Competition Diesel racing, sleds, dynos, power tuning and max performance.

How much reliable power from a 6.0 powerstroke.

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
  #1  
Old 12-07-2008, 01:29 AM
purecountry's Avatar
purecountry
purecountry is offline
Senior User
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Deployed, Okinawa,Japan
Posts: 113
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
How much reliable power from a 6.0 powerstroke.

Im looking at a 2003 King Ranch with the 6.0 powerstroke in it, and wanna do some small town sled pulls, but keep it street legal and reliable. The truck has Magnaflow 4inch turbo back exhaust into 6 inch Grand Rock Stacks and the Bully dog triple dog downloader with outlook monitor and guages. Whats else can be done to make it a bigger threat at the pulls, but reliable enough to drive to work everyday? Thanks yall. Also whats the best pullin tire? Its lifted 6.5 inches right now, Id be slapping on traction bars, and new tires. Its got 37x12.5 swamper ssr's. Whats everyone pulling with?
 
  #2  
Old 12-21-2008, 08:49 AM
F350-6's Avatar
F350-6
F350-6 is offline
Post Fiend
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Texas
Posts: 26,966
Likes: 0
Received 24 Likes on 20 Posts
Ask the same question up in the 6.0 diesel section. Ditch the bully dog and look for better tunes. SCT is a popular one with the 6.0. Also invest in some head studs, since the bolts are a weak link on that motor.

Semper Fi.
 
  #3  
Old 12-21-2008, 08:05 PM
SC_Hauler's Avatar
SC_Hauler
SC_Hauler is offline
New User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 1
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I have the SCT on my 05 Excursion and run it on the race tune all the time unles I tow my car, I think 150 hp more. I've run it on the 1/4 a few times with no problem. I bought the truck new and have had the tuner on it since its had about 12k miles on it now have 87k on it. Only problem I had was pushing coolant out the bottle when towing due to a clogged egr cooler. The dealer cleaned that and all is well again.

I don't have a egt gauge so I don't know what those are when I dragged it. And don't know much about pulling like how long the pull lasts. My 1/4 times where 14.6 seconds long. My truck is completely stock except for the tuner.
 
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
unlucky2.1_7.3PSD
Excursion - King of SUVs
10
07-19-2016 02:14 PM
Red454sedgwick
Pre-Power Stroke Diesel (7.3L IDI & 6.9L)
62
12-02-2014 08:56 PM
Big-old-460
1987 - 1996 F150 & Larger F-Series Trucks
61
09-07-2010 09:49 PM
gdfrick122
1999 to 2016 Super Duty
11
10-04-2009 11:58 PM
dditto
6.0L Power Stroke Diesel
10
11-07-2008 07:57 AM



Quick Reply: How much reliable power from a 6.0 powerstroke.



All times are GMT -5. The time now is 05:27 PM.