Yea man this internet sure has done that huh, the small world thing??? I'm pretty sure I've seen your GTO in the build section, right???
Chatty good to hear your towing performance and EGTs. Sounds like you put your Super Duty to work for sure, and it likes it!!! Now I'm here to learn so you guys please bear with me. This deal I'm putting together has 4.88 gears with 33" tall tires, so getting a heavy load going shouldn't be an issue. Now I do want to be able to cruise down the hwy at a decent rpm at 75-80 and if that means adding a gear vendor than so be it. Triple overdrive, how about that??? I currently own a 02 F350 drw with just 80k miles that I put a gearvendor on it years ago, best 3k I've ever spent on this truck. Now I've been wanting an F450 and this 6.7 intrigues me. I do believe Ford's done a great job in developing this power plant. The block looks much like an ls 6.0 block but on steroids. The only weakness I can see are the wimpy rods, so with that I guess I'm going to have to invest in billets. I purchased a low mileage 2010 F450 without any motor or transmission, I don't want anything to do with the 6.4. The guy I bought it from bought it for the motor and transmission so it worked out great for the two of us. So instead of purchasing a 70k truck and go to modding it, I'm going this route. This way I can build it the way I want and hopefully it'll be better than and brand new truck.... **** not having any payments makes it better in my mind, or at least that's the way my brain works anyways. So when I'm done with this frankenstein I'll have a heavy duty truck with a four link out back with air bag suspension all around for a decent ride quality and a pretty bad-ass motor putting out any wheres of north 650hp and maybe even more!!! But with **** loads of torque. That's what I'm really after is the torque, but the hp #'s that comes along with it is the gravy. Now all this talk of twins and even triples has got me thinking AND learning. The benefits of that is having a small turbo for super quick spooling and the larger (be it one or two) is to continue forcing more and more air without compromising that super quick spooling, right??? Again, I'm in the learning process so please bear with me.....And if that's the case the only downside is the extra expensive of the turbos, right??? Well that and the fabrication to incorporate those into the system... I can do my own fabrication so no worries there. So the "big" question is, will it be worth it with my application, those super low gears and all???
Again, thanks for sharing ya'lls setups and it's performance and learning me this pressurizing of this diesel stuff!!!!! And if I do go with twins or if it happens to be triples, the question will be what turbos should I look at??? Like I said earlier, this stuff is additive as all hell!!!! And thanks again guys!!!!
Oh yea, one more thing, I thing I'm going to mount my batteries down underneath the truck on the frame rail so that'll give me some extra space.....Much rather have some turbos living underneath the hood rather than a couple of boring batteries!!!!