manual trans diesel record "build"
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Good luck. That'd be an awesome trophy to have. You might spark a time beating war lol.
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I've already got a few messages on insta and my new Facebook. Bunch of people asking just about everything lol. I answer them all honesty, I think a built engine zf setup like mine could do mid tens alot easier than everyone thinks. I think there's some stick shift guys out there with a fire under there ass now.
Hell ya man. I've had sticks my whole life besides a 06 dodge and my current 08 lmm. Wish they never did away with the stick in GM trucks. Good luck man I look forward to watching your shatter the record sounds like your on the right track for sure. Mid tens would be nuts in a stick. Although I don't remember the times and this is kind of apples and oranges there was a guy I seen on YouTube who set some crazy ass record in a Subaru sti with stock interior weight that was a manual. And I wanna say one of the records was fastest 0 to 60. I bring it up because you can definitely set records as long as you can shift.
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appreciate the kind words. Almost just doing this to prove it to myself that it can be done.
I think people like hearing it's a zf, then I tell them it's a stock engine with a cast wheel s475 lol
Haha ya well I hope you can do it. That things gonna shit and get either way. What clutch did you go with?
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Oh ya I forgot the newer Colorados come in a manual. Only 2 wheel drive models and I doubt that includes the duramax model.
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South bend ceramic dual disc. A manual Colorado diesel would be pretty sweet!
Nice. I went with that in my old 7.3. Good clutch more then I needed. But ya idk if that includes the Colorado duramax. Doubtful. I know two different guys who had the zf Trans and after a better clutch was installed they were bulletproof.
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So is it the same transmission as the one that was in my 7.3? May be a dumb question.
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They are slightly different, gears are cut at a steeper angle on the gm version to reduce Noise but lowered the torque rating on the gm. Ford had a tranny cooler in the radiator like an auto with a fluid pump in the trans and gm doesn't. Gm added a sloppy rubber bushing to the shifter to reduce noise also. Which made it hard to feel gears so they made the pattern wider on the gm version. All I know is the gm version is rated for 520 foot Pounds I believe and I know they take way more than that.
That's interesting. Can you put one up to a lmm?
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Ya no doubt. Is there a story behind that? I think even ford's went to just automatics.
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Im sure it's something to do with sales being low because of the new smart automatics.