Berman's 7.3 build

dsberman94 · Jan 6, 2014

TyCorr said:
I felt like I was at the gas station again. I gassed up the car and got stuck in line behind some dude who was yapping about his superchips tuner on his 03 7.3. He swapped in some 600hp plus injectors. Has a "bored" out turbo with twin wheels on it. In reality it was a bone stock e99 with two bad injectors.

He had the college girl at the checkout counter convinced he was the pioneer of diesel performance until she started talking about how her dad has been pulling since the 70's and it got real quiet.

Knuckleheads.

SHUTDOWN!!!!!!!!!! lol.

lincolnlocker · Jan 6, 2014

TyCorr said:
I felt like I was at the gas station again. I gassed up the car and got stuck in line behind some dude who was yapping about his superchips tuner on his 03 7.3. He swapped in some 600hp plus injectors. Has a "bored" out turbo with twin wheels on it. In reality it was a bone stock e99 with two bad injectors.

He had the college girl at the checkout counter convinced he was the pioneer of diesel performance until she started talking about how her dad has been pulling since the 70's and it got real quiet.

Knuckleheads.

lol. I cant ever help myself when people start talking like that. I just cant let people spread bull**** like that and usually say something.

dsberman94 said:
SHUTDOWN!!!!!!!!!! lol.

He was talking bout you bud. You reminded him of that situation. Lol

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dsberman94 · Jan 6, 2014

i dont get it.

TyCorr · Jan 6, 2014

We already know that. You're fine man. You were getting a little crazy there for a second about being a cutting edge innovator and thats it.

dsberman94 · Jan 6, 2014

my smartazz response to "my turbo has 2 wheels".

"Kewl dood, im running 2 wheels in my turbo too."

really thats awesome

"yea and so is every other turbo'd vehicle in existence dumbazz"

dsberman94 · Jan 6, 2014

wait... i get it now.

dsberman94 · Feb 15, 2014

Well thanks to lincolnlocker I've diagnosed most of my issues I currently have with this truck. HPOP main priority with some good tread used tires for now till I get spacers for the 18s. T500 is what I'm going with.

lincolnlocker · Feb 15, 2014

dsberman94 said:
Well thanks to lincolnlocker I've diagnosed most of my issues I currently have with this truck. HPOP main priority with some good tread used tires for now till I get spacers for the 18s. T500 is what I'm going with.

Yep, icp in his 120 tune was 2066psi at 78% dc. Not a happy motor!

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dsberman94 · Feb 15, 2014

Also not to the floor. I'm gonna see if john fitts might have an extra HPOP laying around that I could grab off him as a core. Also block heater is high on the list but that's only $60. And I'm just gonna do a front end rebuild. I think some of the nose is u joints. And that constant sound when stopped is definitely the exhaust because it doesn't do it in reverse. Now that I'm really thinking back it started after we put the exhaust on there a few months ago. But it has been getting worse.

dsberman94 · Feb 15, 2014

Plus a possible slightly bent pushrod. But hey at least it passed the contribution test on stock with flying colors.

bruce · Feb 16, 2014

Shouldn't be a surprise, ad's with nozzles are about as oil hungry as you can get

lincolnlocker · Feb 16, 2014

bruce said:
Shouldn't be a surprise, ad's with nozzles are about as oil hungry as you can get

Yeah for sure... stock tune had trouble holding 2400psi.

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dsberman94 · Feb 16, 2014

186,500 miles on the original pump and the truck was tuned before I bought it so who knows how they treated it.

lincolnlocker · Feb 16, 2014

dsberman94 said:
186,500 miles on the original pump and the truck was tuned before I bought it so who knows how they treated it.

Cant be any worse then how you treat it at all!!!!!

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dsberman94 · Feb 16, 2014

Prolly not. I keep up on the general maintenance during the winter. During the summer I'm actually able to fix the chit. I just don't realize what to look for or what to watch like icp and things like that. Which is where I was extremely thankful for your help last night.

RedRice589 · Feb 16, 2014

lincolnlocker said:
Cant be any worse then how you treat it at all!!!!!

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At least he was nice enough to look it over! Always somebody who has been around and seen more to help out! Being willing to learn is nice too:morons:

dsberman94 · Feb 16, 2014

I was very thankful for him helping me out. I wish he lived out here so I could learn more about these engines. Most shops close to here don't even work on 7.3s any more. I talked to a guy who has a diesel shop in Scranton and he works on 6.0 years and newer of all makes. Said he rarely gets a 7.3 in.

dsberman94 · Feb 20, 2014

Had the window down today and I think I could hear that pushrod out the intake. Pretty consistent thump when I got into it. Which matched the rpm. So I guess I'm gonna order a new set of pushrods and change them all out.

dsberman94 · Mar 26, 2014

egts are getting a little out of control with this on-its-death-bed hpop. still trying to find a core to send in. pushrods should be going in next week. buying a new fender and hopefully a bumper next week as well. as soon as im able to find and hpop for a core ill send it in. got a couple more small projects going on as well. just figured id update this a little bit for now.