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Old Apr 27, 2018 | 02:49 PM
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I put in new up pipes and now my EGTs are higher. I took everything apart again and have confirmed everything is correctly put in and there are no huge boost leaks. I’m pretty convinced there is something wrong with these up pipes, I’m hitting 1000 degrees easily, unless my egt probe is broken, it is an edge. Lmk if there’s anything I should look out for
 
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Old Apr 27, 2018 | 03:12 PM
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Markus,

Kind of need some comparables to go forward.

Cold start, edge egt reading
idle to temp, edge egt reading
mild throttle, sustained " "" "" (see if the numbers build or just go into orbit)
WOT run "" "" "
Cool down of turbo say 5 minutes.

Lets evaluate the edge and see if it is a fault or if there is a buried mystery. I'm thinking your readings are way off the chart and you may have a calibration issue.

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Old Apr 27, 2018 | 03:13 PM
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Ok, so we all know there's more than one Denny
 
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Old Apr 27, 2018 | 03:13 PM
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Do you have a boost gauge? If so what's it telling you?
 
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Old Apr 27, 2018 | 03:20 PM
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Boost is around 30psi max, start up EGTs is at 190-200 degrees. Cool down takes a lot longer than before.
 
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Old Apr 27, 2018 | 03:22 PM
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When warm the truck sits around 260. In 3rd gear around 35 it’s at around 450-500 and then when I floor it 40-60 shifting gears I hit 800 easily
 
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Old Apr 27, 2018 | 03:29 PM
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My boost will peak at 26 and I can easily hit 1250 on a straight run. Not that mine is right but yours doesn't sound bad compared to mine.
 
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Old Apr 27, 2018 | 03:31 PM
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Wide open freeway I can hit 1200 fast as crap wasn’t this bad before the up pipes.
 
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Old Apr 28, 2018 | 03:15 PM
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" there are no huge boost leaks."

Not sure just what you mean by that statement. Leaks of any kind are an issue and require attention.
 
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Old Apr 28, 2018 | 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by hydro man 17
" there are no huge boost leaks."

Not sure just what you mean by that statement. Leaks of any kind are an issue and require attention.
I know my boots need to be replaced cause they’re old but before changing my up pipes my egts were not this bad, I cleaned off each boot before putting them back on.

I’m personally thinking it could either be my EBPV isn’t fully open, my up pipe collector still isn’t fully seated, or my egt probe has gone bad or the fact my spyder to turbo clamp is kinda screwed up. Truck will be getting new boots and clamps in ~ a month.

Idk if my 6637 filter needs to be changed, I bought it June of last year, I drive on dirt roads a couple times a week, and I’ve probably put 12-15k on it
 
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Old Apr 28, 2018 | 05:10 PM
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My first target would be revisiting the up pipe situation since that is when your issue started I believe. You could test the EGT probe in boiling water (just the tip) but that does not get very hot. Might be a way to rig it in the oven - as long as that is wife friendly. Definitely make the spider and turbo clamps right using the proper band clamps, not just hose clamps if that is what you have now.
 
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Old Apr 28, 2018 | 06:19 PM
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If your up pipes were really bad, as in leaking huge amounts of exhaust gas prior to the turbo, and this would be loud with lots of soot under the hood and they would likely fall out of the collector prior to loosening or cutting the bolts, then, the installation of new up pipes that contain the exhaust gasses could cause an increase in EGT's because the path would have more resistance. However, this should be offset by the additional boost that the new uppies assist in producing.

As others have stated, those EGT's are not that bad.

Are you running the same tune?
 
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Old Apr 28, 2018 | 06:32 PM
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If your up pipes were really bad, as in leaking huge amounts of exhaust gas prior to the turbo, and this would be loud with lots of soot under the hood and they would likely fall out of the collector prior to loosening or cutting the bolts, then, the installation of new up pipes that contain the exhaust gasses could cause an increase in EGT's because the path would have more resistance. However, this should be offset by the additional boost that the new uppies assist in producing.

As others have stated, those EGT's are not that bad.

Are you running the same tune?
Yup nothing else has changed, I see that being the case but everyone else online reported lower EGTs after replacing them. They definitely needed to be replaced, 300k truck in New England, they had soot on the pipes. But the egt probe is placed in the manifold and more gasses charging the turbo to me means less EGTs cause the motor doesn’t have to work as hard to make the truck move. Has anyone grounded down the line up pin on the collector to turbo thing? Or is that a dumb idea?
 
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Old Apr 28, 2018 | 08:39 PM
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I don't think that I would grind it down completely due to it indexing the collector to the turbo and keeping the angles to the up pipes consistent and thus preventing potential stress on the bellows should the V-band clamp become loose.

You might try making the tip a little more pointed to assist in the initial alignment due to this one step being THE royal PITA at times.
 
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Old Apr 28, 2018 | 09:11 PM
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So it looks like I’m changing gears on this, my injector pulse width is very high like 3.03 sometimes and used to never go over 2.4 . I’m guessing either my HPOP, ICP or IPR is screwed, any insight on what to check now, I rebuilt my HPOP last year for leaks and it was good up until now I guess.
 
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