EGT'S safe or not!!
 

i live in florida and its getting to be about 85/90 degrees while toweing my comercial boat today on the turnpike running 80 mph my egts were at 1250-1320 depending on if it was pulling or coasting. i only have to drive that speed for about 15 mins from west palm to jupiter, my question is. is that temp to hot to run on my B.D SUPER B SPECIAL? i ran my truck tonight wide open through all the gears with everything turned up and i hit about 950 degrees max egt. i would like to keep it in the 3 diget range while toweing. im thinking of some water meth, or change my injectors to either smaller or some ddp 150's.this is my busy season and i will be toweing a 31 foot boat almost everyday. any help would be great!
thanks guys :tu:

i thought anything over 1200 degrees for any length of time you was hitting on the upper limit :humm:

in the 1/4 mile i can hit 2100 degrees water meth will give you a 2 to 300 degree drop but becareful you can quench it with to much you will know
anymore questions about water meth dont hesitate to ask

okay question what about the 1200 degrees that anything above for so long melts alumnium like your pistons how do you get away with that :humm:

if you keep it above that for a long time yes you will begin to make your truck melt down, but the average time its there for its not going to hurt anything, just be sure to let your truck cool off before you just turn it off, invest in a turbo timer :tu:

What injectors you running now?

yes get a cleaner injector and you will be happy
been there myself.

The DDP's are nice injectors, when my 80hp mystery injectors went bad, I got 125hp DDP's, I have lower egts, and less smoke with these, much cleaner

B.D pulce 150's just another cheap injector like the jammers

Don't be scared of 1300. I have a 1600* pyro and you know its hot when you lift your foot and it takes 6 seconds for the needle to fall past 1600*. These engines are rated and 1250 all day.

So there Luke, on the subject of injectors...:w2: how do those Fireballs compare to DDP's?:humm:

What's the speed limit in FL? :w2:

you can be pulling a hill towing and warm it up for a little bit but he needs to cool back down pretty quick. i have saw sled pullers get close to the 2000 mark. some make it some dont. melted pistons is kind of weird looking things.

I hit 1100/1200 while towing my boat on my tiny little HY....talked to my mechanic (who happens to be a member..ohhh and the mad scientist with p-pumps) and we discussed it a bit....

you can do 1200...1100 was fine for me and he says they can withstand sustained runs at that....Quote, "they can run all day at 1100" I was worried cuz on my 99 I was used to 900-950 while towing.

NCA

just orderd a water meth kit for bot the trucks. got the snow performance stage 2. anybody on here running this? :tu:
thanks guys

not yet, i am lookin at it for my 6.4 though, post up and let know how it is to install if you do it yourself, and how much it helps etc... :pca1:

will do. i will be installing the kits myself, il post a thread when i get it all done

ok cool :c: best of luck to ya

How did that water meth kit help out? Im in the same exact situation, wondering if i should do new injectors and kick the jammer 150's, or do water meth and an exhaust manifold...?

i like it alot. i also ported and polished my head with bigger valves and a cam so i couldnt compare it from before. but with all that air now i can tow 100 mph+ and it dosent get over 1100. im ready to change out my pulce 150's with some ddp 200's i would try differnt injectors first unless you want the extra 50 h.p. from the water meth.

EGT'S safe or not!!
 

Good info... I bet I'll get close to 50 more horse anyway just switching to a quality injector too... It's between ddp150's and fireball 150's. If I do the fireballs I'll have money left over to do a 3 piece manifold also

ive heard nothing but good things about fireballs. and im in the same boat as far as injectors mine are just like jammers. there dirty smokey and hott

EGT'S safe or not!!
 

That's what I keep hearing also. Great price on em, and good feedback from everyone. May just be worth a shot...

let me know if you get them. im keeping my options open on injectos its either ii 200s ddp200s or mach injectors. but i wouldnt mind saveing some money on an injector thats just as good :c:

Installing the stage 3 tomorrow & air dog & compound turbos/ pictures later :jump:

EGT'S safe or not!!
 

I'll let u know scum. Chances are I'll try em. I'm almost thinkin now I may throw on a set of .093 tubes on it too to give it a mean idle...

I think Im Gonna Go with a little bigger turbo after I get my heads studded to run a little cooler on the EGTs Ive seen mine around 1500 a couple times just for a second or two I was really running the piss out of it Im pretty impressed with this SCT its pretty darn quick but hardly anysmoke, I got it on the Street tune from Innovative

sct is the way to go with the 6.0's