powerstroked08
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No way! Wow thats scary really. Makes you wonder how many trucks have bad rockers and dont know it.
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webb06
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Exactly. Any truck that has a lot of regen cycles throughout its life along with a horrible maintenance record is bound to have bad rockers. They go bad from the diesel diluting the oil
powerstroked08
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Yeah thats why I tuned my truck initially........sort ofLOL! Well thats what I told the woman! Those regens are just about the worst thing to happen to these poor engines really.
webb06
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Exactly
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powerstroked08
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Chop Chop!
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HA! Yeah I know. Whoa! Hang on is this coming from the guy who has been doing a build since June of 2012! LOL
powerstroked08
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Well I just opened my email, and it seems that the UPS man is going to be stopping by with the rest of my parts thursday! Needless to say I'm slightly excited!ostwhore2:
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powerstroked08
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Ok so heres a little update. I finally recieved the rest of my parts this past saturday. So I started to tear it down around 5 pm on saturday. Here are some of the pictures I took.
So now the trucks together and I'm palying with some of the tuning. Right now the highest boost I've seen was 38 pounds. Now I understand that boost is a measurement of restriction. But I cant imagine that I removed enough restriction to drop 10-12 pounds of boost. But who knows:shrug:. Anyhow the truck sounds mean as hell and is fun to drive. But I hope to get it dialed in here in the next week or so!
So now the trucks together and I'm palying with some of the tuning. Right now the highest boost I've seen was 38 pounds. Now I understand that boost is a measurement of restriction. But I cant imagine that I removed enough restriction to drop 10-12 pounds of boost. But who knows:shrug:. Anyhow the truck sounds mean as hell and is fun to drive. But I hope to get it dialed in here in the next week or so!
madman1234509
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With having to dig what do you have for fuel, what tune, and do you have a waste gate?
powerstroked08
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I'm on bone stock fuel, HD300 tune(I have been playing with duty cycle and desired backpressure), and Yes I do have a gate. The gate is routed to the downpipe and I have done some tuning with it as well.
webb06
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I'm only making around 42 with my tow x's. I've been told mine is low too
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turn the gate all the way open , then start closing accordingly until you get spool and boost/bp to your liking. just takes a bit of time. once you go full open, id give a full turn and a half closed just to save you some time in the process. sounds like the gate is opening way early. i assume your BP is staying low and spool is suffering.
powerstroked08
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Well maybe we have similay problems. I have been watching your build to see what to expect. And now the low boost is one of those thingsLOL
Yeah I started at full open and did 1 1/2 turns to start off. I saw it in another thread and I think you or mike haller said to start there but I cant remember. Anyhow my bp was 55-60 and I closed it some more and I can get 65-70 now but still only 37-38 pounds of boost:shrug:. Just my luck LOL
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did you call elite ? yeah i'd assume you should be in the 50 range. give or take a few each way.
powerstroked08
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Yeah I did Tadd sent me another tune to try. I think he did some duty cycle changes. I Hope to get the boost to 50! I would be pretty stoked then! And for some reason its kinda smokey? I dont get that. And the egt's are up as well. I'm kinda at a loss as to where to go next ya know. But at least its running
webb06
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Yeah I did Tadd sent me another tune to try. I think he did some duty cycle changes. I Hope to get the boost to 50! I would be pretty stoked then! And for some reason its kinda smokey? I dont get that. And the egt's are up as well. I'm kinda at a loss as to where to go next ya know. But at least its running
What kind of tunes is tadd sending you?
powerstroked08
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I haven't tried or opened it yet. But I do believe ho just changed the max/min dity cycle.
webb06
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Is that via mcc? Maybe I should call him and see if he knows what Matt should do with my tuning
powerstroked08
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Yeah. I played with some of my own stuff and I think I might have done some similar stuff, but like I said I haven't looked at the file yet. But its worth a call for sure!
madman1234509
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Obviously ifv youre smokey and egts are up with stock fuel youre having issues. Is your gate running from your up pipes to the downpipe, or from the up pipes to the inlet inbetween the chargers? Ive never been a big fan with larger turbo set ups of gating around the big charger and to the downpipe unless you have ridiculous fuel or nitrous. Youre on stock fuel, there shouldnt be a reason to avoid trying to push the big charger unless youre seeing ridiculous boost numbers, or ridiculous bp number which i would suspect the small charger would be the culprit. You dont see people gating around a stock atmo. Both of you are having boost problems. Id be gating from the up pipes and pushing the big turbo, esp with stock fuel, there is no reason to waste all of that energy. The precision turbo should be able to handle the speed stock fuel would spin it
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