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There isn't alot out there anymore for obd1 tuning last I checked. Moates has discontinued most of there obd1 products, so unless you find somebody with the equipment and chip blanks, there isn't alot left. You can go to the newer engine, put a carb intake on it, adapt that to your TBI, and then...

I would keep the 454, or freshen it up, and put the money you would have put into the swap into fuel. A diesel swap can get real expensive, REAL QUICK! Your 94 454 should actually be the better tbi engine, not a vortec, but it had the better of the peanut port heads, higher compression, better...

On it's own it won't come out of 4th gear until about 30-35 mph depending on which gears you have. I also agree it sounds like a transfer case issue.

That's not that much, you should see how loose the Cloyes single roller performance chain sets are on these engines, not to mention how noisy they are. The thing with this style chain is they stretch a certain amount and that tends to be it. So long as you don't run thick oil in them they're...

The chinese knock off tech 2's are well documented as shutting off whenever voltage drops below 12 volts to them. It has to do with the internal voltage regulator. It's the price you pay to get a tech 2 for under $2500. You can use an external power supply to power the tech 2, just make sure and...

Looks about like my redhead that ate itself taking out my hydro-boost and 2 pumps(didn't get all the metal out after the initial failure causing the spool valve to stick and blowing pump #2 apart). I replaced mine with a junkyard box I re-sealed a year ago.

Pretty much any 94+ 4l80e will work. Keep in mind most 95+ use a shift cable to shift them, so you would probably want the earlier style shift shaft for a mechanical shift linkage. For an 83 350, I would use the dual stator torque converter like was used on 91-95 4l80e's that had TBI fuel...

Your torque converter cannot lock up in 1st unless there is a SERIOUS problem inside the transmission. GM learned after the 700r4 to make it so fluid pressure is not available to the tcc circuit in 1st gear. So unless you've completely lost say your stator bushing, I just don't see how your...

The tires on the Burb still had decent tread left(the front ones anyways), but they were approaching 9 years old, so I decided it was time to get some new shoes as I'm starting to drive the Burb more. I still don't drive it alot and I was tired of getting stuck in wet grass with my old Cooper...

Your speedo was operated off of a 4k pulse per mile 5 volt square wave signal from your 97 black box PCM. Some trans controllers can provide a suitable output to run the speedo, but most go and get a vssb off of a 93-95 truck and install that to provide the signal for your speedo as well as the...

The gear endors unit was originally setup to shift in at 45 and out at 25 in auto mode as they were meant to be used behind 3 speed non OD autos. That is hard set into the box and not adjustable. You must have the trans controller using the speed sensor in the output of the trans so it knows the...

Once you're at those power levels it's anybodys guess with ANY of them. Cranks can and have broke just sitting idling, or they run long hard lives being beaten mercilessly day in and day out. Once you get into built engine territory, all the rules go out the window.

I've had good luck in the past with Mellings. They used to be the OEM for GM, but I heard about 5 years ago they went overseas, and there quality has dropped way off.

91-93 4l80e is slightly different from 94+ electrically, and 95-96 more changes, and then 97+ saw some more. I generally tell people to consider 91-93 to be a different trans from 94+ because of the valve body differences. If the 91 is 6 lug, it will have a 4l60/700r4 in it, if it is 8 lug it...

No, you do not need a body lift. I know my pics are gone, but I posted in my build thread here, back in 09, how I fit the Allison with a Duramax into my 95 Suburban with no body lift. I REALLY wished people would stop spreading this misinfo about needing a body lift to fit the Allison in a...