Please list your cheap boost mods:

1. Design
2. Cost
3. Labor time to install
4. Overall power rating: 1-5

Thanks

 

i went to a pep boys and bought a "Power Adder" intake, a couple of clamps a 45 degree bent tube and made a intake out of it. I also disassembled some of that battery box and fitted the intake right in there. in all it was under $70 and probably spent like 2 hours in total. overall power rating, i get more out of the turbo now, but it isn't anything like throwing a tuner on it.

 

oh yeah...power adder was on one of those shows on spike tv, either trucks or horse power tv. so i mean those guys approved of it and i love it...forgot to mention that earlier.

 

Do you have guages? do you know what your top boost is now? what tuner do you have? do you have an Overboost eliminator?
the stock turbo is only efficient up to 25 PSI of boost anything over that and you're pissing in the wind.
NEED MORE INFO on what youve got, and what you want to do.

 

I guess for more boost, I would do the 6637 mod for better flow, I would also do the CCV mod to reduce restriction in the intake, Zoodad mod for cooler air, and muffler delete for better flow until I can afford 5 in exhaust.

 

if u want more boost also take the red wastegate line out... spools up faster and higher boost too.. but make sure u get an overboost annhiliator to prevent ur truck from defueling due to overboost

 

boost tube from d'fuser or make one its a small rubber hose and brass fitting that gous between the waste gate actuator and the red line also get a bleed off valve, to get both like 50-60 just the line is like 6 i can hit 28 pounds wide open

 

I was talking to a truck puller a couple weeks ago and he said he heard about bending the fins just a bit to make them catch the air better. He didnt know which side, but I would assume exhaust. He was going to research this a bit more. Has anybody heard anything like that?

Smoke - Did that hurt your milage like unplugging the red line? When is pumpkin fest?

 

I think your going to far!!

 

Jeez -- I'm pretty sure screwing with the turbo vanes (on either wheel) is a recipe for desaster. You will end up with more boost though... WHEN the turbo disintegrates and you buy an upgraded one (if your engine doesn't injest anything major, that is)...

That said, yanking the wastegate is quick, easy no-brainer, and is good for 2-3 psi, but you have to have the backup mods to go with it. That would be the intake, exaust preferably, gauges, and chip. At that point, you will easily max out the stock turbo and beyond. I unplugged my waste gate line and it was a noticable, measureable difference on the boost gauge. BUT, I got surge and too, so I installed the Wicked Wheel. No more surge and no more overboost (tops out right at 25 now).

More boost is good, but only with supporting mods and only up to what the stock turbo can handle.

Joe

 

You really don't want to start messing with the turbo vanes or you going to screw stuff up bad. If it was done, the adjustments would need to absolutely perfect on all vanes otherwise imbalance and your turbo will be destroyed, along with the engine, more than likely. If you really want more boost do all the mods stated(exhaust, intake, chip), get an ATS housing for the turbo, to avoid getting surge, and this should allow you a little higher boost numbers, also make sure you get gauges, especially a pyro guage.

 

my milage is the same as before the boost tube my milage is getting poor now because of the up pipe leaking but i'm going to fix it until i have a different turbo b/c i already have all the late model parts to upgrade it. i think pumkinfest is next week but not completely sure