|
|
|
I am sure you have realized by now that my master plan is to transform my Durango into the ultimate personal exploration vehicle. Something that I can drive out of my driveway, go 1000 miles over highway, turn off onto a dirt road and go another 50 miles into the back country away from everybody else. No trailers to unhook, no stops, nothing to fix before hitting the trail; a stand alone vehicle that can take the family anywhere I want it to.
While all the modifications I make and plan on for my Dodge Durango are in the majority purpose driven, I also try to add a touch of my personal style to it. I have a very distinct vision of what I want my Durango to resemble. I am always excited when I find the time to wrench on my Durango, fixing and building things for it... all that kind of grease monkey guy stuff will take place here, in The Garage.
One of my primary goals is to integrate into my Durango special abilities, like a Recovery & Support Vehicle offers because I have been stuck in remote areas and it sucks when no one is around to help out. |
|
 |
I would like to be able to practically recover my self or help someone else out if stuck.
I will be integrating multiple system which give me the capability of communicating emergency needs when a disaster hits. It's a slow, labor intensive, and somewhat costly project, but it's getting there. If all works out, my Durango will be able do all that, without sacrificing the comfort while travelling on-road.
Let's get started with the Garage, which I have divided in multiple categories for ease of browsing.
|
|
|
The Garage Index
Vehicle General
|
Vehicle Internal
|
Vehicle External
|
Vehicle Performance |
|
|
|
|
|
| Upcoming Projects |
General Maintenance
Differential Oil (Front & Rear) |
|
|
|
|
|
The latest project added to the Garage:
In the General Maintenance section you'll find the latest addition:
02-03-2009 Engine Oil & Filter change!
Yep, 3000 miles are up and this means for me that an Engine Oil and Filter change is on my to-do-list asap. This time around I will give the lately often talked about Royal Purple Oil a try. Some have stated small horse power gains just from using this pure synthetic oil. We sure will see if that's a myth or the truth. It's good oil neverless. Anyway, this maintenance job is now available in the Garage section.
Go and check it out!
|
|
5 quarts of Royal Purple Oil and
a Mopar Performance filter
|
|
What's recently happening in the Garage?
|
01-09-2010 Taylor Plug Wires
The 10.4mm Spark Plug Wire Kit made by Taylor has been installed.
These are some beefy wires and they do look awesome together with the billet separators from Vision Motorworks!
It's all right here.
|
|
01-04-2010 The Hughes Intake Manifold Project!
I have finished the install of the the new Hughes Airgap Intake Manifold kit which didn't dissapoint and which increased my horsepower quite a bit in conjunction with the large throttle body I also recently added. My truck is an alltime AWD so I didn't get better milage, but that's OK.
I usually purchase only Mopar Performance parts, but the Hughes Intake is a much better solution for me then the M1 Mopar Intake would have been because the M1 produces the extra power only at higher RPM's. |
|
Hughes FI Airgap Kit
|
This intake has been designed by Hughes Engines and was manufactured by Edelbrock specifically for the Dodge Magnum engine. This entire project including lot's of pictures made during the install is available in the Garage section. Check it out right here!
|
10-29-2009 The new VIS Hood is painted and installed!
We started the project which now has been completed, last Friday.
My friend Neil has done an excellent job finishing the paint work on the new fiberglass VIS hood during the last week.
We finally mounted the new hood onto the Durango on Tuesday evening. |
|
The new VIS hood installed
|
All I have to say is that the hood looks absolutely awesome, and I love it! I have already the page up with all the details, it is available in the Garage section. Go and check it out!
|
|
10-22-2009 Digital Media Receiver
I installed a new stereo receiver into the dash..
| Blaupunkt SD48 Digital Media Receiver |
|
 |
Check out the new page in the Garage section |
Advertisement |
|
|
