370/MP122 Build
#191
Special thnx to Mark aka TRANNYMAN and Butch from the CT Avalanche Chapter for giving the the tutorial at Dr Nicks Transmission in Milford! These guys are full of info on these motors and they're the ones who recognized my oil probs right away. Swapped out my Moroso pan and remote filter for a stock unit. Was getting oil aeration due to the pick-up O-ring being the non-GM OEM piece...obvious difference in thickness. Results were remarkable...idle smoothed out, power curve feels steeper, and oil temps dropped by 30-40*. Most important got rid of the leaky remote fittings. Also removed my oil cooler; 2 reasons - First forget to get the new fitting to install it with the stock unit, second...was suggested that less travel and external fittings might be a good thing. Certainly hasn't hurt! One less bug!
Last edited by dhpro; 11-12-2008 at 12:31 PM.
#193
Update: 496rwhp/555torq @ 8lbs on dynojet yest....Thanx to Brian at Magnusson new CTSV exchanger installed - found the old one was pretty gunked up and the bigger unit and better flow really helped! All electrical gremlins are fixed (AC, lites, 4wd...etc), except foer the TB. Havent had the "reduced power" msg in a while and traced it to a bad connector on the TB itself - Richard @ WCCH tracked down a new one and shud be en route! Tie wrapped the TB harness up tight temporarily and seems to be jerry rigged for the moment. Its away for the winter now and we'll see about a little work on ramping up boost, 8 rib pulley install and general tweaking early in 09. I'm just happy its finally working out the bugs. R/
#199
damn i got a headache just readin about all ur problems on this build and almost wanted to hang myslf since im goin with a forged 370 with a 122 maggy as well but just readin up on builds from different ppl with 370s to see wut i can avoid before divin head first glad to hear its out and about and acting more manner like instead of giving u those hassles glad my tuner knows his chet enought to spec me a cam as well and will even come to my house if needed to turn my truk on and get it tuned and dyno is only down the street for me and in my area the trukin scene owns all cant go to the corner stor without bein romped at by another fast gm truk alot of shops here are familiar in the trukin scene
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