Looking at gettin one this weekend.....Ideas on first mods? Its only got exhaust and pullies fellas!

-Will

 

Gen I's are nice trucks. and respond well to many mods. Try adding a chip and CAI.
Enjoy!!

Scott

 

What do these run stock?

 

Mid 15's. A very few ran high 14's.

Scott

 

I loved my gen 1 when I had it, nothing compared to my gen 2

they come stock with the 5.8 and 4.10 gears, so be prepared to fill up both tanks, here in TX it would cost about $75-$80 to fill up both tanks.

most people put shift kit, pullies, headers, a nice cam, and a vortech s-trim blower on the Gen 1's

they aren't like the Gen 2's to where you can do an upper and lower pulley swap to get more power

I loved my gen 1, it towed my boat and Gen 2 around with no problems, I'm sure you will love it too

 

Theres also a new turbo kit out for it, from Pickeral Performance over on nloc. oh and don't bother with the chip, on a mostly stock truck they are pretty much worthless. They are verry fun trucks I garantee you will have a blast with it.

 

That's if you want to spend some $$. Some good, cheaper mods would be valve body (or B&M shift kit), e-fans, cai, gauges, roller rockers (you may need tall vc's), intake spacer (for the tall vc's), msd or crane ignition box. You can advance the base timing to 14 without any issues. Then if you're gonna run it at the track, get some 28" tall drag radials or et streets. Better 60' times and the shorter tires will give you about a 4.36 gear ratio. And traction bars, either cal-tracs or ranchos.

If you keep the air filter box, then get a diesel intake tube. That will get rid of the restrictive air intake that goes above the radiator support. That's pretty much all the easy stuff.

Vern

 

i got a 93 gen 1, if i was you i would start off with pullies, shorty headers or longtubes if you want to spend the money, and electric fans (these things come alive when they run cool), intake and maybe a 75 shot of nitrous that will get you in the 8s in the 1/8. my 93 ran a best of 9.5 in the 1/8 at like 72 spinning and hopping off the line and that was basically stock!

 

Keep it coming guys this is great inf on the Gen I's