4L80E, front hubs and srw conversion

[dazedandconfused]

Got any videos of that dyno run?

[bubba]

No sure don't. Shortly thereafter the block split nearly in two. I used to have the print out. I might be able to find it somewhere...

[turboram]

Thats fine if you want to use a 4l80 but if you cummins has any power it will be on the governor all the time because there isn't a converter that will hold it down for the 80... and a 350 hp cummins can make 800 ft ilb and a 500hp can make well over 1000

[bubba]

Well right now its fairly stock and I don't know if it will ever even make 500 hp, but if a company is willing to guarantee a transmission to 1850 hp, thats at least a 1000 ft lbs any way you look at it. Which is really all that matters, torque I mean. And if they can make it stand up, somebody will make a converter to harness it. If somebody will make a 47 converter to harness it, somebody will make a converter for a 4L80. And I'm not trying to argue with anybody. I was just wondering if anybody had done it or heard of it and knew what might be involved.

[ellis93]

Read it again. It was a twin turbo 6.5 that dyno'd over 500 hp at the wheels. A little north of 800 ft lbs. So your orange does taste like liver if you try and put it that way.

Yep missed that,just focused on the whole 6.5 thing. You must have dumped some serious coin in that motor for that much power cause I've never seen over 350HP being boasted from one.

[ellis93]

No sure don't. Shortly thereafter the block split nearly in two. I used to have the print out. I might be able to find it somewhere...

I'd have had that framed!

[bubba]

More than I want to think about thats for sure. It definitely wasn't something that I wanted to drive everyday. Lag like a SOB. Real peaky power band. I had to use the laughing gas to get it off the line but once rolling it would go. Until it went boom. And I was proud of it until it blew up. Then not so much hahaha

[PToombs]

I'd still be proud of it.
"Yeah, I had a 6.5, it had so much power it split the block in 2 on the dyno!"

[bubba]

It just wasn't impressive. I put twice as much in it as my buddies did in their cummins', duraslacks', and powerjokes' and I still was the slowest (modified) one.