icanfixall
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My dyno day is coming. I'm making a video of the work I planned on doing first... Pop test ans match all injectors.. Compression test... timing ans installing the pump... Something for everybody in one video....
I've been in NMB2's truck and it is a beast. I really hope you do have the skills to fabricate your manifolds and run the HX35 Cummins turbo, I can' wait to see somebody try it, but it would be a real challenge if you could not make your own stuff like that. If you do a nice job of it, others here might be interested in sending you some more projects and you could make a little cash. Head gaskets seem to be the major failure point, the ARP studs installed correctly along with a set of updated head gaskets usually keeps this problem at bay. RLDSL suggests that you use Hylomar spray to coat Victor-Reinz head gaskets. The thing NMB2 has done much differently than others to hold his 20+ psiG boost is to overtorque those ARP studs. I think most here only run 85-95 ft-lbs of torque on them as the instructions suggest. If you overtorque anything, be really sure you can trust your torque wrench. I wouldn't mess around with any special head gaskets as the spray and studs usually makes the head gasket issue much less of a problem. I really think with the knowledge of the collective there are some IDIs on this board that are very much more powerful than stock. For instance I'd really like to see Icanfixall's truck with Moose Pump and NMB2's truck with the DPS Pump and other mods on the dyno.
I think i can get some headgasket coating from my work (general atomics) as far as the manifolds go, i am do alot of offroad fabwork so shouldn't be toooo difficult.
one of my first lower arms over 3 years ago
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more recent work
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my most recent bumper made
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i think a set of manifolds wont be TOO hard
Anyways tonight I prepped the van to pull the motor, fired the van up one last time just to drive it a little and check the heath of the 180k 7.3 in it, and damn does it run good almost a shame that I'm gonna blow it
if I ever move somewhere that has a dyno, I'll do it.