Been kind of a dream for me

darkness

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I’ve always admired the Kodiak/topkicks. I’ve been looking for a medium duty for years now and just never pulled the trigger for one reason or another. This one popped up a couple weeks ago and it called my name. It’s an ‘05, local truck owned by Ahern Rentals (now United Rentals). It’s a pretty clean truck with 134,000 miles. Going to set the box on my Dads property up north and put a flat bed on it. I already put a tune in it, Pats 20/20 tune. I’ll get it registered next week. Let’s see what can of worms this opens up lol.
 

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Sweet!!! There used to be a guy that ran one at the local 1/8 mile track here. It had a dually truck bed on it. I think he was on one of the other duramax boards. It had a large PPE sticker across the back window.

I always thought they were cool Especially the 4x4 equipped ones.
 

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That was Johnny. Gasuout I think was his forum name.
You are probably right! It was before my time on these boards but I remember the truck.

Do you recall if his was also an LLY? I remember he hurt the trans on one of the outings. I think he snapped a shaft.
 

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Did you look at the original tune vs a stock 2500hd tune? You might get more power from just scripting a stock lly tune into that original tune vs the 20/20 you did. I know the lbz top kicks only get like 60% of what the 2500’s get and it’s all done via limiters that’s easy enough to adjust

You are probably right! It was before my time on these boards but I remember the truck.

Do you recall if his was also an LLY? I remember he hurt the trans on one of the outings. I think he snapped a shaft.

Johnny went through a whooooole lot of transmissions lmao.
 

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I didn’t compare it to a stock tune but the rpo code said it was 300hp. I have a lly file I can check though.

And Johnny is still breaking transmissions. Went thru it again a couple months ago.
 

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I didn’t compare it to a stock tune but the rpo code said it was 300hp. I have a lly file I can check though.

And Johnny is still breaking transmissions. Went thru it again a couple months ago.
Oh damn... well glad he is still around and has the truck. I haven't seen it in while.