travisH3
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alrighty got time to throw the turbo on today. went together decently. truck is low miles so didnt really have any issues getting the old stuff off. hardest part is getting the up pipe to turbo bolts off. I sprayed them down good a day before to help break everything loose.
Instructions were okay. we ended up not draining the coolant, basically pushing fuel cooler and vgt cooler to the side and then when the time came just swapped coolant lines really quick and only lost a cup or so of coolant, we didnt pull battery tray or degas bottle obviously since we didnt drain the coolant. didnt see the need too. the instructions were not really thorough on the fuel cooler brackets when going back together, follow down through the pictures and you will see how we used them, not sure if we used them correctly but we made it work. tried to take as many pictures as possible going through the process. we also did not mess with taking loose the down pipe. it ended up lining up perfect with just a little persuasion. fitment of everything was pretty much spot on. turbo sounds pretty awesome thats for sure
Im gonna hold off on how i feel how the truck drives, I have been waiting on gearhead to get me my tune since last week and finally made the phone call yesterday to get the ball rolling. i had to call again today and said they were working on it and i have it in a couple hours and still dont have the tune so right now Im running my same custom tunes for the stock turbos and hoping new tunes will liven it back up.
initial drive thoughts,
EBP- pretty much 1:1 ratio, i think its a little better than stock
EGT- cruising its the same as stock but getting on it it definitely gets a little hotter
those will prolly change once i get my tunes. i will get better videos and more pictures once I get the engine bay cleaned up too. Its raining really bad all day today and 5-7 inches of snow tomorrow so hopefully get the gopro out this weekend and let er rip for a good review.
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Instructions were okay. we ended up not draining the coolant, basically pushing fuel cooler and vgt cooler to the side and then when the time came just swapped coolant lines really quick and only lost a cup or so of coolant, we didnt pull battery tray or degas bottle obviously since we didnt drain the coolant. didnt see the need too. the instructions were not really thorough on the fuel cooler brackets when going back together, follow down through the pictures and you will see how we used them, not sure if we used them correctly but we made it work. tried to take as many pictures as possible going through the process. we also did not mess with taking loose the down pipe. it ended up lining up perfect with just a little persuasion. fitment of everything was pretty much spot on. turbo sounds pretty awesome thats for sure
Im gonna hold off on how i feel how the truck drives, I have been waiting on gearhead to get me my tune since last week and finally made the phone call yesterday to get the ball rolling. i had to call again today and said they were working on it and i have it in a couple hours and still dont have the tune so right now Im running my same custom tunes for the stock turbos and hoping new tunes will liven it back up.
initial drive thoughts,
EBP- pretty much 1:1 ratio, i think its a little better than stock
EGT- cruising its the same as stock but getting on it it definitely gets a little hotter
those will prolly change once i get my tunes. i will get better videos and more pictures once I get the engine bay cleaned up too. Its raining really bad all day today and 5-7 inches of snow tomorrow so hopefully get the gopro out this weekend and let er rip for a good review.
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I'm sure you'll love that thing once you get the custom calibrations in it, we really love ours over the factory junk. We'll also see if we can get some better pics in there for the fuel cooler brackets. Thanks again!
