I'm not sure on the 96+ setups, but on my 95 there isn't that much crank pulley surface area difference on the belt. Maybe 1/2" or so less? I'm doing this from memory... so I'm not 100% sure. I am also a few hundred miles from my truck so I can't go out and look either lol.
Yeah, I removed my downpipe clamp from the engine bay. It was fairly easy... but if your clamp is pretty rusted it may break. I liked when my truck had the 4" diamond eye exhaust, now the only thing left of it is the downpipe and about 3' of the straight section lol, then it goes to my stacks...
Yes. He also had an aftermarket chip in there but he removed and placed the stock eprom in before he traded it in.
The engine was replaced at around 60,000 miles... Only thing I can think of is maybe he overheated the exhaust (causing meltdown?) and that is why he put the intercooler in there...
My exhaust didn't really become louder, but it became a deeper tone if that makes sense. This is with my stacks too, I had the stacks on with the S intake for about 2 months then put on the F intake and the exhaust got deeper... lol.
275hp at the crank with ricer math, that is correct. But in all reality... each truck takes a retune differently ):h.
The numbers kojo gave on DP were crank HP and I believe mine was higher (estimated) then kojo's and his buddy... Correct me if I'm wrong I guess haha.
I can feel lag with my intercooler setup. I can't compare my lag to a 6.5L that doesn't have an intercooler... because I haven't driven a non-intercooled 6.5, yet.
I put the equation together. We are talking about chips/tuning. You said Heath's prices were "out of this world" and that you are "thrilled of having other viable options available". So I'm sure you and many others can see where I am getting at... With those comments and those comments being...
Its dirty in that picture because of the mud I was in when I took my trip to Canada. The pic was taken a week after before I cleaned the truck up lol. You can see a little preview of what I did here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubwo8wVQWrk
The other trail we were on had more mud then...
True, but with different variables on these trucks... each truck will take a tune differently. I would like to see one truck with three or four different tunes all from different people/companies. Just to see the difference, my guess would be most power numbers would be pretty similar but who...