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Wow... where to start!

I guess that we will start at the beginning...

This is the story of my '06 Ram 2500 4x4 CTD SPORT.

How I got the truck is a very funny story... My wife and I knew that I needed a new truck for work. Seeing as how she is a accountant we had decided to wait until the end of April when she quit working 60 hour weeks to buy... I was sitting around the house one Friday night surfing the net trying to decide what I wanted when I convinced her to go ride to the dealerships with me for some test drives and so we could figure out how much we need to save up between now and then. First it was off to the GMC dealership. She loved Duramax and not so much the gas engine... At that point she decide we needed a diesel... Who am I to argue with her??? ... Well all they had was the classic body style and I decided that if I was gonna drop 45-50k on a new truck I didn't want it to look old in two months when the new body style came out. So off we went to the Dodge dealership... where I had already spotted the truck I wanted earlier in the week.. I thought that being fresh out of the GMC she would hate the ride of the Dodge... But the first thing out of her mouth was "THIS IS A TRUCK!" she decided she liked the truck feel of the Dodge more than the Car-Truck GMC. When we came back to the dealership the salesman wanted to know if we wanted it... I told him not right now... He proceded to tell me that someone had ordered it and then backed out at the last min and they needed to unload it FAST! Besides he added after noticing the Fire Dept tags on my truck... It's fire engine red! I kinda laughed and said sure if we can get it for "x" dollars a month. (REAL lowball number) seeing as how they where closing he got my name and number and said he would call me the next day... On the way home I was BUGGING the hell out of my wife about how I wanted it... She laughed at me and told me if they would sell it for what we offered we could get it... Wrong move on her part! Well after the phone call the next morning and A LOT of paperwork I left the first of MANY black marks in my new CTD pulling out of the dealership's parking lot! Later that night I asked my wife if she let me get the truck to shut me up and she said no... She said she went on the test drives to prove to me that we could not buy a truck for what I thought we could and it kinda back fired on her... That's how we got where we are!

Once I had the truck I needed to find a good place to brag about it and figure out how to make it better... I started on ANOTHER site for a few days until GREAT a BRAND NEW site for me to join! Well I joined in one of the first givaways and won a silverline 4" exhaust... Funny story about that... I was in Martinsville at the Cup race sitting in a potajohn reading the newspaper when the e-mail on my phone went off... When I read, it I let out a yell... The guy in the potajohn next to me left in a hurry... I don't know why ... After the exhaust went on it was time for gauges... A call to Vulcan Performance took care of my engine... Now that I could monitor my EGT's, boost, and tranny temp I could really run this truck like it deserves to be run. The addition of a K&N filter helped to get some air into the engine to cool it off and build a little more boost at low RPM's. Seeing as how I am a Volunteer Fire Fighter here in my home town I also installed some red LED's in the grill and had personal plates that now say "ENGIN"... All of these were added by me with the help of a couple friends... Beer has always been cheaper than shop labor in my experiance.

The truck has served me very well in my job, I'm a salesman for a truss company here in VA, it carries me around to job sites and even hauls some material out when I can't get it shipped on one of the company trucks. On the weekends, it never balks at towing my 21' boat to the landing and even has launched it off a beach a few times. When we're not water skiing or fishing on the boat it pulls my quad to the local riding spot. Never once has this thing let me down yet!

 

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DM

 

i'm not even going to waste anybody's time trying to enter this. i just wanted to thank diesel dawgs, vulcan, cowboy diesel, discount power, heath/amsoil, diesel nut and our staff here. this is a great contest and really, really substantial products. awesome guys!!

 

You don't have to have the fanciest truck on the road to win this one boy's. Just be the most proud of it. In this contest every truck has a chance.

 

Sharky
2005 5500 Ram CTD/ Edge "Hot" Juice w/Attitude/S&B CAI/4.5" Fab Tech lift/35x13.50x18 Pro Comp wheels and tires,built tranny with billet in put shaft, Hughes converter and upgraded flex plate, custom stereo, 5" Mitre cut stacks , 5" turbo back exhaust with gutted Cat and no muffler, every guage known to man,Mag Hytech trans and diff covers, Amp Power steps, stainless condensor guard, 4 Black chrome KC's on a Randy Ellis lite bar,Viper Remote start and alarm, Turbo timer, Blue LED lamps through out the cab and dash, SRT10 hood, ATS fender flares limo tinted windows and upper and lower stripes on windshield, Cummins badges added to the grill and tail gate, Billet grills in the hood, grill and bumper, Black out covers on the head lights and tail lights, Fab Tech spare tire carrier in the bed with matching spare, Mud flaps, Billet locking fuel door, and soooo much more...Next is a Fass system, restud the head and a larger turbo...







I have never been a Dodge fan, or a fan of Diesels until I bought this one, it has all the power I could ask for and I keep adding more!!!
November 06' Dodge Forum TOTM
2006 Dodge Forum TOTY
July 07' Diesel Garage TOTM

 

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DM

 

It all started whe I was waisting time online (when I was susposed to be studying for a test). I had always wanted a CTD, so I thought that I would look online and see if I could find a deal. I found a 2005 2500 crew long in fire engine red with almost everything I wanted in Texas. I called them and they started the paperwork on it the next day. They called me back and told me the payment, I was shocked at how high it was. So I said that if I can afford that I might as well look at a brand new one with everything I want.

I built it online with al the options I wanted and printed it out. Took it to a dealer in Marion, IL since that was close to where I was living in college currently. Went straight in to the showroom and told the first person to help me I needed a price on a brand new CTD. His eyes just lit up with money signs I sat down with him and he tried to talk me into leather and other things but I said NO, this is what I want and nothing else. Told him that I was going home for the weekend so I also was going to get a price from the dealer at home. Basically he went to talk to his boss and came back and told me to go get my best price and they will BEAT it by $2000, guaranteed. Ok, if you say so.

Went home and walked in to the dealer and haneded him the build sheet and told him I needed my best price with trade in of my 01. Told him the story from the other dealer and he said OK, if they say so, we will see. He comes back about 10 minutes later with a quote of $25k with trade, I still owed $7k on it so lets say $32.

Went back to Marion, IL on Monday and gave them the quote. 35-40 minutes later he came asking for my keys. After their mechanic looked at the truck for another 30 min or so they finally came back and handed me my keys, saying :q:Congrats Travis Goeckner Bros just sold you a truck, get the @&*# out and quit wasting our time:q:

I called Goeckner Bros and told the sales man to order it and he said that he had already done so because he was wure that they could not beat it.

Anyway, when it came in I picked it up at the dealer and drove it off the lot with 13 miles on it. I had never driven a stick before so it was a learning experience to say the least.

I ordered it as a work truck, but my life has since taken a different path so it is now a daily driver/toy. I have instaled Guages, Muffler delete, and an AFE torque tube to date. I have many plans for the truck but I am a young buck, jsut graduated college and moved to the coast, so money is not in a great plenty yet.

I do all of the maintance and mods on this truck myself. You should have the people at the apartment complex when I changed my oil a few weeks ago, priceless. Since new the truck has had a bath every calendar week only missing one since it extremly cold for two weeks straight. With all of that being said here are some pictures of my truck for you all to enjoy.

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Well to start off my truck is a Regular Cab 2X4. It has a full custom paint job of Viper Black and Prowler Orange. I recently redid the seats in a two tone Black and Grey Pleather. It has 5" Mitre cut stacks and a toolbox that is flush to the top of the bed rails and sits inside the bed behind the stacks. my truck is truely one of a kind. It has shaved door handles with remote poppers, a shaved body line and 5% window tint all around. It is rolling on Eagle Alloy 5 star aluminumn wheels and Maxxis Commercial 235/85/16. My truck has 370 Injectors, 191 Delivery Valves, 4KGSK, 100 plate, HTT Quick Spool Manifold, HTT 71 Series 64/14 Turbo, K&N FIPK, Snow Stage 2 Methanol Kit, NOS Nitrous Kit, Goerend Built to the hilt Transmission with a tight Tripple Disc Converter, Mag-Hytec Tranny Pan, GM rear wheel cyl. upgrade. It has all Autometer Pro-Comp Boost, Pyro, Tranny Temp, Drive Press Gauges. HID's, Tripple Train Horns, and rolled in bed liner. Aux. tranny cooler and fan under the cab.

The story behind this truck is kind of funny. I never really had the use for a big truck like this one. I had a friend that had some financial troubles, a business went under, stuff got repo'd and he had to file Bankruptcy. He was starting back doing vinyl siding and needed a truck to pull the equiptment trailer as his Explorer wouldn't do it. At the time I was into street racing and drag racing in general so I kind of needed something to pull with. He found this truck that ended up being a steal at a local dealership. It was all black, every pannel had some dings or dents, the passenger side fender flare was busted and the bedside was gouged behind the flare where someone jack knifed a trailer. The radio didn't work, the cruise control didn't work, and it had bent up simulators on it. It ran strong and would do anything we would ever use it for. We made an agreement that I would sign for it and he would make all the payments on it and when he got over the bankruptcy deal he would get it financed in his name. Well a year and a half later, after over 12 late payments and 4 payments behind (over 2 K out of my pocket to keep my credit up and in good standing) I repo'd the truck from him and started bringing it back up to speed. The driver side window regulator was bad. the radio was gone. A couple months later the fuel shutoff solonoid and starter went bad in the same day. I started with window tint and making the beginner mods. Exhaust, starwheel adjustment, and fuel plate. Then it got modded more and more until it is what it is today.



I prolly did 90% of all the work done to this truck. My painter did all the finish painting I did some of the primer. I did alot of the body work. Darren Morrison helped me install the delivery valves and injectors, and Ray williams does some of the stuff I don't feel like doing like valve cover gaskets, brakes etc.

I'd classify my truck like being in the National Guard. One weekend a month and two weeks a year..... .... well not really but that is what it feels like. It's a weekend warrior. It's a tow truck when i need something moves and a race truck when I need to put a Honduh driver in their place. There are definately days that she has been rode hard and put up wet.

My truck is featured on Goerend Transmissions website www.Goerend.com and was nominated for Truck Of The Month on DTR and held it's own against 2 other 4X4's but I was beaten by a far superior truck than mine.