Testing The Transbrake For The First Time! (LSXcalade 4L80e)
Video by Stapleton42
Stapleton42
What happens here
This project involves the performance testing of a heavily modified Cadillac Escalade, using a Draggy device and laptop diagnostics to monitor its behavior during launch control. The process leads to a transmission failure, prompting a roadside diagnosis and subsequent plans for a rebuild and turbocharger upgrade to push the vehicle towards achieving 8-second quarter-mile times.
Transcript
(10,049 characters)Hide
Transcript
(10,049 characters)got the draggy that's a dragon alright walk through here let's go get this thing warmed up let's see what it'll do the golden hours right here trying to get this in before the Sun Goes Down so payday oh I got stool Don whatever yeah I was in there were you doing some stuff haven't put that bag together yet just chilling I'm real OCD I always make sure I started with the Cadillac logo out and I never slip off here because my dad's o8 suburban I used to drive he freaking like you know most cars they got scuff marks with people missing the keyhole I was always real conscious of that ever since day one with this thing which was I got it with 19,000 miles on it so this thing was like mint when I started driving it I ruined it I still haven't made any gauges yet working on that now so I gotta fire up the old laptop and see what's going on title if you can see that that 4k - right there it's red I got that that's configured for the bump button here side make sure works and so I touched that I'm gonna test that out to hear in a sack this is bump that's brand quick the draggy [Music] oh you know just you know you're packed awfully light for going to Mexico just wear the same always relateable so you know it's about what like a ten twelve hour drive to Mexico from here all right yeah well we're gonna burn it fast forward about 12 hours here until till we get there and we'll fire this thing back I want to get it up on it now and then just see what it does and I'm gonna test the pump and then I'm gonna shut it off for a couple minutes and then we'll reconfigure it if it doesn't do enough so give it like a second to cool off [Music] operating well you think tater I hope I don't mean Elaine yeah I think we'll be fine I haven't done that since I made the new class I was running now it pops right into my face the mega shifter ready ready we're Tuesday right there turn it up anymore but if Li need more boots turn it up [Music] I think we should turn it up a lot what do you though the the hard limit is 3,800 and the soft limit is 600 below that so that means a soft limit when it starts to spit and then 38 is the hotness with highest it'll go so the best 38 I'm gonna try like yeah I'm gonna be 45 40 I like the party will do compromise where anymore [Music] did you see this mile an hour jump up at all I wasn't looking don't know why sometimes it reads like I'm moving but I'm not it's like see the vehicle speeds freakin screwing it up there's like resistance in the wire so my it's disabled above a certain VSS so the you don't accidentally hit this button while while you're moving but it thinks we're moving for some reason and I don't know why so I'm turning it back down only a couple hundred you know what wouldn't do that Holly all righty you want to rewire for me that's a hard pass yeah we do their plug-and-play them [Music] anyway to be straight for it yeah we'll do that [Music] that was like system just put this into perspective here when it quit 9:50 that was like a pound and a half out of the hole and then it ramps in really really fast yeah we'll do that we're in a Mexico right now oh wow [Music] back Larry I'm out got ran over got a brand the so what happened that's all so that the resistance or whatever it's in in the ESS signal made it's the transbrake wasn't holding so we're gonna do it again and I'm just gonna do it to build the vacuum assistance like put it a neutral give it a quick Rev and launch them that way which is how I have been launching come and go to the point because we want to get a real number on the dragon here no burnout or anything we're good no they break it [Music] we're gonna go down here meet them and see what happened there didn't look too convincing uh probably another for a lady down rip r.i.p we miss you Cobie it's a long drive Mexico is not closed Oklahoma Oh Mitchell has the camera now he'll explain what happened I guess well I don't really know what happened when we tried to load it up and it just wasn't doing anything but drove back here it seemed to be fine like the converter locked up and everything I don't know that did it do anything weird like from outside perspective that you saw that's what it felt like like it just didn't it wasn't even hanging on I mean we don't have any drive shafts dangling down or anything just didn't go anywhere yeah that's weird I mean we did load it up and do that a few times but it wasn't like we were sitting there baking it all right P well I will say if this transmission is toast it lived the noble life yeah and it whatever it could have had something to do with what the ECU was doing with the freaking trans brake how it was like letting it go while we were still like letting the 2-step go and having it come up I bet that that made built a hall he might have got too hot I don't know this we'll find out but that's that's why I wanted to do this now because with all of this virus baloney we got all kinds of time to fix it so if I gotta yank this thing and send it back to Xtreme then you know it doesn't matter so we've got time well you got some good footage I'll start right over yeah I wish we didn't we forgot a real number but at least we got both just sucks we got to drive all the way back home for homeland oh yeah did we drove 12 hours out here just just for this and I mean you see we didn't bring a trailer like we're gonna have to drive 12 hours back with a frickin blown up transmission I don't know what we're gonna do here god it sucks I think maybe we could switch off and it's cannonball the whole thing I don't know do that every 85 in Mexico City I mean that that that path tank got us the whole way here so maybe the rest of the half will get us all the way back I don't know I yeah oh no way well you're their regular 127 mean it's thing it's flex you'll is it is that one of those mirages since we're in the middle of the desert Mexico yes this is this is the Mirage this isn't real that is fake that's not that's not on cue a CGI that was a closed course on my PC Xbox in Mexico next - yo mama's house all right let's see if we can make it back 12 hour drive here we go moment of proof we let go into first gear cool we got a little Pudge here second gear feel pretty firm well I'll roll into it after we get back across the border and you know into Texas we can I don't want to have a run-in with the federales don't try this at home kids on 65 third 12 hours later we're back now we're gonna roll into and see Miss links again ready that you know I don't think it was slipping down it wasn't either that's kind of fun I think I want to do it again we're on Mexico anymore so it's the close course in my backyard it ain't happy about something as reserved if this thing hasn't tapped out yet [Music] normally transmissions don't like they don't just come and go like that like once they slip you know it's just you're done game over but this one's just like you know carrying a freaking box of grandmas trying out down an icy sidewalk I slept a little bit but uh you ain't dropping that box charges yet you know hopefully the hospitals aren't too overloaded with corona patients right now because we're in critical condition right now we're coming in it's coming out regardless whether it's whether I Drive it on the rack or not certified technician here once you pull dipstick and give me your expert analysis smells a little warm feels a little stinky wasn't funny let go out it's in park it looks normal and this is also bnm trick shift it's like blue and doesn't show up very well on the dipstick it's to clarify triple7 is our buddy john the duke is actually Shelby killer performance Shelby killer before but around these parts we support our friends yeah I mean mine still runs and you know what I'd put money on it still being faster than that one it only slips if we you know let it eat yeah I'll just give him like half pedal was just a tow 90 from the B where do you think that car is built that's pretty crazy yes I mean we were just in Mexico like 20 minutes ago so 12 hours 12 hours ago yeah yep we got all kinds time to fix it fix it make it better and I got new turbos Ozona Rover these things are pant billet stainless Center section with a built in filter so if you chunk your motor doesn't junk the turbo but my favorite part is the center section because I hate with my Precision's now they got like a cast iron they get surface rust on them and they look like crap after a while nope them's our Nass these are actually 76 69 because tile is a part of zone order to its of conglomeration force performance and tile they use this different wheel design that flows just as much as a comparable larger turbine wheel so it can make the same amount of power with smaller wheel obligatory turbo fingering Oh rat if this transmission is toast that'll be number six that is dead in the history of this thing but transmission number six if it is dead it's a critical condition we'll have made more poles more passes more Street miles at several hundred horsepower higher than any of the previous rosters had and it lived its whole life above the power level of any Rossler that held anything and it made more passes than the previous five combined so that that's pretty impressive I think I can't wait to get in there and see what the deal is how we can make it better move forward so I can add even more power and get this Escalade into the ACE which is the main goal here full weight full interior well I think that was pretty successful if better hit that subscribe button I just blew my up for your entertainment so do me a solid do yourself a solid will do my best to entertain you guys moving forward and put this thing to the eights where it's supposed to be we're really not that far away and that transmission is taking a beating and I'd rather get it refresh now all good to go make some improvements before the season starts so when I get out there I need to be making rounds it's good to go it's on a fresh unit and there's nothing to worry about so let's go
Auto-generated from the video audio.