"OFFICIAL" What did you do to your D-Max today?

[malibu795]

Lost the baro sensor on the truck, in the hills in Tennessee.. Pretty impressive how fast the LMM turbo will go from 15 to 40 psi.. Driving in hills by boost sucks ass!!! Add another thing I dislike about VVT

Looking at a gtx3582, gt 3788r and a 4088r

 

[malibu795]

Sitting under I95 in Miami waiting

 

[66lilly]

Got my downpipe in! Struggled getting the stock pipe out, but that was it. Definitely worth the pain for the sound!

http://i.imgur.com/TiwpSGq.png

 

[superswamper003]

Got my downpipe in! Struggled getting the stock pipe out, but that was it. Definitely worth the pain for the sound!

http://i.imgur.com/TiwpSGq.png

Can we get a vid? I might suggest this to my friend, his lbz would sound deathly with one of these

 

[DaveZ]

I finally installed my egr delete from sinister, and flashed my efi live tunes. Now I have excessive white smoke when I start it cold until it warms up? Any ideas?

 

[malibu795]

I finally installed my egr delete from sinister, and flashed my efi live tunes. Now I have excessive white smoke when I start it cold until it warms up? Any ideas?

White smoke when cold is normal even on a healthy engine
This was at 10° on my old hotshot. (Lbz) engine with finger pistons. My LMM (stock pistons) smokes white for little bit but not this much..

Fwiw smoking white at operating temp means something is wrong

 

[NC-smokinlmm]

I finally installed my egr delete from sinister, and flashed my efi live tunes. Now I have excessive white smoke when I start it cold until it warms up? Any ideas?

How cold is it? The egr system aids in warm up, all mine have puffed white at start up but that's it. If its really cold I've seen them smoke for 2 mins or so...

 

[malibu795]

Do this all day long

Dragging this brick through the wind

 

[hondarider552]

Removed the remote mount hot pipes, cut off the bellow, tig'd on a new one and reinstalled, gunna drive it today and put the wood to her and see if it seals.

 

[malibu795]

I guess 25-30psi boost for 1200 miles was enough for the HG. Time for LML bolts and HG.. Good thing I'm bob tailing home.. Not to mention had plenty of issue with p02E7 code

 

[Big Block 88]

Lml bolts?

 

[malibu795]

Lml bolts?

Yes sir they are different along with head gaskets..

 

[malibu795]

Lml head bolt..

 

[Big Block 88]

Interesting. Soooo. Why not stud it?

 

[malibu795]

Interesting. Soooo. Why not stud it?

I don't like the idea of studying it without have it torque plate honed especially with the loads I put on it for sustained periods of time. I remember being told back in 08 that the studs can flex the walls enough to bind the piston up on a block that hasn't been tq plate honed with studs.
I'm short I don't want to speed 600 for studs, then X miles later rip a piston and be force to buy stuff at a I need it now price..

I split a piston due to sustained high oil temps at less then 360hp... That cost me ~4500.00 in parts not including down time

With new pwtc of ~.0015" and only 162,000 on the truck it wouldn't take much flex to catch a piston..

 

[rgullett83]

Nothing to my own but I did enhance the exhaust and ecm on another LML today..

 

[Big Block 88]

I see, i know on my sbc my builder always did a tq plate hone.

 

[OregonDMAX]

I don't like the idea of studying it without have it torque plate honed especially with the loads I put on it for sustained periods of time. I remember being told back in 08 that the studs can flex the walls enough to bind the piston up on a block that hasn't been tq plate honed with studs.
I'm short I don't want to speed 600 for studs, then X miles later rip a piston and be force to buy stuff at a I need it now price..

I split a piston due to sustained high oil temps at less then 360hp... That cost me ~4500.00 in parts not including down time

With new pwtc of ~.0015" and only 162,000 on the truck it wouldn't take much flex to catch a piston..

With your horrible luck or whatever you wanna call it why do you still have a dmax, you need yo step up to medium duty platform

 

[malibu795]

With your horrible luck or whatever you wanna call it why do you still have a dmax, you need yo step up to medium duty platform

70,000 miles since buying it, first serious mechanical issue on the truck.. ~600 in parts and long weekend I will be rolling Monday..
I still have no love for VVT turbos...

As for medium 4/5 trucks they are too heavy empty for what I'm targeting I'd lose profit due to increase overhead

 

[malibu795]

I dislike cab forward designs and emissions... Half to pull half the top end crap just to get a chain on it