It is done! Drove it around today and it ran awesome! This thing pulls hard, a crap ton of torque! Can't wait to get it to the track :happy107:

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What all did you do to it?

It's in the very first post, got it all listed at the top.

Got some seats off Craigslist the other day and finally got them installed today! They're not in pristine condition but not bad for what I got them for. I'm going for a blue and black theme on my truck so I figured these would be perfect for the setup :D We had to custom fab the seat brackets to make them work with the stock bolt holes and it worked!
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Also got the other seats sold so it all worked out pretty well in my favor!

Pretty cool addition! I almost put a set similar to that in my white truck but decided I liked having a middle seat lol

No room for an extra seat in this little thing lol

Yeah haha. I like em. They go well with the truck

Few new pics

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Paint the front bumper...

i concur

It's in the plans.

Nice rt man!! i wanted one in high school so bad!!!

I absolutely love this truck, its definitely a must have as far as badass trucks go!

Got some new taillights and replaced those ugly bubbled looking lights. They're clear but smoked and black on the back.
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Also forgot to post these results... I already have taken it to the track and ran the 1/4 mile. This run was with street tires and no tune, which is how it still currently sits.
(In right lane)
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I have since gotten some drag radial tires that should help tremendously in launching and getting grip. A tune will hopefully help me break into the 13's. Won't know til fall since I'm going to wait to run again until after it cools off.

You should at least run for the Midwest Meet Drags in July!

2000 Dodge Dakota R/T Build Thread
 

Man that's a quick truck

Painted the drums and calipers today. Me and my buddy Jared pulled the wheels and painted them all blue. It's a lighter looking blue but definitely pops behind the black wheels!
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And my truck and his 93 LT1 Trans Am
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Nice! I like the blue behind the black

Me too. I'm finally getting to the point where I'm happy with how it looks. Now time for new shocks, bigger efan and a tune.

Forgot to mention that I removed the clutch fan and am just running the stock efan for now.

Swapped grilles with a buddy last night for the stock Dakota grille. I like the look a whole lot better.
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Also swapped air intakes. Went back to a cold air intake and I noticed a significant difference in the way in ran just on the drive home.

Got a chance to run against a 4th gen single cab Hemi Ram and pulled it by over a length :D

I got a performance e-fan on the way so that's next on the list!

Much better! Now get some paint on that front bumper!

Got something else in mind for that...

So much better.

You raced a 4th Gen Hemi RC and won?

As far as I know it was a Hemi. Definitely sounded like one when he hit the throttle.

Seems possible... power to weight ratio is better on the Dakota...although I sense growing animosity. :driver:

i don't know about that they aren't "too" much heavier than the dakotas around 700 lbs give or take curb weight but those 360s weren't known for high hp stock for stock they are down 145 hp in stock trim you're about 12lbs per hp for the ram and 16 for the dakota i understand coltons isn't "stock" but no way to know hp ratings bc it hasn't dyno'd to equal a ram power/weight he would need to have around 335 hp i am VERY impressed with a RCSB 4th gen hemi truck btw lol

I've honestly watched a RCSB Hemi run around a 15.2 before.

I've seen that listed here as well. What's your best time/mph Colton?

Edit: on street tires...and vehicle weight. I can probably find that but dragstips usually have a scale.

EDIT #2 Never mind...I found what I wanted.

i've seen them run 14.6 in noble

Colton, Based on your vehicle curb weight which I've figured is around 4200 lbs...

and using my handy/dandy hp calculator I come up with 268 rear wheel hp...based on trap speed and weight. Remember this is rear wheel hp, which is about 15% less than flywheel hp

Re figuring vehicle weight with rear wheel hp...your actual et should be about 14.57.

Now this is based on your last slip I found on page 6. I can see your 60 ft time is like 2.12 seconds...If you could hook that Dak up and get your 60 ft into the 1.6 range you'll be pretty quick. Getting rid of that open rear will go a long way to doing that.

Lest we cast further dispersions on how quick or slow something is...I'll take another truck where the info is easily researched.

Young Timmy has all his specs right on his sig...and using the same calculator with curb weight at 5120 lbs and tap speed of 97.82 mph rear wheel hp is 374 hp. Very impressive, but (and Tim knows this) he's not getting it to the ground. Using the other equation of curb weight and hp his et Should be 13.93...

The Dakota simply gets it done by weight. Coltons truck weighs a good 700 lbs less than a RCSB and probably has better weight distibution.

This is not pagan magik voodoo, just some simple applied engineering.

You can use this page... http://www.race-cars.net/calculators/et_calculator.html

Or for a bit more fun...http://www.ajdesigner.com/phphorsepo...horsepower.php

i bet colton is closer to 4k

Weight on various Dakota sites suggests weights around 4130- 4170 ish depending on the post and without driver. So 4200 is pretty legit.

With me in it and with the street wheels and tires, it weighs 4030 lbs. That's also with the tonneau cover, which easily weighs 150ish. But I've decided to leave that on because it helps the tires bite. Once I get my suspension worked out, my 60' times will improve, especially with the et streets. New shocks all the way around will be coming next after the fan. It's all about the launch. If I can get it to hook, I'll be seeing mid 14's easy.

Weighs about 3900 lbs empty.

Ok...makes your RWHP about 258 and your actual et about 14.56. :gr_grin: Running with a Hemi truck is viable becaue of your hp/wt ratio, and that it's harder to tame all that extra torque.

Al, I wanna make a point of that calculator real quick. I highly doubt it takes DA and track conditions into play. I would bet that 14.56 would be in the perfect environment, which is almost never the case here in Oklahoma. Now I'm planning on running again in November, so maybe by then with the cooler temps, I'll be running the better numbers

Well you must remember that these caculations take hard info into consideration. However I have plugged a couple three of my old cars into the equations and the results are quite accurate. Not only do the times agree with the ets but the corrected ets very close.

Example: One '74 Roadrunner, 3800 lbs runs best of 14.3 at 102+ mph. 60 ft times are in the 1.5/ 1.6 range...with street tires! 102 trap speed applied to et calculator shows times should be in the 13/3s...this agrees with the old Direct Connection bible. BTW...the person who purchased the car from me swapped 4:30 gears in place of the 3:91s and started running slicks...
At the same track I ran under probably the same conditions the car now runs 13.2s. Coinkydink? I doubt it. The suspension was set up front and rear to run in the 13s with the exception of gears and slicks.

You're running a 2.12 60 ft with an open rear and street tires correct>? The caculator merely states you should be 3 tenths quicker which is not an astonomical figure. Between reaction time and lack of traction you are losing at least 3/10ths of a second.

Again, my old 'runner is running 1.6 60 ft times with nasty old fiberglass belted L-60/15s I'll give you 2 tenths because your truck is about 200 lbs heavier with driver. That still leaves 3/10s...which on my car I'll contribute to suspension and a sure grip rear end.

If you run your car again with street tires, try to count how many seconds you hear squeal when you leave and deduct about a tenth for every 2 seconds.

EDIT.... Yes your truck will make more power when it's cooler. But the track surface will be cooler too, and if you can't hook up now, you may be slower.

Got the fan installed today. This thing is claimed to move 4000 cfm of air, which sounds kind of ridiculous but it definitely moves a lot! Already noticed a difference in the way the engine temp runs. Used to get hot idling, now it's staying right at 180-185! http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps1b2ce11a.jpg