For your case, the best thing to do for performance would be to regear to 4.10s and get a custom tune. Together, they’ll make the truck alot more driveable and responsive. Ditto on the e85, it added a nice bump in performance on my old 2015 4.3.
An uncle of mine who owns basically the same truck as you, with it being a 2016, said the same thing about the sluggishness. Last week, he had it custom tuned on a dyno for 93 octane and man it moves now. The tune will completely transform your truck no doubt.
Thanks! Yea the stock wheels looked nice but I've since traded them for 20 inch Denali rims, which I'm probably gonna change again anyways. If this truck had the 5 speed that they still put in the trucks in Mexico then I would never sell or trade.
I'm just gonna add this: If anyone that drives a 4.3 with AFM and has the dreaded vibration/shake in V4 mode, either clamp or delete the exhaust valve. Doing this made the truck SO much smoother with the v4-v6-v4 transitions, and the shake is 95% gone. I haven't even noticed any drone with the valve open.
Yea I know what you mean. I'm guessing the dealer added it to both our trucks before purchased. If it's just a simple stripe down the side it doesn't look bad, to me at least.
Just curious if anyone has a pinstripe on their truck? With the exception of my truck and my dad's 2016 2500 duramax I've never seen another k2xx with a pinstripe.
The fuel pump priming when you open the door is a new feature on the 2017s, probably to shorten the start times on the DI engines.
As for the surging, I've seen some posts on people having to replace the torque converters on brand new 2017s because of that.
I read on another forum that the shudder could be fixed by clamping open the flapper valve in the exhaust. My 4.3 has a slight but noticeable shudder in v4-v6, so I'll do it when I have time.