Randeez 2012 Budget Yukon Denali Build (stick on hood scoops galore)

[randeez]

Yeah, hitting overdrive would be ******* the transmission, we always held it to 3rd. With 4.10s @ 125 MPH you're motor's turning about 5400-5500 rpms. Up to 130 would be around 5700 mathematically. Is that what you're seeing?

yea except with converter slip unlocked, which is about another 700rpm

 

[swathdiver]

yea except with converter slip unlocked, which is about another 700rpm

Well, you can go back to 3.42s or 3.73s, turbos don't like to pull on a lot of gear or raise the RPMs! Did you build it to spin to 7,000 rpms? How about the transmissions and transfer case?

 

[Onebad1983]

Well, you can go back to 3.42s or 3.73s, turbos don't like to pull on a lot of gear or raise the RPMs! Did you build it to spin to 7,000 rpms? How about the transmissions and transfer case?

If he had a 6.0 or 5.3 he could spin 7k rpm all day on SBE lmao

 

[randeez]

yup, just trying to push the absurdness of 1k hp reliably. itll get turned up as needed with "supporting mods" lol which is now bigger injectors and turbo

 

[swathdiver]

yup, just trying to push the absurdness of 1k hp reliably. itll get turned up as needed with "supporting mods" lol which is now bigger injectors and turbo

Alright then, hammer down! So should we do another get together in a 2-3 weeks? Do you want to run her at Orlando or keep her close to home while you're getting dialed in?

 

[randeez]

i'll prob fix the fuel pressure, tune, and see if it'll actually break into 10s cause that'll be essentially free at this point. turbo did drop pressure a little bit maybe a psi or 2, over each gear shift to red line. was only making about 12-13psi after each shift not sure if theres much left in this "little guy"

i think track messed me up... usually all the racegas, tire smoke, methanol, etc gives me a little head ache in the morning (im getting old? lol) just acts like a hang over but was rough all weekend. they had a lot of meth cars out there that were testing for crap going on all weekend.

 

[Sam Harris]

i'll prob fix the fuel pressure, tune, and see if it'll actually break into 10s cause that'll be essentially free at this point. turbo did drop pressure a little bit maybe a psi or 2, over each gear shift to red line. was only making about 12-13psi after each shift not sure if theres much left in this "little guy"

i think track messed me up... usually all the racegas, tire smoke, methanol, etc gives me a little head ache in the morning (im getting old? lol) just acts like a hang over but was rough all weekend. they had a lot of meth cars out there that were testing for crap going on all weekend.

And is there some reason we haven’t seen the video evidence of said track day...? [emoji35][emoji2959][emoji1787][emoji106][emoji631]

 

[randeez]

yes, cause if it blew apart i wanted to make sure there was no evidence

 

[Sam Harris]

yes, cause if it blew apart i wanted to make sure there was no evidence

[emoji1787] but we wait for this for weeks.. months.. then nothing..? What a tease to see this beautiful engine build, transmission, t-case, and all those lovely supporting mods, and a track day with no evidence.. [emoji35][emoji853][emoji22][emoji3525]

 

[randeez]

[emoji1787] but we wait for this for weeks.. months.. then nothing..? What a tease to see this beautiful engine build, transmission, t-case, and all those lovely supporting mods, and a track day with no evidence.. [emoji35][emoji853][emoji22][emoji3525]

Lol, give it a few days theres a guy that films at all the test n tunes he should have it in there. Only did two runs

 

[Sam Harris]

Lol, give it a few days theres a guy that films at all the test n tunes he should have it in there. Only did two runs

Ok then. We’re waiting.. again.. thank you sir.

 

[pwtr02ss]

I'm glad you finally got it down the race track. Congratulations!

She's going to be beast when you get everything dialed in

 

[randeez]

junk.

cooked a main bearing, 3rd one is the thrust bearing? could have been related to transmission issues or back to being ****** up during delivery if they never actually tore it back down to make sure everything was good. guess its good i caught it before it spit a rod out the side.
sounded like they were saying it would be covered under warranty tho. just sucks i need to find a back up motor, gen4 motors seem to all be $2k tho

 

[Rocket Man]

junk.

cooked a main bearing, 3rd one is the thrust bearing? could have been related to transmission issues or back to being ****** up during delivery if they never actually tore it back down to make sure everything was good. guess its good i caught it before it spit a rod out the side.
sounded like they were saying it would be covered under warranty tho. just sucks i need to find a back up motor, gen4 motors seem to all be $2k tho View attachment 242979

Yep that’s the thrust bearing. Sucks.

 

[Sam Harris]

junk.

cooked a main bearing, 3rd one is the thrust bearing? could have been related to transmission issues or back to being ****** up during delivery if they never actually tore it back down to make sure everything was good. guess its good i caught it before it spit a rod out the side.
sounded like they were saying it would be covered under warranty tho. just sucks i need to find a back up motor, gen4 motors seem to all be $2k tho View attachment 242979

Dammit! Wtf!!?!

 

[swathdiver]

junk.

cooked a main bearing, 3rd one is the thrust bearing? could have been related to transmission issues or back to being ****** up during delivery if they never actually tore it back down to make sure everything was good. guess its good i caught it before it spit a rod out the side.
sounded like they were saying it would be covered under warranty tho. just sucks i need to find a back up motor, gen4 motors seem to all be $2k tho View attachment 242979

Sorry to hear that Randy. Did that get the crankshaft too? LSX?

 

[randeez]

Dammit! Wtf!!?!

mentioned 2 possible reasons why, #3 i'm just really ******* stuff

 

[randeez]

Sorry to hear that Randy. Did that get the crankshaft too? LSX?

not sure, i didnt pull the main cap - didnt want to "interfere" with any diagnosis they are going to have to do to it. they just wanted it back with the pan/pickup to make sure it was correct (it was like 3/16" off the bottom of pan iirc, stock spec). if it were oiling issue id assume it would have cooked a lot more bearings.

damage seems to be in the thrust (forward and backwards movement) so crank should be ok

callies ccw crank

 

[randeez]

Other news...just putzin around with other stuff. Mishimoto radiator. Getting rid of the qdc fittings for trans and oil coolers.
oil side was easy, just an 8an orb (3/4-16) thread size. purple fittings was all i had, not sure if i'll get some natural finish ones to match

trans cooler side was kind a pain, uses same size as stock for tube fitting. but threads are larger than the stock fitting (pulled it out of old radiator and tried). have a handful of other fittings that were close and would thread in one or two threads. turns mishimoto uses a 3/8 inverted flare thread but with an o-ring- which i had some of in the tru-cool 40k already to adapt to 6an fittings.

 

[randeez]

another thing id like to ***** about... accell ceramic cut to length plug wires. maybe i got a bad batch or something but the premade side that goes on the sparkplug, i had 3 of them that pulled the piece out of the insulator i even greased the things too. they were on there for like 2 months if that.

happened before and summit immediately sent out another kit and i was supposed to send back the other ones but now i need the two full kits just to get a single set out of.