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well this is gunna start out as a build 'story' before i get into it.

I started this awesome silver(ish) 2000 Dodge Ram 1500 in a trade. My first ram was a black 1500 Sport. While i was deployed, i loaned my black sport to a friend.... and he beat the living snot out of it. there was too much damage to list, but after a new front end and a new tranny, she just was not the same truck. There was just an overwhelming amount of repairs over the whole truck, and i was starting to tackle them one by one. Tires finally came up, and i found a guy on craigslist with some 33s. when i went to buy em, i saw a silver extended cab sitting on the side of his garage ( my soon to be tank). my thoughts were PART TRUCK! I asked a few general questions about it, and short of just over 200000 miles, she ran like a champ... so no part truck. he offered a straight trade, mine for his, because i had a new tranny, and there was a 5 inch fabtech sitting in the bed of his, new in the box. so i made the leap and so starts my project tank.

Since i joined the forum well after i started building the ram up, i dont have many pictures of what she started out as. I installed the lift shortly after getting it, got a cheap black roll bar, and a set of 16x8s wrapped in goodyear wrangler 35s. pretty sweet. oh and a black grille off ebay for dirt cheap. real tough for me. so heres where i start some pictures .



35s!!!!!!! ( the below picture was took much later from when the first one was, its just the best pic i have of the rims and tires)

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^ok but you have to plug something in to the connector, phew! I though you could just go around wirelessly tampering with peoples cars lol!
haha. that thought never crossed my mind. but considering how crafty people are with viruses and what not, its not much of a stretch to imagine someone running a virus aimed for a ecu through this manor. doubtful tho.
i tried it on my buddys magnum (has a hemi) and he was snagging oil temp, air fuel ratios, an exhaust temp, and some others that i certainly wish mine would pull. when you connect to the adaptor, one of the first screens that pops up is a full listing of what your current application can show.

mine shows me these

-vehicle manufacturer
-vin number
-fault/trouble codes
-fuel system status
-calculated engine load
-coolant temp
-short term fuel % trim bank 1
-long term fuel % trim bank 1
-intake manifold pressure
-intake air temp
-Engine RPM
-Vehicle Speed (ecu and gps calculated)
-Timing advance
-Throttle position
-02 sensor present
-bank 1, sensor 1, 02 sensor short term fuel trim
-bank 1, sensor 2, 02 sensor short term fuel trim
-Aux. input status
-OBD standards current vehicle conforms to
-Google Mapping with GPS
-Test results and logging
-adaptor status


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Damn that's pretty cool. How much is the adapter to plug into the obd port? I already have the app and wonder what it would show on a 4th gen hemi
I paid 20 bucks, on eBay.

On the apps home screen there's a help button that takes you to the wiki for the app. There's a link on there of all adaptors that work, prices range from the 20 dollar China eBay Amazon one to more expensive ones for 100+. I searched around to figure why some are more expensive and the only reason is quality of the adapter. Apparently some of the eBay ones are faulty and don't work well? I don't have a problem and I've been using it for a year. Anyways here's a link to that page with the adapters

http://torque-bhp.com/wiki/Bluetooth_Adapters
I paid 20 bucks, on eBay.

On the apps home screen there's a help button that takes you to the wiki for the app. There's a link on there of all adaptors that work, prices range from the 20 dollar China eBay Amazon one to more expensive ones for 100+. I searched around to figure why some are more expensive and the only reason is quality of the adapter. Apparently some of the eBay ones are faulty and don't work well? I don't have a problem and I've been using it for a year. Anyways here's a link to that page with the adapters

http://torque-bhp.com/wiki/Bluetooth_Adapters
Awesome thanks. There are some expensive adapters lol. I'll probably go for the ebay one too. I have my app set up with acceleration, speed, throttle, load, and maf in dials and then acceleration, throttle, load, maf, and mpg average(just to see how off my evic is) in display
Nice man. I don't have a heads up for my MPG but I calculated my MPG t0 17-18 hwy and when I'm cruising at 70 on the interstate torque shows 17 for the average. So I figure its pretty close on my account. I can knock it all the way down to 1 when 1 when I punch it haha. It really is a lot of fun to play with. I wish I would have compaired my intake air temp with the stock setup vs the cai and against my cai with the ram air I built.
I ordered me next addition to my ram yesterday. This ones going to be a mod to an existing mod already started.
*xzibit voice* Yo we heard heard you like modding so we added a mod to your mod so you can mod while you're modding!
Man I don't even know how to respond I'm laughing so hard at that.
I don't think there is a valid response to that lmao
WARNING - RANT

after an awesome 12 hour shift, I come up to my truck to find someone from my work hit my ram. The damage was minimum, a small dent in my 08 bumper and cracked a lenses on oneof my Hid Hella 500s. I'm livid about the lights. What makes this even better is it was either someone from the dayshift or my shift. One would think in a police dept someone would have the common sense to fess up and leave a note or come find me, 90% of the people I work with know my truck. Worse case scenario you give me the money to fix it and problem solved no hard feelings. Now by not saying anything you've p*@$ed me off and messed with my truck. IDIOTS.

rant over.... sorry
Quite literally that was me this morning.
good feeling this morning when i rolled this!

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Your telling me. For weeks I've been watching it grow closer and closer. It rolled just up from my house and I stopped in the middle of the road for the picture.
Oh I have. In fact I've been playing with what's inside for 3 hours.
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