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Originally Posted by kp
ts stickered for 33.2, but they gave it to me for invoice minus the 4K, plus another 500 for being on the lot for 10 months. I was originally going to buy a loaded up AWD but this one just looked so sad sitting in the corner of the lot I had to take it home, looked like it hadnt been washed in 6 months.
Its a nice color Mike, I wanted a blue one but there is none to found around here.
Only thing that gets me is I'm reading on the TBSS boards that the transmissions puke on these STOCK pretty often under 15K miles. Dont know if thats just because a lot of the same people keep having problems on the boards, I have great luck with every truck I towed with that had a 4L60 do its hard to believe that one of these stock could tear up the trans that easy, its pretty quick stock but its no monster thats for sure.
Its a nice color Mike, I wanted a blue one but there is none to found around here.
Only thing that gets me is I'm reading on the TBSS boards that the transmissions puke on these STOCK pretty often under 15K miles. Dont know if thats just because a lot of the same people keep having problems on the boards, I have great luck with every truck I towed with that had a 4L60 do its hard to believe that one of these stock could tear up the trans that easy, its pretty quick stock but its no monster thats for sure.
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Kev, magnacharger makes a kit for those things and they are pretty impressive. 
The transmission, well, they are just a upgraded 4L60E as you know, can't expect too much from it. 
Nice choice on a new vehicle.
The transmission, well, they are just a upgraded 4L60E as you know, can't expect too much from it. Nice choice on a new vehicle.
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Kev, magnacharger makes a kit for those things and they are pretty impressive. The transmission, well, they are just a upgraded 4L60E as you know, can't expect too much from it.
Nice choice on a new vehicle.
The transmission, well, they are just a upgraded 4L60E as you know, can't expect too much from it. Nice choice on a new vehicle.
I dont know what I'll do if the trans craps, 4l80 wont be an option since I'm not going to go too far with this, already have one race car I'm sick of working on. Thats why I'll play with it fairly stock for a while and see how things hold up. Its just like the dmax/allison I have, on the boards lot of guys are killing the stock transmissions with a 75hp tune and others get 100K out of them with a 100hp tune so I'll wait and see how the shifts hold up and the fluid looks after 5,000 miles before I start putting some power in it.
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Originally Posted by kp
I now, but man I've beat on my 5.3 trucks hard for 25-30K towing and never had a bit of problems out of the 4L60s. My old 2K Z28 ran low 11s at full weight for a year on a stock 4L60 with no cooler, my C5 ran low 11s and I started modding the car with 76K on the stock 4L60. Look at the GTOs and vettes, they arent puking that quick, same with the vortec max trucks. So I'm not sure if they are just getting the **** beat out of them or there is just something wrong with the programming or hard parts in these. 11.90s out of 4500lbs doesn't sound too unreasonable but maybe its asking a bit much.
I dont know what I'll do if the trans craps, 4l80 wont be an option since I'm not going to go too far with this, already have one race car I'm sick of working on. Thats why I'll play with it fairly stock for a while and see how things hold up. Its just like the dmax/allison I have, on the boards lot of guys are killing the stock transmissions with a 75hp tune and others get 100K out of them with a 100hp tune so I'll wait and see how the shifts hold up and the fluid looks after 5,000 miles before I start putting some power in it.
I dont know what I'll do if the trans craps, 4l80 wont be an option since I'm not going to go too far with this, already have one race car I'm sick of working on. Thats why I'll play with it fairly stock for a while and see how things hold up. Its just like the dmax/allison I have, on the boards lot of guys are killing the stock transmissions with a 75hp tune and others get 100K out of them with a 100hp tune so I'll wait and see how the shifts hold up and the fluid looks after 5,000 miles before I start putting some power in it.
Talk with the guys over on the truck site about it, I know some of them have already upgraded the trans.
http://www.performancetrucks.net/for...play.php?f=178
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I can do a trans myself and put the good parts in it, kind of defeats the purpose of the whole thing though lol. Maybe I'll just give it to my wife and mod the dmax
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I can do a trans myself and put the good parts in it, kind of defeats the purpose of the whole thing though lol. Maybe I'll just give it to my wife and mod the dmax
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shoot if you want to talk about expensive transmissions! that aly is big bucks to mod!
Maybe I'll just sell em both and buy a new Z06
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You said it has a 100K powertrain warranty right? So who cares if the tranny lets go? You'll get a loaner to beat on and they get to replace the transmission for free. I'm not seeing the downside? If you're concerned about adding mods voiding the warranty, doesn't GMPP have a blower kit for the TBSS that maintains the factory warranty?
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You said it has a 100K powertrain warranty right? So who cares if the tranny lets go? You'll get a loaner to beat on and they get to replace the transmission for free. I'm not seeing the downside? If you're concerned about adding mods voiding the warranty, doesn't GMPP have a blower kit for the TBSS that maintains the factory warranty?
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Originally Posted by TS6
You said it has a 100K powertrain warranty right? So who cares if the tranny lets go? You'll get a loaner to beat on and they get to replace the transmission for free. I'm not seeing the downside? If you're concerned about adding mods voiding the warranty, doesn't GMPP have a blower kit for the TBSS that maintains the factory warranty?
If they do sell a GMPP blower it usually has to be installed at a dealer to retain the factory warranty. By the time thats over I can buy another TBSS for a spare for the same money
But the main downside is just having the truck stop moving in the middle of nowhere, since I will still be using it as a family truckster having the trans die in the middle of Georgia on the way to Disneyworld with a turbo or blower on it is probably not a good scenario.
I'm just really surprised with the number of trans failures I'm reading about, once I put some miles on it and feels OK I'm sure I wont be scared anymore. Or just build a nice trans to begin with and get it over with.
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Originally Posted by blacktransam
100 kit and call it a day.. drops my 1500 from mid 15's to mid 13's and when i needed warrenty work.. it was 1 hr till the kit was off.. 
Nitrous is pretty tempting, I have an older NX single nozzle kit here and EFIlive V2 so I can tune it. If you dont get greedy the LS2s seem to take a smaller hit pretty well.
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Nitrous is pretty tempting, I have an older NX single nozzle kit here and EFIlive V2 so I can tune it. If you dont get greedy the LS2s seem to take a smaller hit pretty well.
That does sound like a better plan kev. plus pulling it off is easy..... so ya still have the warranty...
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That does sound like a better plan kev. plus pulling it off is easy..... so ya still have the warranty...
Maybe just a CAI, torque converter and a good tune for now
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The SRT8s are very cool but this was a hell of a lot cheaper. Plus I have tuning software (well almost, i can read the pcm) and I'm more familiar with the LSx engine/4L60 then the new hemi stuff. There was a very cool copper colored SRT8 I was looking at but just couldnt work the right deal. They are the SUVs to beat right now stock thats for sure
