Towing Upgrades
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Mountain Pass
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I had the gears swapped since I had TALL ones in before. Now I have 4.30 and 35" tires. Running about 2000RPMs @ 65MPH.
Hotshot
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From: Las Cruces New Mexico
Not bad on the gearing,
if I were you I'll do in this order
1.Turbo billet wheel, KC drop in
or if you have the Dinero go straight to a t/4 set up(do research on this one)
2. IC (6.doh is a proven IC)
3. Efuel
4. Injectors (do your research really good on this one although 160/0 are proven, there still people that argue they aren't good enough for them)
5. Custom tunes
if I were you I'll do in this order
1.Turbo billet wheel, KC drop in
or if you have the Dinero go straight to a t/4 set up(do research on this one)
2. IC (6.doh is a proven IC)
3. Efuel
4. Injectors (do your research really good on this one although 160/0 are proven, there still people that argue they aren't good enough for them)
5. Custom tunes
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Mountain Pass
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Not bad on the gearing,
if I were you I'll do in this order
1.Turbo billet wheel, KC drop in
or if you have the Dinero go straight to a t/4 set up(do research on this one)
2. IC (6.doh is a proven IC)
3. Efuel
4. Injectors (do your research really good on this one although 160/0 are proven, there still people that argue they aren't good enough for them)
5. Custom tunes
if I were you I'll do in this order
1.Turbo billet wheel, KC drop in
or if you have the Dinero go straight to a t/4 set up(do research on this one)
2. IC (6.doh is a proven IC)
3. Efuel
4. Injectors (do your research really good on this one although 160/0 are proven, there still people that argue they aren't good enough for them)
5. Custom tunes
Unfortunately I will probably have to do injectors first. Early last year I had one on the way out and had to replace it (only did one because that's all I could afford at the time). Now I am hearing some increased chatter on another injector and have had a couple mornings of hard starts. Pretty sure at least one more has one foot in the grave. My hope is that I can do the injectors, fuel system and intercooler at the same time. The turbo and chip can come later.
I have found some new 6.0 ICs for around $300 but what is a good recommendation for the piping?
Laughing Gas
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OBS Solutions has complete intercooler plumbing and bracket kits. Just check to see whether the 6.0 intercooler will work with their brackets.
Carson Stauffer has pipes, but looks like the kit does not include the intake spider.
I have seen where people sourced parts from a bone yard SuperDuty. So it is just a matter of paying a vendor for a kit, or spending more time finding piece parts. When going the salvage route, have read where the spider must come from an early 99 SuperDuty.
RiffRaff sells conversion intake plenums to open up the diameter a bit as the OBS PowerStroke got a smaller plenum inlet than the SuperDuty.
Carson Stauffer has pipes, but looks like the kit does not include the intake spider.
I have seen where people sourced parts from a bone yard SuperDuty. So it is just a matter of paying a vendor for a kit, or spending more time finding piece parts. When going the salvage route, have read where the spider must come from an early 99 SuperDuty.
RiffRaff sells conversion intake plenums to open up the diameter a bit as the OBS PowerStroke got a smaller plenum inlet than the SuperDuty.
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Mountain Pass
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So it's sounding like just buying a new complete system for $1000 is worth it since many of them are straight bolt-ons. The time and energy to piece together a system seems like it would negate the minimal savings.
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Mountain Pass
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****QUICK UPDATE****
So we were headed out on a weekend excursion about 3 hours up the road. I decided to take the tune entirely off and run it completely stock. WOW...it actually towed so much better. Shift points were spot on, the EGTs were slightly higher on flat ground but stayed lower going up hill, and it seemed to have a bit much power. I think I will leave it in the "stock tune" mode from now on. I am still planning on doing the injectors and intercooler in January but probably won't do much else besides the turbo upgrade.
My EGTs on flat ground towing 13K stayed right around 1000 degrees. Pulling a couple of small grades the EGTs never went over 1250 so that is good. I was told that the intercooler will drop that dramatically. The good thing is that MOST of our trips are driving on flat grounds. Three or four times a year we head up to Tahoe which is a pretty good test for the truck.
So we were headed out on a weekend excursion about 3 hours up the road. I decided to take the tune entirely off and run it completely stock. WOW...it actually towed so much better. Shift points were spot on, the EGTs were slightly higher on flat ground but stayed lower going up hill, and it seemed to have a bit much power. I think I will leave it in the "stock tune" mode from now on. I am still planning on doing the injectors and intercooler in January but probably won't do much else besides the turbo upgrade.
My EGTs on flat ground towing 13K stayed right around 1000 degrees. Pulling a couple of small grades the EGTs never went over 1250 so that is good. I was told that the intercooler will drop that dramatically. The good thing is that MOST of our trips are driving on flat grounds. Three or four times a year we head up to Tahoe which is a pretty good test for the truck.
Laughing Gas
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From: Fowler Colorado
agreed. Edge tunes are known not to do well in anything as far as I know. Especially not 7.3s. Hydras the way to go. Custom tuned hydra is even better. I had one from 1023 and it was kinda 50/50. Good driving but pretty smokey. Jellybuilt has good reviews I might try them once I get another one
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Mountain Pass
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agreed. Edge tunes are known not to do well in anything as far as I know. Especially not 7.3s. Hydras the way to go. Custom tuned hydra is even better. I had one from 1023 and it was kinda 50/50. Good driving but pretty smokey. Jellybuilt has good reviews I might try them once I get another one
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Well...I had it on my truck for a while with no issues. After about 2 years of having it one there, I started to notice that the truck would lag and wasn't performing like it used to. Then I started to get a slipping/missing issue. It would surge and stutter. I removed the chip and it persisted. I took it in and they thought it was the transmission so I had that completely redone (was planning on upgrading it anyway). After a wee of driving it started back up with the same issues. When the shop looked it over again, the guy asked if I had a TS chip on it before. I told him yes and he knew right away that the sensor in the speedometer was fried. They sent the cluster to a shop in New Jersey that rebuilds them. Truck ran perfect after that.
I decided to test the chip out again as soon as I put it on the truck started running bad again...not as bad as before but definitely was not good. I took it off and the truck ran perfect.
I decided to test the chip out again as soon as I put it on the truck started running bad again...not as bad as before but definitely was not good. I took it off and the truck ran perfect.