Mulboost
Transmission Builder
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- Feb 3, 2016
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Hello yall. I wanted to start a thread that covered our shop truck build. I'll start with a quick synopsis of the truck. It's a 07 5.9 QQSB 48RE, we use it for our Diesel Shop here in Delaware and it does a pretty good job. The fastest we have had it is 10.94 @ 124. It's a total sleeper, there are no visible gagues and the exhaust appears stock. Estimated horsepower is in the ~900 RWHP area. Anyhow, a number of months back it was decided to take the truck to the next level and to ditch the 80% over injectors, single 10.6mm pump and 68mm Fleece charger.
An ats duel fueler setup, Exergy 150% over 143*injectors and a Fleece 71/87/.90AR charger were ordered. We also installed a Suncoast/PCS E-618 VB to try and work around the restricted oe shift strategies.
Initial test drive was good, although on some WOT highway pulls, the converter began to slip and the fluid got hot. :hehe: anyhow, the truck was parked and when we pulled it into the shop the next morning, there was also a dead cylinder miss. :umno:
Upon initial inspection, compression was down 100 psi on cylinder number 2. I wasn't even worried about the converter at this point. Upon further inspection when we removed the cylinder head, there was a big chunk of piston missin'!
This was no deterrent, I decided it was time to start a new chapter in torque's book. (that's the trucks name - torque) The end goal is a 1000-1200 hp -nasty, fast spooling street machine. Here are some pictures from the tear down and build up process. I wanted to share this build with you guys because it's going to be a really good one with a lot of attention to detail.
Here is the melted piston on #2
Here is the engine before disassembly
Extraction
The cylinder wall surprisingly cleaned up nicely with a little muriatic acid soak and quick ball hone job, but it was decided to drop the engine off at Miller's Machine Shop for a pressure hone, walnut blast, new freezeplugs throughout, and hot tank. We are also replacing the cylinder head with a good used CR head, they are performing a mild port job, o-rings, tapping the freeze plugs and of course a deck resurface.
So moving forward, the color scheme will be all silver and black. I received some parts back from ceramic and powdercoating. Here comes the real candy.
ARP Extreme Strength Hardware on the OD housing of our in house built Stage III.5 48RE
Powdered Case
Powdered and Ceramic Transmission and engine bits. (yes thats a valve body tester in the background) I build and test all of our valve bodies in house - with the exception of PCS setups.
Some of you may know this truck, it was featured in the January issue of Diesel Power.
Here is a better shot of the truck
Underneath
This is where the magic happens! Muldoon's Diesel Performance HQ!
So moving forward, we are going to implement a way to manually control this transmission, on calibration A of the PCS setup. Calibration B will be full automatic mode. I'm keeping the manual control behind the scenes, but I can promise you it will be worth watching. To the best of my knowledge we will be the first to implement peripherals to control a 47/48/ tf platform in this manner.
Originally we were going to use a Precision Industries 28 spline input shaft for this build, but upon further research we found we want something stronger. So a TCS 27 Spline is ready for install, accompanied with a stock stall quad disc DPC converter. We us no one else for converters, Phil builds a great one. As far as the trans goes, it will be a Stage III.5 48RE with aforementioned TCS AZ 27 Spline input, TCS CAD 300M Intermediate and TCS CAD 23 spline billet output.
The engine will receive a set of plain jane Mahle pistons, Carrillo rods, either a fleece powerflo750 or exergy 10.0mm bottom pump, stock duramax top pump and a bunch of other goodes. The engine will be built in house as well as the transmission.
So stay tuned, because we will be updating this thread with high res images and videos of the build!
An ats duel fueler setup, Exergy 150% over 143*injectors and a Fleece 71/87/.90AR charger were ordered. We also installed a Suncoast/PCS E-618 VB to try and work around the restricted oe shift strategies.
Initial test drive was good, although on some WOT highway pulls, the converter began to slip and the fluid got hot. :hehe: anyhow, the truck was parked and when we pulled it into the shop the next morning, there was also a dead cylinder miss. :umno:
Upon initial inspection, compression was down 100 psi on cylinder number 2. I wasn't even worried about the converter at this point. Upon further inspection when we removed the cylinder head, there was a big chunk of piston missin'!
This was no deterrent, I decided it was time to start a new chapter in torque's book. (that's the trucks name - torque) The end goal is a 1000-1200 hp -nasty, fast spooling street machine. Here are some pictures from the tear down and build up process. I wanted to share this build with you guys because it's going to be a really good one with a lot of attention to detail.
Here is the melted piston on #2
Here is the engine before disassembly
Extraction
The cylinder wall surprisingly cleaned up nicely with a little muriatic acid soak and quick ball hone job, but it was decided to drop the engine off at Miller's Machine Shop for a pressure hone, walnut blast, new freezeplugs throughout, and hot tank. We are also replacing the cylinder head with a good used CR head, they are performing a mild port job, o-rings, tapping the freeze plugs and of course a deck resurface.
So moving forward, the color scheme will be all silver and black. I received some parts back from ceramic and powdercoating. Here comes the real candy.
ARP Extreme Strength Hardware on the OD housing of our in house built Stage III.5 48RE
Powdered Case
Powdered and Ceramic Transmission and engine bits. (yes thats a valve body tester in the background) I build and test all of our valve bodies in house - with the exception of PCS setups.
Some of you may know this truck, it was featured in the January issue of Diesel Power.
Here is a better shot of the truck
Underneath
This is where the magic happens! Muldoon's Diesel Performance HQ!
So moving forward, we are going to implement a way to manually control this transmission, on calibration A of the PCS setup. Calibration B will be full automatic mode. I'm keeping the manual control behind the scenes, but I can promise you it will be worth watching. To the best of my knowledge we will be the first to implement peripherals to control a 47/48/ tf platform in this manner.
Originally we were going to use a Precision Industries 28 spline input shaft for this build, but upon further research we found we want something stronger. So a TCS 27 Spline is ready for install, accompanied with a stock stall quad disc DPC converter. We us no one else for converters, Phil builds a great one. As far as the trans goes, it will be a Stage III.5 48RE with aforementioned TCS AZ 27 Spline input, TCS CAD 300M Intermediate and TCS CAD 23 spline billet output.
The engine will receive a set of plain jane Mahle pistons, Carrillo rods, either a fleece powerflo750 or exergy 10.0mm bottom pump, stock duramax top pump and a bunch of other goodes. The engine will be built in house as well as the transmission.
So stay tuned, because we will be updating this thread with high res images and videos of the build!
