Remember when the first 2003 Dodge Trucks came out? The hood looked huge like the fords, and the grille was massive. I remember everyone complaining about them, including myself. I just could not understand why they would get rid of such a perfect modern looking body style. Now, a few years later, they have really grown on me. I might even own a newer body style Dodge one day. For now, I have a 2002, and I love it. Its beautiful, and its powerful.

One of our members, Eli, sent us some pictures of his 2002 Dodge Cummins with the High Output motor. The picture quality that he sent us is not that great, but, they are worth seeing anyways. He bought the truck at 16, which is really impressive. He even named the truck, Silvia. At 16, this truck was probably his first girlfriend. Our question is which can you dump more money into? A diesel powered pickup, or a real girlfriend? Having had a 2002 Dodge Diesel, and a girlfriend (now wife), I would say its a tossup.

Eli started this truck out right with a hx-40 turbo, 50hp injectors, a FASS fuel system, South Bend Clutch, ATS 3 piece exhaust manifold, aFe intake, and topped it off with a Quadzilla Adrenaline Module.

All of the work was done by Eli’s family owned business, Blackout Diesel.

Well folks, we have our first Dodge on the “Truck of the Day”! Congrats, Joe Hicks! Today’s Dodge is a 2002 2500 SLT Laramie RAM. Joe purchased his 2002 Dodge in Spokane, Washington. “It died while on a test drive…. the injector pump failed! After it was towed back to the dealer and $1300 repair later I bought it. It’s got the 5.9 Cummins, auto, 4×4, leather and every other option I can think of. This truck has along with it a Dana 70 out back with the Dana 60 up front with limited slip 3.55 gears.”

Under the hood as he said we have a 5.9L Cummins Turbo Diesel, fueled by an Edge Juice with the Attitude Monitor. Other performance modifications include a FASS 150 series fuel pump system and a MBRP 4″ Stainless exhaust. Before the FASS System was installed, the fuel pressure was 6psi at cruising speeds and “0″ when given any kind of throttle. SCARY! After Joe installed the FASS 150 Pump with the help of his dad, he now gets a consistant 15 to 18psi all the time.

On the outside there are stainless steel running boards, a Delta Pro Tool Box and Turbo Liner to protect the bed. This truck used to have a “patched in” pair of 5″ stacks coming out of the bed behind the cab. Joe says, “…they went bye bye.”

To the interior Joe added a Garmin GPS system (for which his wife is extremely thankful). As you can see, this is a well put together truck. Great color, great accessory combination and totally ready to work and play all while getting 18-21+MPG!

Thanks Joe for sharing your truck with us! If anyone would like to see their truck on Truck Profile’s “Truck of the Day”, please click the button below and fill out the form with as much information as possible.

The Cummins Forum Truck was in need of an intake about a month ago to help the engine well fed with cold air. We had already added a Turbo, Exhaust, Injectors and Chip, we needed an Intake badly. Volant happened to call us and when they found out what we were doing, offered to get us a new Intake for the truck. We were excited.

The first thing you need to do for this installation is remove the old intake tube and box. This is very easy. All you need is a screw driver to loosen the tube from the turbo and the box. Then, you need to remove the lid from the box, remove the old filter, and undew the 3 plastic nuts in the bottom of the intake box. Pull the old box out.

You will need to assemble the new box and all of its components before you go any further. Make sure to put the gasket material around the hole where the intake tube comes in. Place the Intake Box in the engine compartement exactly where the old one was and use the original plastic nuts to tighten the box down.

Place the 4″ rubber coupler on the small end of the intake tube along with the 2 - 4″ clamps. Place the large end of the intake tube in the intake box. Butt the small end of the intake tube against the Turbo Inlet and push half of the 4″ rubber gasket over the Turbo Inlet and clamp both sides.

Put the new cone filter in the box, and over the large end of the intake tube. Be sure that it is seated well, and tighten the large clamp around the filter, on to the tube.

Screw the plastic lid back on the intake box. Be sure that all the clamps are snug. Be careful not to over-tighten. You are done!

I really like this intake. I had installed MBRP’’s exhaust but it definitely needed a good intake to make it complete. Now we have plenty of air coming in and out! Definitely feel a power increase. I can also here the Turbo spool up quicker. If you have a 98-2002 24V Cummins, I recommend this intake to you.

Thanks Volant!

The Hypertech HyperPac was probably one of the easiest programmers I have ever installed. In fact, the HyperPac isnt really just a programmer. The Hypertech HyperPac combines the best of both worlds in a programmer and module with something like Edge Product’’s Attitude Monitor. The HyperPac Tunes your vehicle like a normal programmer would, through the OBDII port but everything else is like that of an in-line chip and monitor. I dont even need to describe the installation in this review/article because all you have to do is plug the HyperPac in the OBDII port and it walks you through the rest. Every page has a help button if you are stumped and everything is well described. Hypertech also sends you a very nice installation and user manual.

The HyperPac features a touch screen that is totally awesome! You can adjust the background color and text on the screen, mainly just deciding which one will be blue, and which will be white. The HyperPac comes with a Performance Tuning Section, Engine Monitor Section, Diagnostics, Dynanometer, Drag Strip Section and Vehicle/Hyperpac Options and Information Section.

The HyperPac Performance Tuning Section has 3 Stage’’s of power levels for my 2002 Dodge. Horsepower additions all the way up to an additional 45 RWHP. This obviously not an extreme amount of horsepower compaired to many other chips and programmers out there. However, for the individual that just wants a little quicker throttle response, Performance and Towing Power, its perfect. The important thing about Hypertech’’s HyperPac is the quality of their tuning. I have smooth acceleration across the board and I can tell that it is not being hard on my engine or transmission.

Besides the Performance Tuning Section, the Engine Monitoring Section is by far, my favorite section. On my rig, I was able to select from about 9 different Digital and Analog Guages that are way fun to play around with. Anytime you click on a digital or analog guage it takes you to a section that allows you to set an alarm for that guage. For instance, if I wanted to set the alarm to go off every time I went above 135 degrees in my Air Intake Temp, I could. The Engine Monitoring Section will also tell me things that my trucks guages normally would not, like my boost. Hypertech has another kit that you can purchase with the HyperPac that gives you the ability to monitor the EGT’’s. This is a must!

The HyperPac has so many other features. You can do recording sessions where you can do tests, and then go back and see what all your stats were at what part of the test. I have used this already. Before I installed my exhaust, I did a test run up a hill outside of town at 70MPH. The test records every half second or second(not sure), telling me how many MPH I was doing at what RPM and what BOOST at what EGT and more. I was then able to go back and run the same test after I installed my exhaust so I could see how much my EGT’’s had dropped in the same scenario.

Internet updates are something you can sign up for when you register your product. After an update has been released you can plug your HyperPac into your computer and download the update from the internet.

I really love my HyperPac and would recommend it to anybody that isnt looking to race. The only reason that I would go with anything else is so that I could get more horsepower for racing. As far as everyday driving performance and towing, the Hypertech HyperPac is the way to go.