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Your pistons are made of aluminum, which starts to melt at about 1250*, but your pistons are also being cooled by oil cooling jets that spray the bottom of the piston. Also, air temp (EGT) and material temps are two differant things.
1250* sustanined is a good red line to keep. 10-20-30 seconds above that will not cause your motor to blow up. You have to think of heat soak, if your lugging a trailer for hours at 1100-1200 degrees and the jump to pass someone, its going to take a lot less time to do damage then if you were sitting in traffice at 500-600* and go to pass someone.
14-18 is about normal boost numbers for a stock truck. Throw a mild tune and 20-25 is normal, a hot tune will show 25-30 or more on stock injectors. You need a overboost regulator from a company like ITP Diesel, it will keep your MAP sensor from seeing above 22psi (which then trys to defuel the truck).
Bottom line I think you have a bad gauge.
1250* sustanined is a good red line to keep. 10-20-30 seconds above that will not cause your motor to blow up. You have to think of heat soak, if your lugging a trailer for hours at 1100-1200 degrees and the jump to pass someone, its going to take a lot less time to do damage then if you were sitting in traffice at 500-600* and go to pass someone.
14-18 is about normal boost numbers for a stock truck. Throw a mild tune and 20-25 is normal, a hot tune will show 25-30 or more on stock injectors. You need a overboost regulator from a company like ITP Diesel, it will keep your MAP sensor from seeing above 22psi (which then trys to defuel the truck).
Bottom line I think you have a bad gauge.
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