I have a customer, car friend, who has a rolled over1996 CTD Ram 2500 long bed extended cab pickup that he wants to use in a 1985 Ram Charger body. We talked about mounting the Ram Charger body on the pick up frame by shortening the pick up frame, he is up for that and several local shops can supposedly do that safely
My question is how much power can he safely have added to that motor turned up for street use? He doesn't know the gear ratio in that truck but he wants 36 or 37 inch tall tires on all four corners.
I haven't paid much attention to the early 12 valve motors as my first CTD was a 24 valve 1998 extended cab 2 wheel drive, my current truck is a single wheel 2006 Ram 3500 4x4 automatic. I liked both of them, especially when towing my loaded 24 ft. enclosed Pace race car trailer going to the drag races
The 4x4 became necessary when we moved up to central Oregon with the ice and mud in the winter and spring