The only time a dyno gets anywhere around here is at one of the truck pulls, usually August something.
That place is a little over an hour from my house.
If I go or not depends on our work schedule and the weather.
I was all ready to go last year, it was pouring down the rain so I stayed home.
They were choking on dust up at the pull, never rained a drop.
Basics of build,
minimum bore on block, turned out to be 30 over on mine
balanced rotating asembley
.040 off the pistons
port matched intake and exhaust
110 ft lbs on ARP head studs 220,000 PSI studs
grade 8 bolts in both the intake and exhaust manifolds custom cut to full depth and twice stock torque
Copper form a gasket on both sides of intake gaskets
Copper form a gasket on both sides of exhaust manifold gaskets
Sealed Power hypereutec pistons, stock crown height
DPS Stage 1 injectors
DB2 5070 IP that has been tweeked
I think that turbo is a .85 AR, that sticks in my head as the number anyway
Agnem, I hear you have an IP I may be interested in.
The Moose Pump sounds like something I may need.
But then again I heard we may have 4.00 a gallon gas here soon, so we all know where diesel prices will be.
I was looking at the IDI fest info, may have to try and slide up there.
That should only be a couple hours away from me.
I went back up and read above.
As for the 40 thou off the pistons, I had several conversations with Ken at DPS.
I had every intention of buying one of his motors since no one here wanted anything to do with an IDI rebuild.
That was a number we had agreed on since I do have to start and drive my truck every day, even when the thermometer is below zero.
After the Reviva fiasco, and how long it took to get some money back for a product that had problems, there was no time for a DPS engine, snow season was on top of me.
I did have to take a big chance on the block and machine shop work, even though I pointed out how a 6.9 could be bored without sleeves there was no warranty on the block work.
Sleeves in the 7.3 have poisoned the machine shops on IDI engines around here.
Since I drive right by the machine shop owners house of the one that did my work every day, there is now one shop here that will work on a 6.9 IDI.
I blow a little black so the turbo spools every time I climb that hill in front of his house, just for him.
Back in those days, before the nation wide CDL, Colorado was where all the fast meat wagons ran out of.
Colorado had this nice thing, if you had a Colorado drivers license and gat caught speeding, as long as you paid the ticket before it was due, the ticket did show up on your driving record.
But the nice thing was there were no points deducted from you license unless it happened in Colorado.
So if the wallet was full, loud pedal on the floor.
Our usual delivery schedule put us out of town after the time you had to leave and average 50 MPH straight through to the delivery to make it.
Rain, snow, sleet or sun didn't make any difference.
You had a delivery schedule and delivery was expected on time.
Even with 300 gallons of fuel on board, I had to stop for fuel somewhere close to the Ohio Pa border, you had scales to cross and a couple meals to eat somewhere between Denver and the east coast.
Scott Truck Lines were the colors I was flying back then, they have gone the way of so many other trucking companies now though.
100 MPH was cruising speed, dropped in the big hole at 85, so 100+ was easy to do.
I will have to say, I had many laughs when passing someone at 80.
They thought they were doing good right up till you shifted to the big hole at 85.
I had a lot of fun, but I am sure that is part of the reason my teeth fell out before I was 40 and all of my hair was grey way before 50.
I'm sure you know it, but he's talking about the 6.9/7.3 IDI. I know I kinda chuckle when someone posts up talking about there IDI, and a 6.2/6.5, and I'm like that 6.2/6.5 is an IDI as well 
. Oh well we all know that our IDI's are the real IDI's 
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