Info on a 04

Hillshire

New member
Joined
Sep 29, 2011
Messages
45
Not sure if this is the right thread, but I'm not very familiar with GM.

Anyways a buddy of mine is going to get an 04 (not sure whether or not it's a 04.5 or an e04) duramax. Trucks stock right now but hes going to be doing some performance upgrades so he can pull his 5th wheel horse trailer, and of course toying around street racing. We're looking at the PPE Economy Xcelerator & the Standard Xcelerator.


Is he going to have to worry about his transmission with the hot settings with either of these programmers? I know that Allison is a great transmission, but can it hold the 220hp that the Standard Xcelerator can add, without having to worry about anything screwing up?
 
No, anything over 125hp is on borrowed time for an allison. Especially if he does any towing.
 
Towing you shouldn't exceed the 90hp setting or whatever is close to that. A 5speed allison can handle around the 160 tune (about 125 at the wheels as Glenn stated) for some time w/o a trailer or romping on it some.
 
So just playing around town y'all say keep it on 160 tune. Towing keep it 90 or under.

Thanks guys
 
Back
Top