How to Install a BD Diesel EZ Amp and Increase Horsepower Part 3/3

Install a BD Diesel EZ Amp & Increase Horsepower - Part 3/3 Dave Bowman: That’s pretty impressive! You haven’t fallen aren’t you? Sam Memmolo: Men, that’s impressive as can be. Dave Bowman: Hey, welcome back Two Guys Garage. Well Sam and I got the truck on the dyno. We already made the run to get a base run in stock form. Now, we’ve made a run with our chip up and running and its pretty impressive, ain’t it? Sam Memmolo: It sure is and I tell you what, right on the money too, I programmed this for 60 horsepower. Now, we put in the easy amp performanship. Remember I told you, you can program it from inside the cab. It’s real simple. You follow the instructions. All you have to do is turn the key on with the engine off, select drive 3201 which ever position you want. You mash the throttle three times, full open. You cycle it, turn the key off and you got 30, 45, 60 or 90 horsepower. I selected 60 horsepower and the neat deal is the easy amp works with the engine and the transmission, controls the entire power train. So what happen is it's monitoring the transmission where it’s giving you engine power. If that transmission starts to slip a little bit, it will back the power down so you'll not going to hear anything. And they both has adaptor strategy. What happens is the more you drive this thing up to a point, it teaches the transmission exactly what's going on with the power, when to shift, what to do with line pressure. Have to about a couple tank fulls about seven or 800 milers. This transmission will really put the power to ground. Dave Bowman: Well now, speaking of power to the ground, that brings up another point. And that is anytime you modify an engine, you generate more horsepower and more torque. It’s going to put more load on your transmission. And it’s if weak, you’re going to know it. Now we got a tip for you and here’s what we’re talking about. This is for the Dodge guys out that have the Dodge diesels. We got a little problem with their torque conversion. Not bad but I mean, with that extra horsepower in there, they tend to slip a little bit more. Now BD power has fixed that and here’s what they’ve done. Here is your stock, the stator right here and you can see this is okay. It works alright for stock normal use but when you boost that power, what you need to do is make that torque converter a lot more efficient. As you can see right here, they got a lot wider space between the fins. The fins are angled a little bit differently and it’s a little bit wider than the stock stator. The reason for that is it let’s more fluid to come through there. It works more efficiently. Sam Memmolo: Sure, the stators what pictures the fluid against your driven member okay and this is really what drops the temperature in that torque converter. Get too much slush in the converter, heats up the fluid, kills your transmission. Dave Bowman: Now, speaking with temperature, take a look at this. This is our piston and you can see the clutch material around here, a single ring on here. Now if you look in here, you can see there are hot spots here in the front cover that’s because it’s slipping. Well here’s what BD has done to cure that problem. Sam Memmolo: Right, that just stock torque converter clutch. This is BD’s torque converter clutch, much wider material here, a second ring, so you got double clutch. I think it about 190% more clutch material than the stock torque converter and look at this neat front cover. Dave Bowman: Boy that’s nice, it is a machine front cover. It’s a heavy duty high performance unit. So what this will do, in essence it makes the torque converter much more efficient allowing you to get the horsepower and the torque from the torque converter into the transmission. Now that’s another subject, come on I’ll show you what that’s all about. Now we got a high performance torque converter. You need a high performance transmission to go along with it. Sam Memmolo: That’s right. BD power has got a complete remanufactured transmission really set up for that Dodge diesel. Dave Bowman: Now, what they’ve done is they modified the transmission. They got a high volume oil pump here. They also have added about 25% more clutch material to the clutch packs here and of course back here. Sam Memmolo: They’ve also taken care of the planetary. They got rid of the aluminum planetary. It’s all steel. It got a special valve body that locks up second gear, brings the line pressure up. And of course right here, we’ve got the pressure lock and what this does, it keeps the line pressure up under exhaust break application to keep your clutch engaged. Dave Bowman: So, the net result now is you got the complete package, a high performance torque converter, high performance transmission to work with the entire engine mod you’ve made to the engine. So this is to what you have to do. Sam Memmolo: That’s right; this takes care of the weak link in your common powered Dodge.