2004 Dodge Ram 3500 - Diesel Domination

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2004 Dodge Ram 3500 - Diesel Domination
We All Hear It Sometimes-A Little Voice Inside Our head telling us to push things just a bit further. A little more power, a little more speed, a little-brighter paint. When Chris Lebrecht out of Rock Springs, Wyoming, approached the folks at Dominator Diesel Performance (located in Pocatello, Idaho) about building a good, streetable truck that he could also take to sled pulls, we wonder just how loud that voice was talking. We first saw the truck in Pahrump, nevada, then again in Las vegas, and once more in texas. Each time, the truck got wilder and more heavily modified, and now Chris has one of the strongest common-rail pulling trucks out there.
The truck itself is an '04 Dodge 3500, but it is by no means stock. The first thing that comes to mind is the paint and the awesome flame job, done by Stacy Lennon out of Pocatello, Idaho. The color is Extra Inferno Red, and the marbleized flames even have skulls hidden in them for that extra touch of evil. While the paint is a good attention-getter, the truck draws just as much interest under the hood, thanks to Dominator Diesel. The engine is one of the most heavily modified common-rails we've ever seen, with a filled block, custom 13.5:1 Aries pistons, a fully ported head by CAMS Machine (yup, you guessed it-in Pocatello) and a ZZ Fabrications intake. The head has also been O-ringed, and everything is held together by ARP studs.
Killer Common-Rail The fuel and air are where things really get wild. The truck progressed from a single CP3 and single turbo with a shot of nitrous to the "twin everything" setup you see here. Twin turbos and twin CP3 pumps provide the massive amounts of air and fuel that is needed in order to make the estimated 1,000 horsepower that this truck now produces. Keeping the air and fuel in a good mix is a tst Smarty module stacked with a Predator pressure box. A stock manual transmission is up to handling the power, but the clutch has been replaced with a South Bend unit.
So, is Chris happy? Well, the truck makes plenty of power and looks awesome, but the high horsepower has also led to some broken parts. At the DHRA event in Baytown, texas, the truck broke both the front and rear axles. As this goes to press, the crew is going back to the drawing board and beefing up the rest of the truck to handle the massive power that it's producing. As it sits, Chris' truck is still one of the best-looking pickups we have seen in a while and one of the few show-quality competition vehicles that has enough "go" to match its looks.

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