Anybody Watch Xtreme 4x4 Today

[durallymax]

New episode today showing his new project. A tube chassis off road buggy built from the ground up from scratch with 54" Bajas and an LB7/Allison. I missed the first few minutes where he talked about the powerplant.

But it should be interesting to see what they have in store for the ol' Dmax.

Kinda neat they didnt get lazy and choose a 12 valve Cummins like every other joe blow.

 

[MattZ71]

i watched also, from my understanding they are gonna put the motor almost in-between the driver/passenger, i bet that down pipe they didn't "measure" for will get warm!

 

[blackdmax15]

Haha good point on the DP. All you missed about the motor was that they pulled it out of a reg cab 2wd salvaged truck for like 5 grand. And he said it was the first dmax to go in a offroad buggy. I'm excited about this project for sure.

 

[MattZ71]

i bet they will put a "banks six gun" or edge on it, seems like thats all they think is available for the diesel!! will be interesting to see what happens. The show is taped in Nashville TN, about 45min from me, might have to ride down there for this when they test

 

[ChevyDieselLLY]

guess we need to email them and let them know what is just out there for the old dmax. let them get some real power out of it. but i guess for a rock buggy you dont need 1000 hp and 1800 tq

 

[JoshH]

guess we need to email them and let them know what is just out there for the old dmax. let them get some real power out of it. but i guess for a rock buggy you dont need 1000 hp and 1800 tq

While you're at it, you might as well let them know they're about 2 years late on being the first Duramax powered buggy: http://www.duramaxdiesels.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3589

 

[durallymax]

well, first LB7 powered one then

wonder what theyre gonna do when their edge juice leaves them stranded.

 

[Dozerboy]

I just caught the tail end of it and thought that looked like a LB7/Ally sitting on the floor.:thumb:

 

[TheBac]

well, first LB7 powered one then

wonder what theyre gonna do when their edge juice leaves them stranded.

Heh heh....bet they dont know about that little flaw.

Id like to see them fire it up and it smokes like hell and need injectors. I dont know why, but it'd just be funny as hell to me.

 

[emiller3]

It should be interesting.Glad they ere going with a dmax.

 

[fishsmith]

Maybe they can call the guy with onstar in his buggy to come pull them out.:rofl:

 

[THEFERMANATOR]

I know they did the SUBURBAN GORILLA a few years back and went with all the BANKS stuff out there right down to there controller for the engine. And they backed it up with one of the first PCS prototype TCM's for the ALLISOn that never panned out. About a year ago though IAN posted over on pirate4X4 that it was into a shop having the electronics replaced as the BANKS ECM was just to complicated and troublesome for a daily driver and that the TCM had some MAJOR flaws in it. I thought it was funny that the guys who built it on the show couldn't handle swapping in stock electrical from a truck into a project vehicle that made such a big deal out of. And it was real interesting how they never aired all the problems they had with it on the show, but he did post about about some of them on http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/ . I'm sure it will get all the boxxed stuff that one can get from a catalog on it.

 

[beach_33]

that truck is sitting at fleece. i saw it there when i was there. when they couldnt figure out what the problem was with it they sent it to brayden. he told me that he was going to swap out contollers and put efi on it. suprises me that they wouldnt just have brayden tune this lb7 for them out of the box. wouldnt suprise me if they put a vvt on it with a turbo brake for spool up

 

[countrycorey]

Didnt they put Brayden's turbo brake on a black LMM 1-ton dually they built a little while back?

 

[Will]

I thought that they said it was an LBZ?

 

[THEFERMANATOR]

that truck is sitting at fleece. i saw it there when i was there. when they couldnt figure out what the problem was with it they sent it to brayden. he told me that he was going to swap out contollers and put efi on it. suprises me that they wouldnt just have brayden tune this lb7 for them out of the box. wouldnt suprise me if they put a vvt on it with a turbo brake for spool up

I thought that was where they sent it, but couldn't remember for certain. It just cracks me up how they built it up on the show and there was never a show showing it being used. Then I find out later on when researching for my swap that they had to send it to somebody to replace the stuff they were talking up so big on the show. Gotta love these new infomercials that run in 30 minute blocks.

 

[TheBac]

You guys are SURPRISED about any of that? Banks is a big advertiser...so what parts do you think these shows are going to run? Duh. Of course the show would never tell the public those parts dont actually work, and someone else (who isnt an advertiser) has to fix the issue.

Those shows are just "DP Magazine Live" anyway, which should clue you in to their legitimacy in the first place.

 

[countrycorey]

Didnt they say that the engine came out of a 2006 truck?

 

[THEFERMANATOR]

Didnt they say that the engine came out of a 2006 truck?

Yep. It's on again right now and they say it's an 06 2500HD donor they bought for $4500. Of course this is false though as it is an 02 2500HD as it is definately an 01-02 front end, injectors under the valve cover, early style AC compressor, and an 02-04 intake. It would be nice if they could even get the year right, but like has been said it's the DP live.

 

[countrycorey]

Gotcha, thanks for clearing that up for me.