I think my tsp 408 with my FLT 4l80e is going to beat your northern industrial, tranny Tom combo. I hope your 80e stays in fourth. Plus my heads will help a lot.

 

Real nice Marc. Lol! You better beat me. Your going to be 700-800 pounds lighter.

-edit your also running race gas aren't you?

 

Hurry and finish your truck marc, i wanna see this race before winter comes....

i got nothin but good things to say about northern and tom, and i beat the hell out of my blazer.

ya just need a better tuner...

 

Haven't decided what I'm going to do for fuel yet. Probably super with a bottle or two of octane boost in every tank. And meth injection. My transmission literally won't stay in 4th gear I'm blaming builder not tuner. Driving down the highway doing 80 with 410 gears my truck shouldn't be coasting at 1500 rpms then when you slightly give
It gas the horrible noise stops an it comes up to 2200 I blame Tom. That's why new truck got a FLT transmission. Truck will be running by the end of August I'm sure. Gathering fuel system parts now

 

Bumping this up.

I am finally getting ready to test fire this thing. Life and work pretty much put a stop to all my free time in the last year. I have changed a few small things but pretty much the same as first posted.

I am still waiting for my catch can to come in, and my charge pipes to get done. My granny dip stick should be here Tuesday and then I can fill it and test fire it.

Does anyone know where this bracket goes? I unhooked it from the motor when I pulled it. I left it hooked to the wiring and I still can't figure it out. I thought it bolted to the front of the pan. But I can't figure out how it went. Ideas?

 

Kinda looks like it goes on the transmission. Is that the front or back of the transmission pan?

 

I guess I could have been a little more specific. Sorry. It is at the very front of the engine oil pan. I thought it went to the front of the timing cover on the front bottom driver's side. But it doesn't match up right.

 

I worked on my fuel tank vent today. I remember someone talking about having problems fueling up their pickup after removing all the emission equipment on their truck. So I ran an extra 5/8's line from the rollover valve to the top of the filler neck. Hopefully this works for me. I think atomic is who originally told me about this.




Bear with me. I'm just figuring out how to shrink pics in photo bucket. Kind of time consuming.

 

Yep, that was me! Thats basically what I did except yours is much cleaner. I just had mine going to a littler filter up there.

Download the windows resizer powertoy, it makes resizing pictures much easier.

 

I got my truck started up for the first time. Couldn't believe that everything worked right. Truck fired up immediately and idled great. No ticks or anything that didn't sound right. Finally!

I started it up with only the down pipe installed off the turbo. about 3 minutes into the first startup I started getting oil spray out of my down pipe and all over the underside of my truck. I only found this because of the smoke that started filling up my shop. I can't figure out how a new turbo that had never been run could have the seals out of it? It is a T4 s480 unit. I have a #12 return line and a #4 supply. Has never caused me any problems before. Even at -40 degrees. I did pull the manifold off and check to make sure the oil wasn't coming out of my heads. Especially since this was my first start up.

I sent it to Forced inductions and they are going to go through it for me and check the seals out. Hopefully that is all that is wrong.

On a side note. I took my measurements for my rear driveshaft to be built. The driveline shop told me they were going to build me a 4" .064 wall driveline. Would it be better to have a 3.5" heavier wall shaft? They said that the thicker and heavier wall tubing causes the shaft to deflect more creating a vibration? Any one have any ideas?

I used a duramax front driveshaft and it fit perfect. That one is a much smaller shaft than stock but I think it is a heavier wall shaft.