Nice, strong Stool!

 

Are you sure you want to keep her all to yourself? I mean, that's a lot to go around..LOL!!!

 

Bill, I'm going to drive that Ford test mountain one of these years just to meet that sweetie of a wife of yours.

By the way, did you put in a extra leaf in the rear and front passenger side? If she doesn't go with you then people will think you are the fatty,

 

Is this where the term "less is more" comes from!?

 

People, you've got to quit copying and pasting that picture onto the next page or it will be another thread I have to permanently avoid..

 

lol So loading the page all I see at the top is the first post, "Strong stool." First thought was "wow have we degraded to talking about crap in this section?!"

Having not been up to date on this thread about Bill's wife I made the mistake of scrolling down. LOL

caught up on this thread and pretty much LOL is all I can say.

 

Ok, got my gauges installed. Now my boost gauge is jittery. No boost till I get on it? then when it hits about 10psi, it starts fluttering. have not seen boost above 15psi, but I'm not really pushing it hard either. Does this prove the fact that my turbo doesn't like those injectors? Or is it just the norm?

 

And boy! having a EGT gauge sure affects how you push on that right pedal! Whats safe temp wise? I try not to let it get above 1200? it runs about 900 on flat road pulling my trailer. 1200 to 1250 is what happens pulling a hill.

 

Those are good numbers. I wouldn't push it much past that. Though some do. But only real short bursts.

 

If you have stage 1's and you're not seeing anything above 15 PSI boost, you've got some boost leaks somewhere. You should be pushing 20 PSI easy. For the jitters you either need to move the boost line to the spider pipe (I'm guessing you just tee'd it into the MAP line) or put a "snubber" in the line to regulate the pulsations down. Either way will work, but mine stopped fluttering when I drilled, tapped and installed the line into the outlet T of the turbo. The MAP line only reads the pressure on one bank so the intake pulses aren't smoothed out as much.

And yes, no more than 1200* EGT for very long or you're flirting with disaster.

 

I pushed mine to 1300, even 1350 for a few very short bursts of power when towing, but I have a TON of towing experience and I am comfortable with that. When I say short bursts, I mean like 5-8 seconds. The general rule is to keep is below 1300 if you can if pulling a grade or headwind for a long period.

 

Aluminum melts at 1250*. Your pistons are aluminum. Don't keep it at or above 1250* for too terribly long. I think the longest I've probably ever stayed above 1200* was around 10 seconds or so and it was fine.

 

My .02$, way back when I had my 1st CC PSD I was pretty oblivious to exhaust gas temps, I had a 3", strait exhaust and a superchips 1705 set to the highest setting. Often I'd run up 95 NY to Maine with the speedo buried for miles at a time which required a heavy foot... In hindsight that musta been makin a CONSIDERABLE amount of heat unless that 1705 was very mildly fueling....
My new truck has the probe in the DP which I may change, so you figure 300-400 degree difference (at least that's what I've read) and I've seen 900-1000 on there for 10-12 seconds but who knows what its really at not having the probe in the manifold.. I guess what I'm sayin is these have got to be pretty resilient engines to heat don't they? I'd love to hear/see some meltdown stories others have witnessed!?

 

I often want to tear down my engine just to take a look. I try to keep it under 1250° but there are times I let it go. Ten seconds is a long time though.

 

Yeah Glenn, I'm curious too. I haven't seen a thread yet on here (haven't been here obviously as long as you) that tells the tale of a smoked powerplant...