Rocket Man's 02 Denali Build Thread AKA "THE BEAST"

[Rocket Man]

Your truck is looking right Red. It's a combination of the 26's, torque management and lack of a stall. Gearing would definitely help since you probably have a pretty tall tire. Has Justin sent u a tune update for the cam? Mine has a noticeable lope to it.

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He did send me a new tune for the cam awhile back and actually had me install it while I still had the stock cam in. He said with my cam profile it wouldn't hurt. (He had to change my AFR before I installed the cam since it was too low and he'd already written the cam tune so he rewrote it with a higher AFR and had me install it.) Torque management has been removed I believe. Do you have the Vinci Trucker cam?

 

[bottomline2000]

He did send me a new tune for the cam awhile back and actually had me install it while I still had the stock cam in. He said with my cam profile it wouldn't hurt. (He had to change my AFR before I installed the cam since it was too low and he'd already written the cam tune so he rewrote it with a higher AFR and had me install it.) Torque management has been removed I believe. Do you have the Vinci Trucker cam?

Yeah I have the trucker cam. I just wired in a wideband and can data log with it too so I can see what my af is actually doing. I think the stall definitely helped since the power band started around 1900rpm. I'm sure if you pulley down on the blower it would move out on 9-10psi but u have to think about the trans. I would think we'll over 600hp..

This tasteful H2 running a tvs at 10psi is at 700whp..15psi is gonna need a forged bottom end, fuel and a trans to handle it.

To run 15 psi and melt tires with awd consider this setup..

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[Rocket Man]

I think I'll put money into a 4l80e instead of buying a torque converter for my 4l65e. Then I can do a conversion if or when mine goes out.

 

[Rocket Man]

Today I got the new and improved front manual door lock bezels. It's the little things sometimes that make me happy. It always bugged me that they would constantly pop off and look like crap, it made it look like my door panels were falling apart. Not sure what year they incorporated these into the trucks but they sure work better. If you look at the 2 different parts next to each other you'll see they made one of the prongs longer so it would hook behind the panel and then the other ones snap in. It works way better. The old ones were even curved in where the clip was, making it worthless.

 

[95escahoe]

Today I got the new and improved front manual door lock bezels. It's the little things sometimes that make me happy. It always bugged me that they would constantly pop off and look like crap, it made it look like my door panels were falling apart. Not sure what year they incorporated these into the trucks but they sure work better. If you look at the 2 different parts next to each other you'll see they made one of the prongs longer so it would hook behind the panel and then the other ones snap in. It works way better. The old ones were even curved in where the clip was, making it worthless.

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Any certain years that had these issues?


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[Rocket Man]

Any certain years that had these issues?


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Looks like 99-2002 according to the TSB. You can search all of the ones for your vehicle here:
http://www.revbase.com/bbbmotor

 

[Rocket Man]

I think I'll put money into a 4l80e instead of buying a torque converter for my 4l65e. Then I can do a conversion if or when mine goes out.

OK maybe not. I have the NVG149 tcase and there's an issue with the input shaft fitting the 4l80. There was a member on performancetrucks.net that made an adapter but it looks like he only does it if you send your case to him now and it's like $650 plus shipping plus 4 weeks. Once again I'm considering one of the built 4l65e's that supposedly will take 650 hp. @sumo bought one for his blown Tahoe. I'd like something that just bolts in and will take the power since this is my DD.
Edit: further research has led me to this place https://transmissioncenter.net/shop/4l60e-to-4l80e-conversion-kit-tahoe-hummer-2-pickup-others/ that sells a conversion kit for my truck to mount up an 80e to my tcase , engine and ecm for $1264 and I'd still need the transmission. And a built 80e is another $3000 -up.

 

[about20ninj45]

OK maybe not. I have the NV249 tcase and there's an issue with the input shaft fitting the 4l80. There was a member on performancetrucks.net that made an adapter but it looks like he only does it if you send your case to him now and it's like $650 plus shipping plus 4 weeks. Once again I'm considering one of the built 4l65e's that supposedly will take 650 hp. @sumo bought one for his blown Tahoe. I'd like something that just bolts in and will take the power since this is my DD.
Edit: further research has led me to this place https://transmissioncenter.net/shop/4l60e-to-4l80e-conversion-kit-tahoe-hummer-2-pickup-others/ that sells a conversion kit for my truck to mount up an 80e to my tcase , engine and ecm for $1264 and I'd still need the transmission. And a built 80e is another $3000 -up.

Nv249?

 

[Rocket Man]

Nv249?

Oops, I meant NVG149. Not sure where NV249 came from. Too many damn numbers floating around in my brain.

 

[bottomline2000]

OK maybe not. I have the NV249 tcase and there's an issue with the input shaft fitting the 4l80. There was a member on performancetrucks.net that made an adapter but it looks like he only does it if you send your case to him now and it's like $650 plus shipping plus 4 weeks. Once again I'm considering one of the built 4l65e's that supposedly will take 650 hp. @sumo bought one for his blown Tahoe. I'd like something that just bolts in and will take the power since this is my DD.
Edit: further research has led me to this place https://transmissioncenter.net/shop/4l60e-to-4l80e-conversion-kit-tahoe-hummer-2-pickup-others/ that sells a conversion kit for my truck to mount up an 80e to my tcase , engine and ecm for $1264 and I'd still need the transmission. And a built 80e is another $3000 -up.

Shift kit 4l80> built 4l65 but I understand the dilemma. I have 3 of the 4 parts they mention.

-Harness-speartech $175
-Crossmember- $150 pt.net member made part
-Spacer-not needed if your converter specd for 4l60 plate..
-blackbear can segment swap your computer- free

So that output shaft cost how much?!

They still don't address the driveshaft issues. I'm not completely familiar with the awd swap..just thinking it thru.



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