haha finish it yourself.... Thats what i am doing...only thing i am outsourcing is the block machine work.... And the balancing of the crank and such..... I will be assembling it all myself....

Don't know how and I'm not risking $3000 worth of parts on a learning experience.

honestly its not that hard...

I beg to differ. Never having done it before I don't even know where to start.

honestly an engine isnt near as complex as it seems... You got a crank, rods, pistons, block to hold them, cam (s) lifters, pushrods, rockers, valves, water and oil pump, bearings, and gaskets... Knowing what each part does and how it does it is pretty simple, knowing that it goes together a certain way to make it do its job is easy too...when the block and rotating assy is out, they will check all clearances on bearings, so it literally becomes a bolt it together and go affair...if you can turn a wrench you can build an engine...if you can use a micrometer or feeler gauge, you can do 99% of it yourself...

Im not trying to be cocky or anything, an engine is really simpler than it seems... I never tore down a block before, and i had the engine i am building go from whole engine (intake to oilpan, waterpump to crank output) down to a pile of parts in about 2 hrs...remember i have never pulled apart an engine bigger than a briggs 5hp.... They arent really that complicated unless you get into the variable valve timed engines, dohc, etc...

Also, not trying to force you into it, if you arent comfortable with doing it thats your call man, not mine...

bogieboy wrote:

Axiom wrote:

bogieboy wrote:

Axiom wrote:

bogieboy wrote:

Haha finish it yourself.... Thats what i am doing...only thing i am outsourcing is the block machine work.... And the balancing of the crank and such..... I will be assembling it all myself....

Don't know how and I'm not risking $3000 worth of parts on a learning experience.

honestly its not that hard...

I beg to differ. Never having done it before I don't even know where to start.

honestly an engine isnt near as complex as it seems... You got a crank, rods, pistons, block to hold them, cam (s) lifters, pushrods, rockers, valves, water and oil pump, bearings, and gaskets... Knowing what each part does and how it does it is pretty simple, knowing that it goes together a certain way to make it do its job is easy too...when the block and rotating assy is out, they will check all clearances on bearings, so it literally becomes a bolt it together and go affair...if you can turn a wrench you can build an engine...if you can use a micrometer or feeler gauge, you can do 99% of it yourself...

Im not trying to be cocky or anything, an engine is really simpler than it seems... I never tore down a block before, and i had the engine i am building go from whole engine (intake to oilpan, waterpump to crank output) down to a pile of parts in about 2 hrs...remember i have never pulled apart an engine bigger than a briggs 5hp.... They arent really that complicated unless you get into the variable valve timed engines, dohc, etc...

Also, not trying to force you into it, if you arent comfortable with doing it thats your call man, not mine...

My problem is that I've never been able to learn by reading. I very much learn by doing. The problem with that here is if I do something wrong while learning. There's potentially thousands of dollars going down the drain. I have no doubt that I could do it. I would just need someone there to walk me through the first time. Then I have no doubt I could build another engine without issue.