6.9
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Joined: Nov 2004
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From: Manitoba
Visit http://www.dps-performance.com/ they have some awsome stuff to help 6.9 and 7.3s handle the extra HP. Check out the tweeked IPs and injectors.....may have to contact them as they are Top Secret items.
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Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 21,285
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From: Nutter Fort, WV
I had all my stuff built to my specs locally.
I talked with Ken on the phone and was going to buy an engine from him.
I was in the middle of a buyout on a crap reman engine I got from another place, they kept messing me up with my money.
I plow snow and the season was getting close.
I got my money a couple days before Thanksgiving and DPS must have been closed for the holidays.
So I was worried about snow and went with a salvage yard engine and had the fuel system done here locally so I could get my truck on the road before we had snow.
We have not had any snow at all this year, so I wish I would have waited.
But we all know about hind sight.
The money was right on the salvage yard motor and it runs good.
I also know that I could have had more if I would have waited.
But then I could not chance losing my snow customers if my truck was down and we got dumped on with a big storm.
I have been running hot diesels for a long time now. I learned a lot of what I know on the big rigs. I have over 6 million miles under my belt from those days when I was a Colorado meat hauler. My big truck would blow six foot flames out the stacks when I stood on the fast pedal at night. The only thing I miss about those days was the look on another drivers face I was passing when I dropped it into high gear at 85 MPH and then I was gone. Yes I used to be one of those high speed trucks you cuss as they blow you across the road, I had a very long way to go and a very short time to get there.
I like the ceramic coated piston DPS has.
I also like the head studs.
I like the Stage 1 injectors and the IP's he has.
I also like the O ring head gaskets so you can really crank the boost up.
That was going to require water injection since I have no room for an intercooler because of my snow plow bracket. I have a 1/2" thick steel plate where the intercooler needs to set.
We talked about the milled pistons as well, but since I must be able to start my truck when it is cold outside we were going to keep that to a minimum if at all.
I talked with Ken on the phone and was going to buy an engine from him.
I was in the middle of a buyout on a crap reman engine I got from another place, they kept messing me up with my money.
I plow snow and the season was getting close.
I got my money a couple days before Thanksgiving and DPS must have been closed for the holidays.
So I was worried about snow and went with a salvage yard engine and had the fuel system done here locally so I could get my truck on the road before we had snow.
We have not had any snow at all this year, so I wish I would have waited.
But we all know about hind sight.
The money was right on the salvage yard motor and it runs good.
I also know that I could have had more if I would have waited.
But then I could not chance losing my snow customers if my truck was down and we got dumped on with a big storm.
I have been running hot diesels for a long time now. I learned a lot of what I know on the big rigs. I have over 6 million miles under my belt from those days when I was a Colorado meat hauler. My big truck would blow six foot flames out the stacks when I stood on the fast pedal at night. The only thing I miss about those days was the look on another drivers face I was passing when I dropped it into high gear at 85 MPH and then I was gone. Yes I used to be one of those high speed trucks you cuss as they blow you across the road, I had a very long way to go and a very short time to get there.
I like the ceramic coated piston DPS has.
I also like the head studs.
I like the Stage 1 injectors and the IP's he has.
I also like the O ring head gaskets so you can really crank the boost up.
That was going to require water injection since I have no room for an intercooler because of my snow plow bracket. I have a 1/2" thick steel plate where the intercooler needs to set.
We talked about the milled pistons as well, but since I must be able to start my truck when it is cold outside we were going to keep that to a minimum if at all.
