not necessarily, its all a matter of efficiency, its key. If you're out of the chargers compressor map, the truck will actually smoke more and have higher egts. Higher boost pressure isnt always the answer.
With my 190/100s and Elites SSX, cruising at 70, 1100 degrees, accelerating normal from 30 to 70 ill see about 1300, and wide open from a dead stop ill peg out my 1600 degree gauge QUICK and it will stay there until i let out. I also have a Banks intercooler, water injection, and all the other supporting mods.
After I removed my ficm tune, now I have a sct tow tune, 155/30% and a powermax wot from 20-110 I hit a max of 1350, and around 1250 for the most of the pull.
Why did you remove the FICM tune? In addition to a gearing issue, I'm wondering if my FICM tune is contributing to my heating problem.
Powermax 155/30% I run 700-900 on flat, hills up to 1300 and full throttle run 1500-1600*, that's on tow tunes.