turbo install
Go for it, either way you go it'll work fine.
If there is a bunch of black smoke or you are exceeding 1200 deg F EGT's under load, you turned it up too much.
Doing the timing might be a good thing to do too. Timing can affect how your turbo spools. Do you have access to a timing gun and ferret meter?
And yeah, a NA pump is fine. I've gotten more HP out of a 6.9 pump cranked up than most push through their turbo 7.3's, so it's usually not a problem until you get into "performance" power levels.
At idle, you have no boost, so if you give it a bunch of fuel, you get smoke.
At 2500 RPM and 10 PSI of boost, the engine can cleanly burn everything that IP could put out, with the fuel screw totally maxed etc(assuming correct timing, no boost/exhaust leaks etc).
So, you either tune it for no smoke at lower RPM(in which case you lose out on high end power), or tune it for no smoke at high RPM/boost(in which case you have to be careful driving it around off idle to make sure you don't give it too much throttle, or you will create smoke).
Black smoke is what you want to see when pushing too much fuel without the boost to clean it up.
EGTs are also affected in both cases - retarded timing means the IP adds more fuel to maintain the same engine output, resulting in low power and lower fuel economy.
Advanced timing(too far) results in a lot of clatter, lower power and lower fuel economy as the engine is literally fighting itself, with the fuel burning "too early" for efficient combustion.
I do my own timing tuning 'by ear' driving it and seeing what it does and then adjust. What feels the strongest power wise, with no blue/gray/white smoke is going to be good for economy and lower EGTs as well.
but my boost didn't see much of an increase from the high-flow exhaust. But lower EGT's is better peace of mind.







