Recent content by Mr. Hipster

I don't think I'd stress about any 6.2 or 6.5 over whelming a correct 4L80E.

New building going up in Idaho, weather's been causing major delays resulting in staying west first time in the winter. Some cold conditions here I'll tell you, glad I got my outside wood fired boiler heating the house, nice a toasty. Finished the install just under the wire.

Got 10k miles on the old truck since the start of the saga, still runs fine. Did have some grief over the summer, sudden very hard start due to air in the fuel column, thought fuel gage might be lying. Made it down the hill to the regular fuel stop, loaded up both sides, wasn't that low to...

Getting ready to store the truck for the winter in Idaho. Greatly exceeded my expectations this summer. Hasn't used one drop of oil even tho it smokes like crazy on start up for a couple of minutes. Must admit I'm a bit of a convert now, got some power for not a lot of money. Of course I'm...

Might want to review post # 15. After 2000k highway miles @ 2500+ rpm, still dry down there and no oil consumption, engine is fine for my use. When it blows up, I'll build another.o_O

Uh,,,,,,,don't have any leaks.

In Idaho for a while now, truck is in it's element. Tach shows 2700 @ 70 w/4.10 gears, rolls right up the Lewiston grade @ 65, 7% for 6 miles, like the 3" full length exhaust, a great sound, can't believe the way the turbo/fresh pump/nozzles woke up a weak puppy engine. Pulls the boat no...

Then there's those pesky plug wires

Regarding the port match, Mark 4 Big Block Chevies have standard oval and rectangular intake ports, the HP ports being much larger. Read up on a discussion recently where, just for the heck of it, a HP intake was dyno flogged with standard heads. The effect would be a serious mismatch...

Don't forget about the injector return lines laying on the exhaust manifold curb side.

Had a pretty good back of oil pan/rear main type leak, changed the pan gasket as it was cork with rear rubber that didn't seem to get enough crush. The Felpro pan set was much nicer, let it all set up over nite with block heater on. Test beat Sunday it still marked it's place after word...

After the new paint.

Used a 88 cross over on the 82 GMC 4x4, not beautiful but functional.

Test beat today, after a couple of days of details, like some one switched the heater control cables once, lets just say I've gotten pretty good at dash board work through repetition. Got the tach interface coming from Dakota Digital, other than that every thing works in a way. Boost was only...

Finally getting close to running the truck down the road. Exhaust system for a 88 and up, used most of the parts other than a few L's for the turbo down pipe, trimmed the inner fender a little and had to do a quick hack job on the cross over pipe to clear the front shaft. Was a loggers truck...