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Message: [QUOTE="Cold Roller, post: 1037946, member: 9551"] :priest: Everyone is in the know; don't you know!:poke: For anyone that ever did a mod, there will be an opinion or the gospel. So what do I know... I never had a gasket failure and I did run hot tunes on 2 different trucks on stock bolts, however, I did change to ARPs and have not had any failures, yet. I never had a bad oil cooler. Never had an EGR or EGR cooler failure. I did have a flash-boil issue on one truck when I was beating on it real hard. Very soon after that, I did do the EGR cooler delete on that truck as a precaution. I did the same delete on a previous truck when there had been many reports of cooler failures, but no one really knew why. The average hot-rodder would be very happy with just a hot tune and NOTHING else. The more you go over modest tuning, the more it costs and the more other parts break. Torque converters or head gaskets go first and transmissions follow. I drove my latest truck for 2 years with higher HP mods. The first year saw no real issues except a potential T/C slip. After another year of larger mods it started to grind. I just dropped $5G ($6G after I pay the tax and get it into Canada) for a new transmission and T/C. So do the math, I have 2 sets of larger injectors, a new HPOP (cause I thought the old one was weak), 2 turbos, ARPs, EGR delete, CAI, 4" T/B exhaust, Ported intake, a tuner, a monitor, an AE (just in case), a 6.7 fuel system, the new T/C and trans (cause the trans would have probably gone south soon), and I still need bigger HP oil! Perhaps I should have just stayed close to stock and save my pennies for a pretty new one! There are many that have way more sunk into their trucks than I do, but it is fairly obvious that some of the upgrades are from watching those that went first break something and sit back and watch the results before doing the same. Others are from the jump on the band-wagon scenario. The only thing that is constant for any vehicle is, the cost goes up exponentially to the power gains!:hammer: [/QUOTE]