I got a Silver 62 right now. 62x 14 x 74 mm

 

A coupe of questions then. What's your EGT's runnin amd have you checked the air flow monitor on the air cleaner lately. No that I wuld put much stock in what they say but it's better then nothin. I just don't think your trucks drawin enough air through the intake myself. If your EGT's were runnin high I would look at the turbo being a problem.

 

My egt gauge is whacky. It stays at 500 then bounces around. So no way to tell. The "filter minder" if thats what your talkin bout its good. Thats a new filter element on it too. And I had a silver bullet turbo on first and had too much lag so i changed out to a silver 62.

(which with much thanks to II i swapped turbos in their parking lot, borrowing their tools, and even had their help heating and bending my drainback tube. Much thanks to II!)

 

I think you have enough air when yer ful out on RPM its just gettin there that ya dont have enough soon enough....................if ya want that snappy quickness then ya prolly need to go twins

 

twins and 2 to 230 hp injectors will be soon. i will be just adding a bigger turbo to mine tho

 

what's your boost at? might you have a boost leak that's preventing full boost? you "should" be seeing 40-50psi from that silver 62..... i know on my HTT 64/71/14 it smiked like crazy and egt's were way out of control at 40psi but i put in the boost elbow and upped it to 52psi and the smoke cleared to a haze and the egt's were then amnagable with my right foot....

 

i can really only hit 35 or so. How do you check for leaks with a manual tranny? Ive checked the elbows and fittings. everything "looks" ok and the clamps are tight.

 

what you'll have to do is make plugs and pressurize from the turbo inlet to the cold pipe coming out of the intercooler. pressure check it and use soapy water to see leaks. obviously the motor isn't defuling since it's smoking like a freight train (ie an overboost situation as the box should have a boost fooler built in).... check all those connections and if those aren't leaking either get a boost elbow and install it or get a pair of vicegrips and clamp off the wastegate hose (for a short trip down the road) and see if it'll build more than 35pounds. that turbo aught to easily hit 45-50 w/o breaking a sweat......

 

Have to build a tester from PVC pipe. A 3 inch 90 degree, a 4-10 inch nipple and a cap.

Drill a hole big enough in the cap to push a replacement tire valve stem into and JB Weld it in place then glue the cap on one end of the nipple and the 90 on the other end and let it all dry.

Pull the air cleaner intake hose lose from the turbo ,leaving rubber boot in place and clamp this tester into the rubber boot. Usin an air tank or compressor pressurize the system up to about 20 psi and spray all the joints with some soapy water (dishsoap and water mixed up in a spray bottle) and any leaks will show up as air bubbles. Once that checks out then go up to whatever your highest psi is set at and do it again. Don't forget the innercooler itself.

You can use any configuration of pipe you want as long as when your done it all seals and you have a way to put air into it.

 

i used the vice grip trick with the silver bullet. still only 32 pounds. Im going to build a pressure tester and see whats going on. Cause this is just not right.