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Message: [QUOTE="TyCorr, post: 1360349, member: 1451"] Two summers ago. I helped the village i live in with a watermain break. I had just took the engine out of my truck, cleaned off the rust, inspected it for wear internally, fixed all the oil leaks, and tossed the motor back in. I had to run stock injectors because the srp puked its guts into my 175/80s. I put 225k mile stockers in. It had a fuel system, an srp 1.1 (before that one blew up), and a 38r. I only had one chip at the time and it had php tunes for the 175s. I had to tow a pulverizer, a bucket, and a small tractor (42hp john deere). The trailer loaded had to be 18k lbs. I found a single pos chip with a 40hp php tow tune in my toolbox. Stuck it in just for the trans tuning which was a twisted stg2. From La Moille to arlington its 7 miles and its all uphill. Gradual with sections of 6% grade. I took off and floorboarded once out of town. It was still kinda quirky with air and oil in the exhaust. It had grey haze for a mile up the hill. You could hear it running better and better as the hpo ckeaned up. By mile two it was running 60mph flat to the floor at 900 degrees. I even sent Jake(lincolnlocker) pictures as we were trying to figure out why my egts were hot. Apparently it was so and so's stock tuning files (not php). I had locked out od as the truck is on 35s and wants to run fast. This truck has akways been a freak though. My 03 was a 7.3 and with similar tuning it never could perform as well as the 00 did stock. The 99 and 00 trucks seem to have been the pinnacle of build quality. I think with normal size tires and wheels i could do anything i needed to with a stock rig. You figure a new truck is only making the same rwhp as a tuned, healthy 7.3. Maybe not the 15+ superduty but all the others, yes. My stock 14 duramax didnt offer anything under 40 mph that the 7.3 couldnt do. At higher speeds the extra gears and double overdrive make operation more pleasant but those trucks still were grabbing gears to pass and such on high speed trips so its not all that different. But you are correct, my hills still dont equal elevation so there us that. But a smaller turbo like the 38r would help, not hurt in that scenario. [/QUOTE]