Any fans of big Trucks here?

fullmonty · 03-10-2010, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by 370zdub

The 6.0's ran good when they ran but man I have heard so many horror stories about them that I wonder if half of em are true.

That licence frame would for sure work well on that truck haha.

The 6.0 was a great engine when it wanted to work the way it was ment to. Its just that more often then not it didn't want to work. Trust me all the horror stories are true. I know a guy whos had his turbo replaced 3 times in 60,000 miles, a ton of other guys who had the same issues as me. Go to google and type in '6.0 p...' before you finish powerstroke it comes up with '6.0 powerstroke problems'. THeres a guy who works at the pizzia place I go to, he had a 6.0 and before I traded in mine was telling me about all the problems he had, and that he traded in on a Nissan Cube I was like

370zdub · 03-10-2010, 04:03 PM

On a cube? Damn I would have definitely gotten desperate to do that. I'm pretty sure on the 6.0 you had to remove the cab to get to the turbo to right? That would be such a pain in the *** having to do that three times.
How often did you tow with yours?

fullmonty · 03-10-2010, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by 370zdub

On a cube? Damn I would have definitely gotten desperate to do that. I'm pretty sure on the 6.0 you had to remove the cab to get to the turbo to right? That would be such a pain in the *** having to do that three times.
How often did you tow with yours?

You didn't need to remove the cab for the turbo, however to replace the head gaskets, which are an extremely common issue you did. I think a head gasket job cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 10K, and was some where around 40+ Hours of labor. Not once did I tow with my truck. I rarley had anything in the bed. I pretty much went off and bought the biggest badest truck I could find, because I wanted 'ground clearence and 4 wheel drive'. And there are so many cars I'd get before ever even thinking about a Cube. Talk about taking your balls and cutting them right off.

rednek01 · 03-10-2010, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by fullmonty

You didn't need to remove the cab for the turbo, however to replace the head gaskets, which are an extremely common issue you did. I think a head gasket job cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 10K, and was some where around 40+ Hours of labor. Not once did I tow with my truck. I rarley had anything in the bed. I pretty much went off and bought the biggest badest truck I could find, because I wanted 'ground clearence and 4 wheel drive'. And there are so many cars I'd get before ever even thinking about a Cube. Talk about taking your balls and cutting them right off.

You do not have to remove the cab to replace the headgaskets (granted that makes it a breeze and it only takes an hour to lift the cab)

If you block off the stupid emissions crap and add head studs you have a bullet proof engine capable of 500 or so horses and 700-800 ft.lbs of torque (RWHP numbers)

Ask me how I know!

fullmonty · 03-10-2010, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by rednek01

You do not have to remove the cab to replace the headgaskets (granted that makes it a breeze and it only takes an hour to lift the cab)

If you block off the stupid emissions crap and add head studs you have a bullet proof engine capable of 500 or so horses and 700-800 ft.lbs of torque (RWHP numbers)

Nice truck dude. Ya but by blocking the emissions stuff I void the warrenty. And waiting for it to go out of warrenty to have a slightly more reliable truck seemed like a waste of time and money. By August I had enough issues with the truck that it killed it for me. it was a beautiful truck, and had alot into it. But when it was all said and done I figured I might as well trade it in on something fun and impractical, as I had no practical use for the truck anyway

370zdub · 03-10-2010, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by rednek01

You do not have to remove the cab to replace the headgaskets (granted that makes it a breeze and it only takes an hour to lift the cab)

If you block off the stupid emissions crap and add head studs you have a bullet proof engine capable of 500 or so horses and 700-800 ft.lbs of torque (RWHP numbers)

Ask me how I know!

I'm going to guess either SPARTAN or SCT?

Theres nothing like a good cloud in the morning!

370zdub · 03-10-2010, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by fullmonty

You didn't need to remove the cab for the turbo, however to replace the head gaskets, which are an extremely common issue you did. I think a head gasket job cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 10K, and was some where around 40+ Hours of labor. Not once did I tow with my truck. I rarley had anything in the bed. I pretty much went off and bought the biggest badest truck I could find, because I wanted 'ground clearence and 4 wheel drive'. And there are so many cars I'd get before ever even thinking about a Cube. Talk about taking your balls and cutting them right off.

I think the best thing for a diesel is putting something heavy behind it. I do agree with what you said about cutting your balls off on the cube, there are so so so many other cars that could fill the void over a cube!

Titan1080 · 03-10-2010, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by 370zdub

Are you going to do UpRev?

Did it last year at a local tuning shop that sells Osiris, the owner/tuner is a PRG-caliber guy and his mechanics are pretty good, I'd let them wrench my T if I needed something done that I couldn't do. Anyhoo, he told me that he'll retune the ECU if I ever need to because of additional mods.

370zdub · 03-11-2010, 12:51 AM

^thats a good deal man, I ran UpRev for about a year but never felt like it was running great on my truck and I could never get a laptop to run it properly, so I sold it and just bought a Superchips Cortex, I'm actually super impressed with the cortex being that it is canned tunes. I can actually feel a power difference with the different setting which is kinda nifty.
If I had more time on my hands I would have kept my UpRev stuff and worked with it more but it just kept pissing me off so I sold it haha

rednek01 · 03-11-2010, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by 370zdub

I'm going to guess either SPARTAN or SCT?

Theres nothing like a good cloud in the morning!

SCT Spartan came out after I was all set up with SCT. Thank God I didnt go with edge or bully dog or Banks

frost · 04-17-2010, 01:17 PM

Eat your heart out, Hummer

fullmonty · 04-17-2010, 01:47 PM

Teh Sex

370zdub · 04-17-2010, 03:27 PM

OMG what is that? it is pure sex

Oh BTW monty, this last wednesday night i went and test drove one of the first new 6.7L powerstrokes in the state, it was insane fast. Such a nice truck, I will for sure have me a new 6.7 ford within the next year.

fullmonty · 04-17-2010, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by 370zdub

OMG what is that? it is pure sex

Oh BTW monty, this last wednesday night i went and test drove one of the first new 6.7L powerstrokes in the state, it was insane fast. Such a nice truck, I will for sure have me a new 6.7 ford within the next year.

Don't jump on it my man, past 2 engines they've had trouble with. Atleast give it 1.5 model years. Now I want to test drive one for ***** see how it does

frost · 04-17-2010, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by 370zdub

OMG what is that? it is pure sex

Oh BTW monty, this last wednesday night i went and test drove one of the first new 6.7L powerstrokes in the state, it was insane fast. Such a nice truck, I will for sure have me a new 6.7 ford within the next year.

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03-10-2010, 04:03 PM	#62 (permalink)
370zdub Track Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: UT Posts: 628 Drives: 09 370z 6mt,10 Ford Rep Power: 17	On a cube? Damn I would have definitely gotten desperate to do that. I'm pretty sure on the 6.0 you had to remove the cab to get to the turbo to right? That would be such a pain in the *** having to do that three times. How often did you tow with yours? __________________ 2010 Ford 6.4L Power Stroke Diesel: 588whp/1082wtrq 2007 Dodge 6.7L Cummins Diesel: 788whp/1405wtrq, runs 12's @ 7400lbs, Still miss my 370z!

03-11-2010, 12:51 AM	#69 (permalink)
370zdub Track Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: UT Posts: 628 Drives: 09 370z 6mt,10 Ford Rep Power: 17	^thats a good deal man, I ran UpRev for about a year but never felt like it was running great on my truck and I could never get a laptop to run it properly, so I sold it and just bought a Superchips Cortex, I'm actually super impressed with the cortex being that it is canned tunes. I can actually feel a power difference with the different setting which is kinda nifty. If I had more time on my hands I would have kept my UpRev stuff and worked with it more but it just kept pissing me off so I sold it haha __________________ 2010 Ford 6.4L Power Stroke Diesel: 588whp/1082wtrq 2007 Dodge 6.7L Cummins Diesel: 788whp/1405wtrq, runs 12's @ 7400lbs, Still miss my 370z!

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fullmonty A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Dirty Jersey Posts: 7,762 Drives: 370 Touring/Sport Rep Power: 34	Teh Sex __________________

04-17-2010, 03:27 PM	#73 (permalink)
370zdub Track Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: UT Posts: 628 Drives: 09 370z 6mt,10 Ford Rep Power: 17	OMG what is that? it is pure sex Oh BTW monty, this last wednesday night i went and test drove one of the first new 6.7L powerstrokes in the state, it was insane fast. Such a nice truck, I will for sure have me a new 6.7 ford within the next year. __________________ 2010 Ford 6.4L Power Stroke Diesel: 588whp/1082wtrq 2007 Dodge 6.7L Cummins Diesel: 788whp/1405wtrq, runs 12's @ 7400lbs, Still miss my 370z!

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