I have 1998 1500 sport with the magnum 360. Bought it new in 98 with 60ish miles on it. Still running at 208k miles. Original engine and Trans. I've only had to replace a couple alternators, radiators, one water pump, 4 tune ups, and rebuilt the rear axle once and a muffler. It has been a very faithful truck.

@brandonpurple8938

2 жыл бұрын

My 95 has 255k and is just now needing a trans rebuild

The plate on the bottom of the beer keg manifold is notorious for blowing the gasket and creating a dead hole by sucking oil up into the intake and going into the intake ports making an oily looking plug. Easiest way to check is hold the butterflies open on the throttle body and shine a flashlight in. I've got many of the magnum engines that people thought need rebuilt that are perfectly fine. The new gasket kits have shorter bolts for the plate to stop this issue.

@jeeptk

3 жыл бұрын

The first sign of the lower plate leaking is the engine pings.

@jamesarnold7636

3 жыл бұрын

Plenum Gasket.

@steve6992

3 жыл бұрын

With the engine not running just open up the throttle body and look down and it look like an oil slick

@konnerkramer329

3 жыл бұрын

you can also put your hand over the oil fill hole with it running. it will have a ton of vacuum in the crankcase when those gaskets fail.

@dodgeguyz

2 жыл бұрын

Pull the PCV out of the valve cover and check for vacuum. If it’s really bad it will have vacuum. Otherwise look down the t-body for oil laying on the bottom.

Thanks Richard for all the hours of labor to give us this great content. Your work ethic is second to none. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.

Richard your videos have more good info than 99% of the drama crap on TV. Anyone can learn a lot from your advise and testing. Worked at a great performance machine shop 40 yrs ago, still very good friends with the owner, learned the difference between BS and results. Love your videos and I haven't bought a Hot rod in almost 40yrs!

@richardholdener1727

3 жыл бұрын

thnx

I’ve always loved the 5.9 magnum, parts are cheap and it’s easy to make Power with! Thanks for the most content.

@joserocha4853

3 жыл бұрын

Please look into Utawesome Performance ! He specializes in these magnums and offers cams that utilize stock springs and gain lots of power ! I’d be super interested is that !

@tylerphelps4868

3 жыл бұрын

@@joserocha4853 he sells gimmicks

@95epiphone

3 жыл бұрын

Rip off. Old school tricks that work on the LA engines also apply to these magnums. These engines don't require black magic or speciality shops...

@tylerphelps4868

3 жыл бұрын

@@95epiphone he wants to sell $600+ in porting a keg when the airgap produces the same or better results for less money lol

@thatautogarage3644

3 жыл бұрын

That same principles go for any engine. We’re all here for fun and to see the numbers, not here for a “how to” videos.

Can't wait for boost on this thing. Hardly anyone boosts these things!

@brandonpurple8938

2 жыл бұрын

I'm planning to twin turbo mine tbh 🥵

@Bigguy4778

3 ай бұрын

​@@brandonpurple8938did you make it?

My birthday is 2 days away, and Richard Holdener starts on an engine series I own. Today is a good Day!

Always appreciate more Mopar content!

@Welcometofacsistube

3 жыл бұрын

Hear hear!!!!

@ryanfry390

3 жыл бұрын

With you on that one brother!

@jonathanfreedom1st

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!!! More old Mopar, these trucks have a big following still after over 20 years. They deserve that.

My dad had a 360 in his duster with Direct Connection W2 cylinder heads and a low lash solid roller but this was his high school car and sadly it got sold like most of the great cars we’ve all had at one point in our lives 🥲

@dbrandon4528

3 жыл бұрын

The W2 head are worth as much as the Duster

Man I've been waiting all week for this. I have a 98 Dodge Ram SST that I'm getting ready to do a turbo Big Bang on. I really need to see you turbo this engine LOL.

I'm very happy to see you doing some testing on the magnum; I'm excited to see some numbers with boost also. Can't wait for more magnum content!

factory two barrel and almost 300hp Im impressed , but then I should have expected nothing less from a mighty Mopar

@rotaxtwin

3 жыл бұрын

That two barrel throttle body flows on par with a medium sized 4 bbl carburetor. Any restrictions in power are below the throttle on that engine.

@frigglebiscuit7484

3 жыл бұрын

@@rotaxtwin nope. its 500cfm on that throttle body. garbo. mopars love cfm. give it a 750, and itll make even more hp.

@codyramos3200

3 жыл бұрын

Its not running full accessories and getting cooler than normal operating temperature... besides that .. I thought it ran strong for what it is.

That injector tester is neat. It's interesting to see what these engines ran compared to the factory rating.

Love the mopar content

Hah dude im here ............for the magnum 360 lol

I've been waiting on this video. Thank you Richard! I hope with mods you keep it fuel injected. Maybe with the Trick Flow or Indy heads and the Hughes FI dual plane intake and big gulp throttle body?

Perfect timing. I just rebuilt mine and I'm about to put it back in my Dakota.

@Firion13

3 жыл бұрын

Also I built mine with the assembled EQ heads. I searched high and low for a set of good OEM Magnum heads to no avail every set I found was cracked. I want to say I found them on eBay through a well-rated shop and they were pretty reasonably priced I want to say under $900.

@keeblerdaddy6961

2 жыл бұрын

@@Firion13 do you remember where?

I’ll be watching! Decent stock numbers, but not too surprising. As a Ford guy, I can say I dig those late model Magnum heads…if I remember correctly, I think they have 8mm valve stems and an exhaust valve in the neighborhood of 1.625”- probably why they sounded so good in trucks with a cat back exhaust. I’m curious to see if the longtube headers can bring peak power over 300. I helped a kid install longtubes on his ‘95 Ram, then I fab’ed up a full 2.5” true dual exhaust with Flowmaster Super-10 mufflers…that thing was L-O-U-D. I also milled, radiused, ported and polished his throttle body. The kid used to “goose” the throttle all the time to get it up on the converter and it would bark, I could hear him leave the shop and continue to hear him (from inside my apt!) all the way to his neighborhood! It was about a 5-6 mile trip and my apartment at the time was about a third of the way through his commute. We had planned to install a small cam with a tight LSA and take 2” of runner length from the intake but he ran out of cash and I got married and moved away. Such is life, I’d like to play with one of those again.

Not real familiar with Mopars and I wondered what y'all were talkin' about "keg manifolds" during the live show last night ?! Now I know ! Richard , thank you sincerely for all the hard work you do and education you provide for us & for trying to set the who's a/what's a "Boomer/Millennial" nonsense straight , I wish everyone saw things your way.......we be Gearheads or sumtin' like that !

@chaddavis7228

3 жыл бұрын

The stock intake looks like half a keg turned sideways. Have a good day

Really looking forward to this series. Got a 5.9 sitting in the shop and a pair of gt45s ready to mod and boost the thing and really curious to see all the testing

My Dad and I have always used Castrol GTX or Valvoline, whatever is cheaper, but we've never had issues with either.

Those engines respond well with a total advance of 34 to 36 degrees, I think you left some horsepower on the table

@black99rt

3 жыл бұрын

You may be confusing that total timing value with LA heads on older stuff. Magnums like mid/high 20s. 36* total on a magnum is completely unnecessary, at least for 93

@richardholdener1727

3 жыл бұрын

we advanced til it stop making power-the dyno tells us what works

@steve6992

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardholdener1727 I agree but in the video you said that you bump it 2° to 27 and it didn't make much difference so you stopped there, the engine I was tuning was a 380 horsepower Magnum crate engine with a carburetor and distributor we also Advanced it until it stopped making power which was 35 degrees, how I determined that is the mile an hour increase which would show a gain of horsepower. I don't understand why you deleted my previous post I followed the community guidelines.

Man my favorite oil is mystic followed by rotella. Most oils are good enough if you change it every 3000 miles. 5 gal buckets ensures you will have it on hand when you have a few minutes to change your oil. Good enough for a 500000$ tractor good enough for me.

@Welcometofacsistube

3 жыл бұрын

She'll Rotella all the way

@codyramos3200

3 жыл бұрын

15-40 rotella is almost always on sale when I go for oil lol.. perfect for texas 110° 90% humidity weather .

Header test will be interesting to see. Dulcich had an article about headers on a 320hp magnum crate engine. I think headers made no difference, probably due to the .400 lift cam

@Ratridez

3 жыл бұрын

Get rid of that restrictor barrel and bolt on a manifold and a 750 cfm and those magnums really wake up .

Been waiting for this series for a year now!!!! Thanks for all the late nights and hard work. We appreciate you for doing this stuff!!!!!!

I have a 2001 Ram 1500 with a 5.2. Nice truck. Horrible mpg. 13 mpg. Runs like it should. I am enjoying all of these Magnum videos. Thank you for what you do !!!

@alpha13dylan

7 ай бұрын

The 5.2 in my experience just doesn't have the torque to pull a 3 speed. The 5.2 is supposed to get good mileage compared to the 5.9. However, I found that the 5.9 does better and makes more power too.

Mopar or no car 👍👍👍👍👍✅✅✅✅✅

I have the 360 mag in my 98 Jeep ZJ grand Cherokee...really dependable engines. 191,000 miles.

@lskynard87

2 жыл бұрын

I miss my 'Niner. Hope you still have yours!

@shanewinters3121

2 жыл бұрын

@@lskynard87 yeah, it just hit 205,540 miles need to change break pads tomorrow.

@lskynard87

2 жыл бұрын

@@shanewinters3121 good to hear. Hopefully I'll get another one in my lifetime

This was awesome! I hope someone will loan you the EFI M1 single plane intake, and a Dual Plane M1 Carb intake!!!

@kyleolin3566

3 жыл бұрын

That would be cool. I have an M1 intake for an LA block I’m going to modify for a Magnum my brother and I are building. We’re going port the heads, , balance the internals, throw a performance throttle body on it, high compression pistons (not sure how high yet), headers, 1.7 rockers and beefed up valve springs. Hoping to get close to 400 hp. Just starting to collect parts and we’re on a beer budget. Lol

@markvanleeuwen6678

2 жыл бұрын

I have m1 intake and cnc TB to lend / test

Time to turn those pistons

@watsisbuttndo829

3 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍

I have been waiting for the magnum videos!!

I got a 98 b1500 that I want to turbo and manual swap. I'm happy for this build!!!

Very interesting. Should make my little Dakota pull much better when I get mine swapped over with a 360 from an R/T Durango.

@codyramos3200

3 жыл бұрын

Dude my buddies neighbor had a 2002ish single cab r/t Dakota in that burnt metallic orange color.. that truck would lay 2 black lines down from one block to the next lol. Unfortunately drunk driver smashed into the front of it one night.. year and a half later someone killed my e36 328is BMW in the same dame spot. Sometime inbetween then driver lost control of their barracuda and ended up in front yard almost hitting his sons bedroom.. don't park there .

Drive by Wire LOL!!!

On old engines always put diesel oil in them it's got all the high zinc and good dinosaur bones in their good for all the flat tappet cams

@codyramos3200

3 жыл бұрын

Flat tappers ... I thought those were roller engines?

Personally I blame squirrels

@DoyleShadduck

10 ай бұрын

Hey, they got the nuts.

Thanks for the 360 content. I have a 00 Dakota Rt that’s turbo. Stock bottom, eq heads, m1 4bbl, 230/230 on a 114 cam, f and b 58mm and precision 67/68. It made around 625 wheel on 12 pounds. I’ve been 10.60 at 127

@richardholdener1727

3 жыл бұрын

Very nice!

@SantiagoMAXIMOleon

2 жыл бұрын

I’m Tryna be like you

awesome stp filter

Wow that did take a while… you should show us how long it takes to reverse pistons and test again 😃.

@codyramos3200

3 жыл бұрын

Richard tested the 180° turned piston controversy????

Richard, we put boost on a stock 2001 Dakota R/T, back in 2002... cometic head gaskets allowed more boost... learned a lot back then...

As a magnum owner I can tell you that those Chrysler EV1 injectors that came on those engines are complete garbage and simply replacing them with anything EV6 or newer even if they are under rated for that engine will greatly improve things. An injector swap from those to underrated 17# Bosch EV6 injectors from a cheap mustang in the junk yard took my vehicle from no engine breaking in 4 low to tank engine braking. I went from riding my brakes down hill to riding my engine down hill.

@richardholdener1727

3 ай бұрын

how would injectors change engine braking?

@YouTubeDoxedMyRealName

3 ай бұрын

@@richardholdener1727 My guess is that the stock injectors were just complete garbage at atomizing the fuel as in I went from 17 mpg to 25 mpg after the swap. So I must have went from not making power to actually making power. I went from 15 mpg to 17 mpg by changing the spark plugs and installing an MSD ignition coil before the injector swap.

I ran a 3.9 magnum V6 Shell Formula 10W30 140,000 miles then Shell Rotella 10w30 synthetic to 218,000, Purolator L14670 Filters or Mopar 090 filters. Champion or bosch plugs

Just rebuilt the 360 in a 98 ram 2500. Cheap shtufff…. Sweet spot Atm for what’s done is at 12 advance. After a good 700 mile break in. Lolz I slapped it in 4wd 2nd gear clutch dump we smoldered all 4tires for 11feet

@richardholdener1727

2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff

Awesome Vid Richard.. !! Love the Mopar stuff !!

Invest in a prybar and hammer to get oil filter off. Check.

Thanks for the Mopar content! Now throw some LA aluminum heads on it and show me how you get oil to the top without spending big money on Harland sharp rockers

@warhound7781

3 жыл бұрын

Aux oil lines run to the rocker shafts....

Good to see someone playing with these .. i have a 99 Dakota with built 360 (now 385) with a 7875 on e85 and it did 596/616 on 13 psi. Fun truck!

My Holley 600 are B200 D200 & Ford primary 80 secondary 90 Dodge Mopar magazine dyno test King Ranch Janky Fuel

I wish EQ still made heads with the LA intake bolt pattern for these things. I have a set of Magnum EQ heads on my LA block. Runs great! Tons of torque too! I have it in my '74 Duster.

@jimifed2798

3 жыл бұрын

They stopped making cb318 eq heads ? I see them listed at Jeggs and Utah performance

@JoeyGarcia

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimifed2798 I should have been more specific. They no longer make the CH318B part number with the LA intake bolt pattern. I fixed it!

@jimifed2798

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoeyGarcia Oh, I have the la style on my classic, that's a bummer. it must have been a good seller can't understand why they would discontinue it.

Wow... I want the injector tester!!! What a cool widget!!

Can't wait richard thank you for the videos

Richard thank you for all the videos and education you provide, you're awesome! Will you please turbo the 5.9L magnum? I'd love to see it with the 7875 VS turbo.

The FIRST engine i cut my teeth on and messed with in the mid 2000s.i wanna do it again because parts were hard to come by back then lol

Thank you so much for making this series I have always been stuck with what I should do to my 360! also could you possibly show the tune I didn't see any previous videos.

Interested in the beer keg vs regular intake

For some reason my 97 Dakota is very picky with injectors. I had a misfire on cylinder 2 and diagnosed it as an injector. I used 3 different aftermarket injectors from AutoZone and O'Reilly's and the misfire persisted. I was stumped for a while. Thought I might have misdiagnosed it and went through the steps again. Sure enough, I had it right the first time. I moved the brand-new aftermarket injector to another cylinder and the misfire followed. I measured the resistance of the aftermarket injector and compared it to a good OEM one from another cylinder and the aftermarket injector was at 14 or 15 ohms if I remember correctly and the OEM was 8 or 9 ohms so that was the problem. I finally broke down and paid the extra $60 dollars for an OEM Mopar injector and the problem went away.

There is no guarantee that the oil from a sealed jug is not contaminated from the "factory". I would not pre charge an oil filter. Pull plugs and rotate engine if you are worried about dry start up .

Bought one now I'm learning from the man

Awesome...thanx

Richard you’re looking YOKED! You look you’re making more horsepower than that motor hahaha

Now we need a AMC 360 and 258

Awesome 360 Magnum series! I have several of these engines going into 1968 and 1969 Mopars so all of these videos are really informative.

Great video Mr. Richard! As the great UTG would suggest, flip them pistons! Thank you.

@Patrick-xd8jv

3 ай бұрын

UT is pretty close to the last person I would take advice from

I run the Walmart supertech synthetic I assume it's cheaper than that

Great stuff Richard!

Might as well used a breaker bar to put that oil filter on. Sheeesh! Gonna end up pulling that adapter with the filter lol.

Don't be a piston rotator hater.

@watsisbuttndo829

3 жыл бұрын

We all know what a 150 nitrous shot adds! ,, spin those slugs just for giggles!

I always wanted to try a carb on that intake with a hei distributor

@chaddavis7228

3 жыл бұрын

I've got that setup in my Plymouth lots of fun and it's a 318

Richard Holdener Joke...."We make do with what we have"...the Lorne Green Skit with the Osmands. ...

Looks like Edelbrock manifolds are on backorder until October but I'd be down to purchase and send you one of the ProProducts knockoffs on loaner to show how bad that stock keg is. Just PM me if that's something you're interested in Also if you're planning on EngineQuest heads, they no longer make the nice aftermarket ones. Now they're factory cores and not fresh castings. Giveaway is the freeze plug on the front so unless you can find them used you're stuck with stock or the 2 aluminum ootions, Edelbrock or TrickFlow

It is a torque monster! lol

Love to see a 5.2 🥰

Can't wait to put one in my duster

sick thanks for this Richard!

Awesome!

Finally a test on this engine. Wish you were doing more NA mods but oh well. I would have liked to see power with a bigger cam and exhaust. Maybe even the amazing EQ heads !!!!

@JoeyGarcia

3 жыл бұрын

I have a set of EQ heads on my 360. They've been great so far. Seen about 10,000 miles on them so far. Maybe more...gauge stopped working. LOL

Time to mod mine. Muhaha

Great video! When are you doing an FE?

@smokenchoken1736

3 жыл бұрын

As soon as we can get him a good 390 😉

Que Muse. My KeglaDon Mopowah Intake Babeyh!!!!!! Chrysler Fire My Enemy.....

It’s pretty wild that you bolt that thing to the Dyno (is that for just fitting things up?) before it really runs, those are lots of things I would be worried about with it hangin on there. Of course I could see you touched all the bases though, spark, fuel, oil, etc. so its like you knew the future.

I'd almost expected it to drop off more with a dead hole than it did: if it was 278 with that timing and 245 with the dead hole, that's almost exactly 7/8. I figured there'd be more downside of not getting anything from one hole.

That oil filter definitely isn't coming off. Lol.

@richardholdener1727

3 жыл бұрын

I'M PRETTY WEAK-IT'S NOT VERY TIGHT

@SARJENT.

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardholdener1727 lol. Compared to what? I have a tendency to do the same thing. Despite the directions on the filter. Better than having a double gasket. Trick Flow heads would be awesome!

Thank you for posting i always wondered if the holley system could control the mopar stuff

@dahut3614

4 ай бұрын

Stupid expensive though.

The biggest drawback on magnums is the cam...... go up a stage or 2 and they really start waking up 😉

Honest feedback, I think you over tightened the oil filter. In my experience, they don’t come loose, if anything they stay tight. If anyone thinks this is wrong, please explain-and thank you!

@richardholdener1727

Жыл бұрын

SWING AND A MISS

So, all in, how much are we talking for the Holley HP ECU and all required "extras?"

I'm a Mopar guy but GEE, that sure seems a lot like the power curve of a GM 350 TPI engine...............

@richardholdener1727

3 жыл бұрын

long runners do that

Perfect place to show a 100hp gain with just a cam swap!

@richardholdener1727

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure that's possible with this combo

@joserocha4853

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardholdener1727 Utawesome Performance look them up! They claim huge gains from cam and tunes!

@kelseyschoenbaum4681

3 жыл бұрын

I bet it'll be close to 100hp with the right cam swap. The only things in you combination that will be negatively affecting getting 100hp from a cam swap will be your small port manifolds and the factory 8:1 compression ratio. Too big of cam with stock compression you'll loose power, too small you won't make enough.

@frigglebiscuit7484

3 жыл бұрын

@@kelseyschoenbaum4681 5.9 magnums had 9:1.

@kelseyschoenbaum4681

3 жыл бұрын

@@frigglebiscuit7484 the 318 magnum had flat top pistons which gave 9:1 compression, the 360 magnums used dished pistons and are 8:1. It specifies 8:1 in my 2003 factory service manual and in my 1993 factory service manual so it never changed throughout production.

should do a video with single turbo boosting a 5.9 magnum!

Mopar’s always run.

You gonna have to CUT that oil filter off! Geeze! Just hand tight, brotha!

@codyramos3200

3 жыл бұрын

Thats a surprise for the next guy

I think you can get a wix built filter from Napa 4 Less Than That STP filter which is made in China

That spray pattern on those injectors suck, we sure have come along way I haven’t we?!

how much power does a 350 vartec with a lt4 hot cam and with a 750 quick fuel carb make i converted spider inj to carb

STP=Sticky Toilet Paper

FOR THE ALGORITHM!

@richardholdener1727

3 жыл бұрын

how about for love of the data

@Link-we8so

3 жыл бұрын

FOR THE LOVE OF THE MOPAR DATA!

@Link-we8so

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardholdener1727 but actually thanks! It's hard to find quality data on mopars...

Need a real test with 408 and trick flow headfs with full cam for those heads. No one has yet to post videos. I am thinking 600 horsepower can be achieved

With the 02 sensor so close to the end of the pipe, you are going to get air mixed in and get a bad reading IMHO. It would be cool to see the vortex Chevy 350 go up against the mopar 360!

@richardholdener1727

3 жыл бұрын

I have tested the stock 350 Vortec motor was well, but only with a dual plane intake

@codyramos3200

3 жыл бұрын

Wtf is a vortex 350... that the bootleg version of a vortec 350?

Finally!!!

You should do a V10 Magnum