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Old 10-25-2011, 10:19 PM
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i have a 2002 7.3 f-350 SRW with stock turbo, cold air intake 4" with 5" tip going to put a 8" tip on it also strait piped. I also have an edge juice. how can i have a super fast truck that gets good mpg but will puff out the smoke and burn rubber??im 16 and kinda on a bugget i also plow snow with the truck and its a daily driver so if u could help me out with your info and also new with the diesel so i may need help with understanding the products.
 
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You need to get some gauges before you add anything more to the truck.

So you have intake, exhaust and a ICP mod right now, which will put you at about 240RWHP...

You can remove the edge juice and install a 6 pos chip which can put you right near 300RWHP.

After that point it goes to injectors and turbo changes.
 
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Old 10-26-2011, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by 7.3-POWER-STROKER
i have a 2002 7.3 f-350 SRW with stock turbo, cold air intake 4" with 5" tip going to put a 8" tip on it also strait piped. I also have an edge juice. how can i have a super fast truck that gets good mpg but will puff out the smoke and burn rubber??im 16 and kinda on a bugget i also plow snow with the truck and its a daily driver so if u could help me out with your info and also new with the diesel so i may need help with understanding the products.
First off you need to understand that smoke doesn't equal power. Smoke is wasted fuel. Smoke will get you worse MPGs... A super fast truck will cost you about 15k dollars... A good driver which is all you need at 16 can be had with some custom tunes and gauges... Less than a thousand dollars. With some custom tunes, you can get around 300hp...
 
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what type of gauges do you perfure???
 
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Old 10-26-2011, 06:38 PM
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ISSPRO is the best. CSIPSD has a link in his sig. click on the one that says guage *****. LOL
 
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are the GlowShift 7 Color Series Gauges any good??? how many would i need? i was thinking about buying these with the 3 pod dash kit.
 
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I do not like the Glow Shift gauges myself, I think they look like cheap ricer crap...

Isspro is what I recomend for a quality gauge.

You need at least a Pyro, Boost and Trans temp, Fuel pressure is always a good forth.
 
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where do u recomend i buy them from?
 
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Riff Raff has good prices and is a great vendor...

We have lots of good vendors on this site, post up in the request a quote section and see what you get.
 
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I have an late 99.in regards to fuel mileage I was getting 10-11 in the city at 2000 rpms. I have a post on here about it but just replacing the oil an filter, fuel filter and doing 6637 mod and tire rotation with balance and brake check for Bo dragging I'm gettin prolly 15-18 as of now and I got autometer z series gauges and my ts 6 position tune by pho is in the mail from Trey@cowboy diesel. I can't wait for it.but like these more knowlegabld guys said get your gauges first before anything and sell the edge their junk compared to ts 6 position and more than likely you have canned tunes so not the full potential of the programmer. Good luck.
 


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