September 2020 Updates

Welcome to the September update from Utawesome Performance. I would like to first start by offering condolences to Robert Taylor's family. He ran the Dodge Ram Sec Gen page for a very long time. He recently passed away and will be missed. He was always there supporting my work and overall shenanigans at the dyno shop. God Speed my friend.
The roots supercharger design on the Ram 360 is coming along. The intake, blower and hidden intercooler are completed. Now I am working on machining my billet fuel rails (stock option in the works too) and the new designed 108mm throttle body to feed it.  I can assure you all my dyno's next year will be with it.
So for the longest time, I have campaigned the 10.3 compression all motor 360ci in Garrett's truck. Since he left on deployment to my old base in Afghanistan, Savannah and I have been working diligently to finish the last piece of the combo. It's no secret that this 360ci has been running stock untouched, cracked 1.92" Magnum heads since the build beginning. The entire reason for designing the UTP450 cam and the UTP500 cam was to use all stock parts and still have max power. I even performed a test and changed the lift on the UTP500 from 0.456" lift to 0.512" on the stock heads. As to be expected, I gained nothing on that dyno run. The stock heads are done at 0.450" lift (210-215 cfm). But still posting a super respectable 336rw and 403 tq on the ported kegger and a huge 108mm throttle body, the need for better heads is going to be the last test before next years massive supercharger work shift takes over. Chris at Performance Injection Equipment  sent us an excellent set of his 2.02" iron CNC ported heads. The last time he sent us a set of hand worked heads for Savannah's Ram, we moved from 250rw to 275 rw. It will be exciting to see what the gains will be on the 10.3 engine. I will perform a mild cleanup on the ported kegger (matched to the heads), print a fresh throttle body out, 1121G thin head gaskets again and finally stepping away from the stock rockers we have beat on for so long and install a set of 1.6 roller rockers. Same 36lb injectors and still a stock torque converter. That will be the next fun piece adding a 2800 full lockup convertor.  Some of you may remember from Facebook the super slow burnout with the old 318 that Savannah edited to have a sloth running next to. That truck has come a long way. So stay tuned and subscribe to our Youtube channel while the world is still calm!