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Old Mar 3, 2010 | 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by GMC_DUDE
I did the same shortly afterwards. In fact you were the inspiration. The 3.25" pulley made 10 psi boost. My maggie came with the 42 lb. marine injectors, and they were fine, but at their limits (about 85% duty cycle IIRC). The stock maggie tune was pretty much OK as well. I only had to tweak the power enrichment cut-in to avoid a lean spot where I would have 1-2 psi boost but still stoich AFR. BTW, still have the maggie (almost 6 years now) and it still runs great.

EDIT: Should mention, this was for a regular truck with an aftermarket maggie kit, not a Joe Gibbs truck.
Yeah, I remember that. I wish I would have stopped there.
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Old Mar 3, 2010 | 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by hellbents10
...Should be fun till the 5sp breaks!
i believe his trans will be fine. there's a RCSB guy beatin on his with an 8.1 & still running strong (even after the abuse from his 454). i even talked to a guy from JGP a few weeks ago & he said they never had any problems with the transmissions with the power they were making
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Old Mar 4, 2010 | 08:22 AM
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i believe his trans will be fine. there's a RCSB guy beatin on his with an 8.1 & still running strong (even after the abuse from his 454). i even talked to a guy from JGP a few weeks ago & he said they never had any problems with the transmissions with the power they were making
I went a 12.58 1/4 and 445/489 pwr to the wheels on mine. Never broke.
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Old Mar 4, 2010 | 01:31 PM
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I went a 12.58 1/4 and 445/489 pwr to the wheels on mine. Never broke.
nice!!

but it still stinks for me because before i learned what all this trans could take, i decided against the 6.0 so i would keep my trans 'safe'

now that the new's wore off, i'm starting to wish i'd've gone 6.0
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Old Mar 4, 2010 | 01:36 PM
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I don't know where the 5 speed got it's bad rep. I think it is from the 4L60e boys jealous since theirs can last beyond a couple of bolt-ons.
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Old Mar 4, 2010 | 05:37 PM
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true that!
heck... even the 3/4ton dodges used the same NV3500 (just with the s10 gearing & obviously the dodge bellhousing/input/output shafts)

what i thought was funny was that the LD2500s got the regular nv3500 while the 4.7 dakotas got the nv3500HD (a little higher torque rating & different gears)
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