First mod to the R/T

[garner]

Did the first mod to the R/T today, dumped the exhaust under the cab from before the muffler back. All that's left is the manifolds and the pipe that goes from the manifolds into one pipe. Sounds pretty good, just gotta figure out how to mount the tips or get an outdoorsman/trx bumper without the exhaust cutouts and get it painted black. I'll get pics and hopefully video tomorrow

[SmokedRam]

pics or it didnt happen...LOL...I kid, anyways, why didnt you put this in the 4th section?

[garner]

Lol I forgot about that. If a mod could please move it to 4th gen section

[RamSport97]

Ah man...you're going to ditch that cool rear bumper with the exhaust cut outs? I really liked that feature.

[garner]

Ah man...you're going to ditch that cool rear bumper with the exhaust cut outs? I really liked that feature.

If I can't find a way to mount the tips, I'll probably have to. Doesn't look good with open holes in the bumper

[txbass06]

Ah man...you're going to ditch that cool rear bumper with the exhaust cut outs? I really liked that feature.

Same here. Wonder if it would work on a 2nd gen lol


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[SmokedRam]

dumped>coming out of the bumper....


LOL, I had too

[OklaHemi]

Sweetness did you get a vid yet

[garner]

Sweetness did you get a vid yet

I'll probably get one tomorrow

[Storm Rider]

Always seems as if the exhaust is the very first mod most people do. Can't wait to see the video.

[Redtruck-VA]

Sounds like a roll pan solution...

[AWE Daniel]

What kind of exhaust do you have again garner? Is it just straight piped?

[garner]

What kind of exhaust do you have again garner? Is it just straight piped?

Right now all that's under there is the manifolds and the pipe that connects the manifolds. It's dumped under the cab

[RamSport97]

dumped>coming out of the bumper....


LOL, I had too

not :)

[Redtruck-VA]

Hilarious ....

[NOTPAID4]

Congrats on your 1st MOD!!! Hope there are many more to come!!!

[garner]

Not the best pics but sort of gives an idea of what's left
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[Storm Rider]

That has got to be loud. I bet your folks can tell when you are coming home by a few blocks. LOL

[garner]

Yeah my mom can definitely hear me. Surprised I haven't gotten any complaints from the neighbors lol

[johnnysart]

I'm sure it sounds badasss--congrats.

[garner]

I'm sure it sounds badasss--congrats.

Thanks




Ok everybody I need some help. Thinking of painting the engine cover but not sure what colors. Was thinking like a hemi orange but not sure how well that would go with a black truck or I was thinking of doing a black and red to go along with the R/T badge. What do you guys think? Throw out your own ideas too

[garner]

Tuning really needs to come out for the 2011s. Not a big fan of 3000 rpm at 80 mph cause I have to have it in 5 to stop mds from turning on

[SLT8]

I think it will look good. Got a few engine pieces painted Hemi orange and my exterior is Black with some Red. That said i am going to lose the exterior Red and go with Hemi Orange (Hood Scoop, Calipers)
Thanks




Ok everybody I need some help. Thinking of painting the engine cover but not sure what colors. Was thinking like a hemi orange but not sure how well that would go with a black truck or I was thinking of doing a black and red to go along with the R/T badge. What do you guys think? Throw out your own ideas too

[Redtruck-VA]

Tuning really needs to come out for the 2011s. Not a big fan of 3000 rpm at 80 mph cause I have to have it in 5 to stop mds from turning on

Pls explain what you are saying. What I understand is the R/T has a 4:10 gear and 31" tall tires. How are you turning 3k at 80 mph?

[garner]

Pls explain what you are saying. What I understand is the R/T has a 4:10 gear and 31" tall tires. How are you turning 3k at 80 mph?

I'm manually shifted into 5 which raises the rpm. I do this because mds still kicks in at 80 and makes drone horrible. And I'm running a 32" tire, 285 45 22

[Redtruck-VA]

I thought the R/T's had a 5 spd auto and 2012 will have the 6 spd. So you have a 6 spd?

[garner]

I thought the R/T's had a 5 spd auto and 2012 will have the 6 spd. So you have a 6 spd?

I have a 5 speed. You can manually select gears and to make sure mds doesn't turn on you put it in 5

[Redtruck-VA]

Sorry, I'm not following how putting in 5th (high) gear is raising RPM at cruise unless it is unlocking the torque converter. But still the R/T converter is something like a 2400 stall, which still wouldn't get 3k at 80.

[garner]

Sorry, I'm not following how putting in 5th (high) gear is raising RPM at cruise unless it is unlocking the torque converter. But still the R/T converter is something like a 2400 stall, which still wouldn't get 3k at 80.

Greg I'll try to get a buddy to take a pic when I'm driving later today and post it up

[Redtruck-VA]

Cool, I don't cruise at 80, a video would be great.

[garner]

Here you go Greg. It's actually about 2700-2800 when shifted into 5 and about 2400 when shifted out. The raise in rpm(to 3000) you see is when I shift it out of 5

http://s1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/garner3/?action=view&current=VIDEO0012.mp4

[SmokedRam]

what ratio is the OD in a 4th gen? and you have 4.11 running gear Garner?

[garner]

what ratio is the OD in a 4th gen? and you have 4.11 running gear Garner?

545 RFE gear ratios:

1st 3.00:1
2nd 1.67:1
2nd prime 1.50:1
3rd 1.00:1
4th 0.75:1
5th 0.67:1
Reverse 3.00:1

4.10 rearend gear ratio with 32" tires

[garner]

Thinking about putting the exhaust back on. Gone through $170 of gas since monday and only gone about 500 miles. So with gas costing $3.60 a gallon for 89 that's 47.2 gallons which means about 10.6 mpg even though my evic average is saying 14.5. I haven't reset it in a couple of weeks so that's not the issue and the whole time the evic has been reading between 14 mpg and 16 mpg for my average. Only real thing I've done to the evic was pull the negative battery cable about a month ago cause leaving school my average went from 15 to 14.4 in about half a mile without hitting the reset button so I thought it was a glitch. Thinking that dumping the exhaust might have caused an exhaust leak so hopefully putting the exhaust back on and pulling the negative battery cable again will solve the issue

[SmokedRam]

How many miles have you ran up on that thing since you go it Garner? I know you drive the hell out of it.

[AWE Daniel]

You should be getting way more than 10, or even 15, unless you are driving it that crazy. Hell I get 15, with MDS you should be getting what I get at least

[garner]

How many miles have you ran up on that thing since you go it Garner? I know you drive the hell out of it.

About 14,500 since november. Second oil change coming up probably next month or october

[garner]

You should be getting way more than 10, or even 15, unless you are driving it that crazy. Hell I get 15, with MDS you should be getting what I get at least

I keep it under 3000 rpm the majority of the time. Except I've been opening it up a little more this tank which is why I went from 16 to low 14s mpg. It's not the 14ish mpg that worries me though. It's that my evic is reading higher than I'm getting

[SmokedRam]

Isnt that pretty common with the evic though, it reading higher than actual?

[garner]

Isnt that pretty common with the evic though, it reading higher than actual?

Mine has always been right on or it read a little lower than what I was actually getting

[AWE Daniel]

I keep it under 3000 rpm the majority of the time. Except I've been opening it up a little more this tank which is why I went from 16 to low 14s mpg. It's not the 14ish mpg that worries me though. It's that my evic is reading higher than I'm getting

Welcome to Dodge, nice to meet you



lol, The EVIC will ALWAYS read high, not sure why but every car does it. Mine says 15.8, but I usually read 14.9 with the calculator

[AWE Daniel]

Isnt that pretty common with the evic though, it reading higher than actual?

Dammit you beat me to it

[garner]

Welcome to Dodge, nice to meet you



lol, The EVIC will ALWAYS read high, not sure why but every car does it. Mine says 15.8, but I usually read 14.9 with the calculator

Daniel read my reply to Adam. Mine has always been right on or reading lower than what I actually was getting

[AWE Daniel]

You said it's been a few tanks since you reset it, it reads everything from the last reset, you won't see big swings, just an average

[garner]

You said it's been a few tanks since you reset it, it reads everything from the last reset, you won't see big swings, just an average

I get what your saying. When I saw the drop from 16 to 14 it was actually trying to show me that I was only getting 10 without actually being able to show 10. So I should reset it every time I fill up?

[4XLGator]

When I'm asked what mileage I get, I've always answered with what I see on the EVIC. But, I've always heard it's never right. So, I calculated my mileage the old fashioned way for the last two tanks of fuel. For those last two tanks, the EVIC read from 13.9mpg to 14.4mpg, and my calculations yielded 12.6mpg and 12.8mpg. So, my EVIC is incorrect high.

[AWE Daniel]

Nah i don't

[garner]

Well put the exhaust back on and I like my truck better with the exhaust. While I love the noise with it dumped, I love the quietness while cruising with the exhaust on. It's gonna take some getting used to since I can't hear the exhaust at all, so hopefully I don't get any speeding tickets lol

[AWE Daniel]

Cutout time!

[garner]

Cutout time!

Thinking about it. Next exhaust mod will probably be cat back and cutout, hopefully the cat back won't be as loud as dumped. I would mount the cutout after the y pipe and before the muffler right?

[AWE Daniel]

Yessir

[garner]

Thinking of buying some platidip for the badges, wheels, and exhaust tips; and red paint for the calipers. What do you guys think?


Mods or admin, could somebody rename this thread Garner's R/T build thread or something similar please?

[AWE Daniel]

Plasti-dip is of the devil, but do paint the calipers, that would be cool

[garner]

Plasti-dip is of the devil, but do paint the calipers, that would be cool

I just need something to see what the truck would look like blacked out

[NOTPAID4]

I'll be looking forward to this too!!!!!!!!!!!!

[johnnysart]

Garner post up some LARGE pic's of what you want painted in the engine and a side pic of your truck so we can chop what you want. I'm thinking the red and black theme would look badass just because the rt red badges.

[garner]

Garner post up some LARGE pic's of what you want painted in the engine and a side pic of your truck so we can chop what you want. I'm thinking the red and black theme would look badass just because the rt red badges.

I'll go take some pics and post them up

[ramthis9501]

Plasti-dip is of the devil, but do paint the calipers, that would be cool

What's wrong with plastidip??

[garner]

So what I'm thinking on the side is blacking out the badges and wheels. Red calipers too. And I'm gonna be doing the fender stripes with R/T underneath in flat black and possibly the mopar hood stripes

http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/garner3/IMAG0145.jpg


The front I want to blackout the headlights(like the lens not the inside) and do the same to the fog lights. All this will happen after I get HID of course. And blackout the ram badge. R/T badge is missing cause going down the highway something hit my grille taking off the badge, shoving in the honey comb, and popping out the grille shell

http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/garner3/IMAG0146.jpg


The back I want to blackout the tailights, blackout the ram badge, and black out the exhaust tips

http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/garner3/IMAG0152.jpg
http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/garner3/IMAG0151.jpg
http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/garner3/IMAG0154.jpg
http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/garner3/IMAG0153.jpg

Not sure if you can use the engine pictures since it's so dirty
http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/garner3/IMAG0147.jpg
http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/garner3/IMAG0148.jpg
http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/garner3/IMAG0149.jpg
http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/garner3/IMAG0150.jpg

[johnnysart]

If I dont get to it tonight one our chop guys here will.

"Not trying to make you mad" but if you turn the truck around so we dont get that sunlight hitting the camera and a little simple green in the engine bay will make a big diff.

just my 2 cents.

[garner]

If I dont get to it tonight one our chop guys here will.

"Not trying to make you mad" but if you turn the truck around so we dont get that sunlight hitting the camera and a little simple green in the engine bay will make a big diff.

just my 2 cents.

Which way should I turn the truck so the sun doesn't hit the camera? Are you talking about the front pictures or the back ones? And where can I get simple green? I'll run and get some tomorrow probably and then I'll post better pictures of the engine bay

[johnnysart]

Which way should I turn the truck so the sun doesn't hit the camera? Are you talking about the front pictures or the back ones? And where can I get simple green? I'll run and get some tomorrow probably and then I'll post better pictures of the engine bay

The sun should be behind you. Oh and the rear picks of the truck.
and you can pick up simple green at the grocery store.

[garner]

The sun should be behind you. Oh and the rear picks of the truck.
and you can pick up simple green at the grocery store.

So the front are fine but the pics of the rear I need to turn the truck around? And I'll look for some of the simple green

[garner]

Went to home depot to get some plasti dip but they didn't have any so I grabbed 2 cans that they had and then a little sprayer thing but the sprayer didn't work with it so I tried using the rest of the first can with a brush but that turned out horrible so I peeled it off. Returning the second can tomorrow. Anybody know where I can pick up the spray can plasti dip?

After home depot I went to advance auto and got some caliper cleaner, red caliper paint, engine degreaser, and vht niteshade. Gonna take out the engine cover and top of the airbox tomorrow and spray it with the degreaser and then rinse it off for better pictures. Not gonna tint the tails until I have an extra set just in case I mess up or I get pulled over. While I was there though I saw hemi orange engine spray paint and then brilliant black spray paint. Thinking maybe do the badges in brilliant black and the engine cover and airbox with hemi orange and brilliant black or brilliant black and flame red, what do you guys think?