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02-13-2011, 10:49 PM
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glad you like it. im going to be hooking mine back up to my tips sometime this year as well as a electric cutout on the ory.
as for now when i get my tax return back i am going to be putting the rst air dam, lower billet grille and fogs back on my truck.
oh, and i just purchased a set of 799 heads to put on my lq9. im gonna have them milled to get the compression up to 11.5:1 and gonna see bout having a cam spec'd out for it too. tryin to get it ready for a local forum dyno day (apr 30th) and then track day the following weekend. so ill should have some good stuff to put up here between now and may.
im also looking into a strange full rear end... well housing and hardened axles, a set of mt et streets and im looking at getting my powder coated parts painted to match the factory color. im like a little school boy over here. i can wait till its done.
as for now when i get my tax return back i am going to be putting the rst air dam, lower billet grille and fogs back on my truck.
oh, and i just purchased a set of 799 heads to put on my lq9. im gonna have them milled to get the compression up to 11.5:1 and gonna see bout having a cam spec'd out for it too. tryin to get it ready for a local forum dyno day (apr 30th) and then track day the following weekend. so ill should have some good stuff to put up here between now and may.
im also looking into a strange full rear end... well housing and hardened axles, a set of mt et streets and im looking at getting my powder coated parts painted to match the factory color. im like a little school boy over here. i can wait till its done.
02-14-2011, 01:36 AM
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I know the feeling... but i also have to keep the Mrs. happy to so i cant spend too much of it
Im hoping by mid spring im going to have the cam, valve kit, E-fans, ORY, and LT's installed... Gonna try and do most of the work myself to save on the wallet but im prob gonna send it to a local specialty shop to do the more complex labor that i just dont have the time to do myself for it. I'd like to throw some 4.10 gears on the girl but that might have to wait until summer
Ok, here's a question to go with that last statement... Once installed ill post some dyno #'s but ik alot of ppl have that basic setup on their trucks already. Is the factory tranny gonna be able to take that 100+ Hp increase or should i be looking to upgrading it?
^^^^^^^ eventually a t-56 is going in it i just dont have the $$$$ laying around for that yet
02-14-2011, 05:34 AM
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Look up a member on here by the name of hirdelj. He should be able to answer that, he has a 6.0L with the stock 5-speed.
The only downfall to the 5-speed is you can't really race it, cuz it doesn't shift well at high rpms. Doing a drill mod on the hydraulic line to the slave helps, but doesn't fix it completely. Search this thread for drill mod, I explain what you need to do.
The only downfall to the 5-speed is you can't really race it, cuz it doesn't shift well at high rpms. Doing a drill mod on the hydraulic line to the slave helps, but doesn't fix it completely. Search this thread for drill mod, I explain what you need to do.
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02-14-2011, 10:53 AM
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I spoke with hirdelj once. Didn't seem that it had been a problem and he had no problems IIRC with the 5-speed. Not that I would bang on it as hard as I do now.
....more to come soon.