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TVS 2650 > whipple. The TVS is more efficient and will make less heat. The Edelbrock’s kit will also come with a bigger heat exchanger. Can even turn it into a dual pass if you can find some local shop to do it. Cam: email GPI and tell them your setup and they will spec you a cam that’ll fit your need. It’s an extra $25 to whatever cam kit you’ll get. I suggest staying with a low lift cam. You won’t be missing much power but your valvetrain will last a lot longer. Get the whole dual spring, CHE trunnion, Johnson lifters (NOT LS7 lifters!), 3/8 pushrods and etc. Do them right the first time and don’t worry about it again. engine: Katech thermostat, NGK 6510 gapped them to 0.025”. OEM wires and coils are plenty but if you wanna get new wires, granatelli have some bad ass 0 ohms wires. Make sure they have heat sleeve on them or you can get some from Amazon. Cheap Chinese one will do. exhaust: 1 7/8 of any brand you want. Don’t go with any smaller primaries. 3.5-4” for the rest of the exhaust. Vibrant GESI have high flow cats if whatever Longtube company doesn’t have any high flow cat Y/X pipe available. Straight thru mufflers no baffles styles. The more free flowing exhaust, the more easy power you’ll make. Fuel: I suggest upgrading the in-tank pump to a TI automotive 535 (not 525 aka “hellcat” pump). It’s almost a direct replacement to the factory hanger/bucket. The OEM LT4 injectors and HPFP will do for 550-600hp with full E85. No need for oversize LT4 injectors or big bore HPFP. Trans: Do the trans thermostat mod or get a lower temp Tstat. Adding a TruCool 40k wouldn’t hurt either. Other supporting mod: Get yourself some traction bars. Either VAS or Caltrac. With more TQ, you don’t you want any axle wrap. Instead, use that force to give you traction. If you have an aluminum driveshaft , upgrading it to something stronger. PerformanceDriveline have a great piece and great customer service.

I’m running Dama 35W setup. Love it. It’s been almost 3 years now and I think it is slightly dimmer than when it was new. But it is still working problem free.

When boost weather is too good. 40degree ambient temp. 65mph roll. 305/50/20 Nitto NT555R2.

No need to buy thermostat for the trans. Follow this link T stat flip. Free and easy. I’ve been running this for 3 years now and never have a problem.

I don’t know but I don’t think so. Havnt heard of anything like that. I wish we can swap the 6L90 tho! That would be awesome. But it doesn’t work. Only the 6l90 converter fits our trucks.

I don’t know too much about trans. But I believe the older 6L80E will not be able to communicate with our generation 6L80…. Totally different. If you still have the original core, I would just send it out and get it built.

Even at 550 at the wheels is easy. I was DD mine for about 2 years at 560+ beating the crap out of it any chance I get and it was perfectly fine. Just make sure you use the right tuner that know what they are doing. A lot of trucks don’t run right or last long because of the tuner. Goodluck! Ask away if you got any questions.

Quick “mod”. Adding these FilterWear since the hood now have a bunch of openings and one of them is right above the air filter.

Depends on your power level goal. If you’re going to make 600-650, stock trans is perfectly fine. Few things I would do tho. 1. Make sure your current trans cooler gets professionally flushed out. 2. Add an aftermarket trans cooler ADDITION to the stock one. 3. Flip the thermostat pill like SeekandDestroy said. 4. Upgrade the converter to a minimum 6L90 converter. Or jump into something from Circle D. Single disk is perfectly fine if your tuner doesn’t lock up in WOT. And the most important part after doing all that…. Make sure you get a tuner that knows how to tune these trucks!!!!!!

Got around to throwing this Carbon Creation hood on. Kinda like it, kinda too much. Definitely can’t drive it in the rain tho. The vent is right above the air filter.

Gave this tank a nice wash today. Last time I washed it was February 11th….

Depends on how much power you’re after. Like the 2 post above me said, G80 and driveshaft will let go pretty quick. Trans if it’s healthy, with the right tuner, it’ll hold 700-750. I was beating on mine for 2 years at about 580 and turn turn up to 750-800 and it STARTED to slip 4th. You’ll need injectors, HPFP and in tank pump if you wanna do E85 or any decent amount of power. Stock injectors will probably limit you to about mid-high 400. Depends on dyno and the whole setup. Stock engine can probably handle 600 if it’s tuned right. P.S. blowers are more fun at lower power level. Makes it feel more alive. INSTANT TQ

Had some time today so I decided to finish up the truck. Good thing i didn’t rush to start it yesterday. The wastegate line was hook up wrong. Here’s a quick little short on how it sounds. Haven’t really got on it yet. Gonna give it at least 500 miles of break-in.

Got to put in a few hours today. Still need to put the drive shaft back in and just button up all the little things. Few more hours sometime next week and it should be back to life!!!!

Wheels are 20x9.5.

There are a few options (listing from $ to $$$): 1. 2019+ rotors and calipers. (Can run 17” wheels) 2. 2019+ Tahoe PPV. They are basically the Brembo’s 6 pistons kit but without the logos and paint and it’s a lot cheaper. (Will need 20” wheels or bigger) 3. C6 ZR1 calipers and big 16.1” rotors. (Will need 20” wheels or bigger). 4. Wilwood or Brembo BBK kit. Im running the C6 ZR1 setup currently and it’s awesome.

Engine went back in yesterday. All that’s left is putting the whole front end back in and all the pipings for the intercooler. Ohhh and redo the trans cooler. Gotta move it back up front, having it under the truck with its own fan wasn’t all that great. Temp was in the 180-200 all the time.

The engine had 36k on it before it got pulled out. 10-12k of that was boost with about 12psi. Get beat on ALLLL the time. When I pulled it, there was 0 issue at all. I pulled it because I wanted to turn it up and I had some down time since it was summer break. The trans however, was starting to let go in 4th gear. We were making 750-800 and it started to slip then grab slip then grab. The TC clutches was also slipping and not holding power on the dyno. So we did a few run at the end and it only showed 745 with it unlocked on the last pass. The stock driveshaft was switched out to a HD one from performance driveline just cuz i knew I wanted to make some power and stock one aren’t so good and holding power and speed…

Finally got some time to put the engine back together. First round turns out the machine shop didn’t give the main bearing enough clearances and it was too tight… wiped out the bearings within 150-200 miles…. Took the block back and had them open up the clearances. Also threw in a C5R chain and Katech oil pump. Hopefully within the next few weeks, I’ll have some more time to throw it back in the truck. Trans also got rebuilt with Circle D lvl 4 and Sonnax zip kit. The converter also came back from circle D for a refresh and new clutches. Driveshaft is also back from performance driveline getting balanced and looked over again. Can’t wait to have this truck back on the road. (Forgot to take pictures of all the goodies inside the engine. Doh)

It allllllll depends on your tuner and the ring gap. These engines come with very tight ring gaps from the factory. If you have a good tuner, running E and meth, 650 shouldn’t be a problem. That’s where I was at roughly with my blower setup. Idk what your power goal is, but I would up your fuel system (low side and high side) so you can run E85 and max out your meth pump. Having a lot of meth and E will help keep your out of trouble from knock and high IAT. Also if you don’t have trans cooler already, make sure you get one setup before the trans leave the chat room.

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Idk… I’m still at stock height in front. GL

You’ll definitely be rubbing.

Depends on offset and tires. I’m running 20x10+10 with 305/50/20 420S and it only rubs IF you have mud flaps.

For the price of the Range, I would rather spend that on a handheld tuner. You can do way more than the range.