LS6 Swap 2nd Gen Build + New Tundra

Two
Of those just for your trans?

 

yep, high stall converters make a lot of heat

 

It doesn’t get hot when I rip on the truck it’s pretty much just going up and down hills. I should probably still upgrade I suppose

 

First 150 miles are behind me, this is the oil. Doesn’t appear to be sparkly which is good. Drain plug magnet had stuff on it, which is normal I suppose. Brand spanking new engine, so I guess that’s pretty normal. The oil is pretty dirty though. This oil was high zinc break in specific oil.

edit forgot to mention I’m sending the sample off to Blackstone to see what’s up. I’m really paranoid of issues.

I replaced it with 10 qts of shell 15w40. Slightly overfilled this time, but rather have slightly too much than not enough.

My oil catch can, which pulls air from the valley plate, then returns it to the intake, was about half full after 150 miles. That was a little much, I’ll just have to keep an eye on it I guess. Is there any reason I shouldn’t just return that oil back to the pan with a hose?

 

Is it a catch can or AOS? I know for the Subaru world running AOS systems the oil just drains back in

 

I think those are the same thing. Catch can just doesn’t return it I’m assuming.

ah wait. If I did that, it would be pulling a vacuum from the top of the crank case and from the oil pan. Definitely can’t do that. Question answered lmfao.

 

Uhhhh

you’re 15800’s:

times 2 is 28000 BTU’s

my 15845:

37,000 BTU’s.

am I missing something? My cooler setup seems like it’s a whole third better than yours almost. Maybe we’re both screwed?

 

That makes sense, cuz a converter only really creates heat when its slipping, so when you're just driving normal it's not slipping. Going up hills it will be slipping a lot more and heat up.

yep might both be screwed lol. That's crazy the difference, seems like yours has way less surface area and half the fan area, but what do I know

 

I have no idea man. Btu might not even be the right spec to be looking at.

 

https://youtu.be/aQsAdmXDVBA

Welllllll, first rips on the truck. These videos don’t do it justice, average speed was probably 40-45 mph. Covered about 2 miles in the video.

officially broke the truck too…..


The driver side headlight is no more. Broke 2 of the 3 mounting tabs. Crazy how fragile that shit is. I don’t really know what to do to prevent that from happening or how to fix it without replacing the headlights.

 

Anyone have a good waterproof relay box for my bed setup? The Amazon setup stopped working and right now I just have a few relays sitting in the bed flying around.

 

truck sounds insane dude

 

It’s going back to the exhaust shop tomorrow, I’m getting another resonator put in. It drones so bad in the cab it’s nauseating. I’m also putting in an exhaust Valve, so I can make it even louder than it is right now. Should sound insane.

I really appreciate it man. Now only if I can get a center console to make this thing not feel like a pile of crap.

 

one thing to note is @WormSquirts fans flow as much cfm per fan as your both your 5" fans which will make a big difference.

 

Honestly i'm glad all this came up, learned lots about derale coolers. So mine are a tube & fin style. @Pittsy 's are a stacked plate style which is much more efficient. Basically, I cheaped out. But now I know.

So I'm going to run one of these coolers for engine oil, and I'll run the other one on my Tundra as a tranny cooler (I've been needing to do that badly anyway). I will order two more coolers for my trans. I've already cooked one stock trans, and this one will be run a lot harder, and I paid a lot for it so don't want to risk it.

Probably two of these at 46,000 btu each: https://derale.com/product-footer/f...ne-oil-cooler-kit-with-spin-on-adapter-detail

Or maybe save a couple hundred and just run one of these: https://derale.com/product-footer/f...rs/hyper-cool/hyper-cool-extreme/15870-detail

 

do you know if they replaced the o ring on the oil pickup? I did mine and added the lsx innovation brace they make since it only has a bolt on one side of the tube.
But normally mine floats around 40-45 at idle I think.

 

just ordered one of these. I’m gonna try an Amazon return my old one

cold start idle 65-70psi, warm idle 40-45psi.

I have a melling high pressure high volume pump.

my motor was doing the same thing yours was doing when it was blown up.

this.

My capacity it 10 qts filter and accusump and cooler included

 

What weight oil are you using?

 

I’m assuming. You’re talking to the other guy, but I have 15w40 in my truck.

 

Yeah. You answered just before my question. I figured yours was around that.