How much Boost?
- Thread starter jysty
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Stangbeater
How bout it?
You need to give your ty a tune up, change the fuel filter, plugs, wires, cap and rotor. Then get a laptop for Diacom or Datamaster. Then hook it up to your truck to see how it is running. Then you can raise the boost.
InvisiBill
Active member
What he said. There are trucks running 25psi or more, and there are trucks that have blown the engine on stock boost (~15psi). How much boost your specific setup can handle depends on how well it's running. Once you've figured that out, you can see how it handles more boost.
FYI, the stock turbo gets out of its efficiency range a little over stock boost levels. When you get up around 19 or 20 psi, it's making so much heat that it cancels out the extra boost, and can even make it slower. Regardless of everything else, you probably won't want to run more than 18 or 19psi on the stock turbo.
FYI, the stock turbo gets out of its efficiency range a little over stock boost levels. When you get up around 19 or 20 psi, it's making so much heat that it cancels out the extra boost, and can even make it slower. Regardless of everything else, you probably won't want to run more than 18 or 19psi on the stock turbo.