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  1. othrgrl

    Coilovers!!

    I don't know what I missed or turned around - you stated as fact about 4 times and different ways, with your experience to back it up, that it is completely unnecessary to gusset or support the upper shock mount in any way. I couldn't care less if you personally want to take the risk, but I...
  2. othrgrl

    Coilovers!!

    Mine are done just like Chris' (moparkxracer). At the very least I would finish welding them to the frame, but again on a customer's truck I would not roll one out of the shop without the gussets like what Chris and I have. It's not worth having someone get hurt or the liability of it and I...
  3. othrgrl

    Broken Crankshaft Count?

    Pretty sure mine is broken at the #2 since it still ran and I can move the balancer. Crank was out of a bone stock Kodiak, was magged, balanced, ATI balancer, 15.5:1 compression, electric fans, single CP3, electric water pump, motor was only in for less than a year and only had about 5,000...
  4. othrgrl

    New toy for the Cobra

    I was hoping to see some Hellion parts....
  5. othrgrl

    Coilovers!!

    You would have a few options to run double adjustable QA1s. The cheaper non coil over shock that are stud top will bolt in with a mod to the lower mount is the TD501. I ran the DTC1538P, which is the old part number and liked them a lot. With stock keys all the way down or lowering keys you...
  6. othrgrl

    Coilovers!!

    I had 900# springs on my truck and with the QA1 compression turned all the way down I thought it was still a little stiff. I switched to 800# and was able to turn the compression up some and liked the ride much more.
  7. othrgrl

    LLY: After Head Gasket Questions

    It's something I learned working on helicopter engines - any MLS or dead soft type of gasket got torqued multiple times until you couldn't get any more turn out of it before reaching your torque spec, then got safety wired so it couldn't back off. One of those things that's a "trick of the...
  8. othrgrl

    Finally Hitting The Track

    The 16x10s are $320 per wheel. I have had a lot of guys need slicks, borrow mine and love them, and just never order (direct from Real) because of the lead time on custom rims - that was a big factor in buying in and keeping them on the shelf. I needed a set of 16x12s with 6" of back spacing...
  9. othrgrl

    Odd allison problem

    So did they do anything to the valve body to where you couldn't have just put new gain valves in it.
  10. othrgrl

    LLY: After Head Gasket Questions

    A cap will only hold back 15 PSI of coolant system pressure. If a gasket is blown you have thousands of PSI of cylinder pressure pushing past it into the coolant system, but 15 PSI is not likely to be enough to push into the cylinder and leak down. On MLS gaskets you should always pull final...
  11. othrgrl

    Finally Hitting The Track

    Those rims are killing you in a few ways: Their weight - if I had to guess I would say your tire and rim combo probably weighs 65 lbs per corner compared to about 37 on PYOs with stockish tires. Driven rotating weight makes roughly 8 times the difference of the same static weight being on...
  12. othrgrl

    Odd allison problem

    He probably couldn't get the valves to drop into the bores sense they have to be lined up perfect, so grinding them was his "solution".
  13. othrgrl

    5 speed drum in a 6 speed??

    That is a completely different situation - you weren't modifying something, you built a fabricated kit and sourced an off the shelf turbo that worked well for the application. Anyone with a decent fab shop and a source for the turbo could easily buy one of your kits, use it to make jigs, and...
  14. othrgrl

    5 speed drum in a 6 speed??

    While you make some valid points that people will always try to reverse engineer anything that succeeds you are very wrong on a few points as well. Why would we put in the time, money, and thought into coming up with better ways to build a transmission that would hold up only to turn around...
  15. othrgrl

    5 speed drum in a 6 speed??

    There is a difference between "bells and whistles" and "trade secrets", building a high hp trans is a lot more than using the best parts. Someone that knows what they are doing can use old Alto Reds or other "lesser" parts and have them hold up to really high power, while someone that doesn't...
  16. othrgrl

    5 speed drum in a 6 speed??

    From things I've seen here in "prebuilt" units, most places will throw one together with everything except the bell housing and valve body and then throw those in to fit the truck it's ordered for. As Evan said 5 speed drums can be built up to handle high hp and there is nothing wrong about it...
  17. othrgrl

    Odd allison problem

    It was just odd that someone called looking for an LLY valve body yesterday and it had pretty much the same back story on the truck. Figured it may have been you and when you couldn't find a good used one you went through GM. I would have gone through an Allison dealer directly - it would have...
  18. othrgrl

    .... SSDP is back, and I cant help but laugh

    They are not an Allison performance transmission shop by any stretch of the imagination, you won't find anything about them online. They don't supply or stock parts because they don't know what works and what doesn't for what you are trying to do. They are a very reputable general transmission...
  19. othrgrl

    Charleston, SC

    Chris Neiss (DrHolliday on here) ran a 12.42 in the 1/4 and 7.83 in the 1/8 on 255-85 tires on stock rims on an LBZ with an exhaust, AirDog, shimmed FPRV, built trans, spring clamps and tuning. Period. Stock intake, downpipe, boost tubes, EGR, manifolds, up-pipes, ect. It ran consistent 12.4s...
  20. othrgrl

    Odd allison problem

    Would you happen to be the guy that called looking for an LLY valve body today? I have never had to replace a valve body, except one with valve bores reamed out to run some over sized trim valves (BD valve body IIRC). Have you tested pressure at the test port to see what it is putting out and...
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