Tuning the 7.3 in current times

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That's sounds like a lot of haze. Cold my 300/200s will have but after the engine is warm, they run clean.

Does your engine use oil between oil changes?

I want a vgt as well as compounds. lol
 

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That's sounds like a lot of haze. Cold my 300/200s will have but after the engine is warm, they run clean.

Does your engine use oil between oil changes?

I want a vgt as well as compounds. lol
No, it doesn't use/ burn oil...maybe amounts in milliliters but nothing out of the ordinary. Yeah, the amount of haze is enough to call the hazmat team. It does clear up some as it starts warming up and not too bad once warm and has been driven.
I wonder if that has anything to do with my poor mileage with the 250's. I've had crap for mileage since going T4

My engine only has around 15k mi or so since being rebuilt....I'm starting to think my math is incorrect on mileage of the injectors; it has to be closer to 50k but that's irrelevant.

I am never the lucky one, everything is out of the norm for me usually. But the important thing is my truck has been extremely reliable. I haven't had anything happen really besides normal wear parts wearing out. Performance parts have't had long lives but no major failures or issues like you see people asking about over and over. My truck always fires right up and gets me where I need to go without issue.

I would imagine your truck would definitely benefit from VGT and/ or compounds. I'm really hoping KC turbo's eventually makes a VGT for the 7.3...I'd drop my T4 setup in a heartbeat. With his gen 3 turbo's I question if he might actually be pulling ahead of BW now. He's currently working on a give away truck with 238/80's that seems like it would walk all over my truck and he hasn't even upgraded much of anything else yet. I think he did turbo/ injectors, tranny and fuel pump...and broke 500HP to the wheels.

I feel like my truck is a turd now...it does do good now on the bottom end and under normal driving, boost is much smoother
 

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No, it doesn't use/ burn oil...maybe amounts in milliliters but nothing out of the ordinary. Yeah, the amount of haze is enough to call the hazmat team. It does clear up some as it starts warming up and not too bad once warm and has been driven.
I wonder if that has anything to do with my poor mileage with the 250's. I've had crap for mileage since going T4

My engine only has around 15k mi or so since being rebuilt....I'm starting to think my math is incorrect on mileage of the injectors; it has to be closer to 50k but that's irrelevant.

I am never the lucky one, everything is out of the norm for me usually. But the important thing is my truck has been extremely reliable. I haven't had anything happen really besides normal wear parts wearing out. Performance parts have't had long lives but no major failures or issues like you see people asking about over and over. My truck always fires right up and gets me where I need to go without issue.

I would imagine your truck would definitely benefit from VGT and/ or compounds. I'm really hoping KC turbo's eventually makes a VGT for the 7.3...I'd drop my T4 setup in a heartbeat. With his gen 3 turbo's I question if he might actually be pulling ahead of BW now. He's currently working on a give away truck with 238/80's that seems like it would walk all over my truck and he hasn't even upgraded much of anything else yet. I think he did turbo/ injectors, tranny and fuel pump...and broke 500HP to the wheels.

I feel like my truck is a turd now...it does do good now on the bottom end and under normal driving, boost is much smoother

When you had your engine built, did you put cut pistons in it?


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