i installed my new guages this evening

the boost gauge went very smoothly thanks to Genos boost bolt

tapping the manifold for the pyrometer on the other hand

i read several posts on this board and have seen some installed on my buddie's trucks. i decided to drop the housing and place a piece of carboard over the hole, i smeared the carboard with heavy grease to catch anything that would fall inside the manifold

as i started to drill the pilot hole i noticed that the housing seemed to have a magnetic charge (has anyone else noticed this?) it was grabbing the particles as they fell and pulling them into the manifold, very wierd

i set my own magnet in the fall path of the shavings and was able to collect them that way.

i drilled and tapped the manifold just fine, i used heavy grease on the drill and tap to collect as many shavings as possible as the were made

i was not prepared for all the shavings that were stuck in the grease on my cardboard

i know some were scraped off into the manifold as i removed it, i sucked out the hole and the gasket with a heavy duty shop vac.

some of the posts here say to run the truck and allow the shavings to just blow thourgh the exhaust before firing the turbo. that is what i did and everything seems to be fine but man that made me uneasy

what do you guys think? should it be ok or am i screwed?

 

your good to go,, you have gone above and beyond. Enjoy those guages

Kevin

 

man i hope so

i am goin got run stock for a day or so to get a benchmark for egt and boost before adding my new xzt

 

LEt me know if you would what your egts are like mine seem high with superchips.

 

What are your egt's with the SC module and at what setting?

 

I am watching this one, I don't have an EGT yet.

 

I did my pyrometer with the truck running. No problems here.

 

You're gonna find the xzt barely raises your egts. And as a matter of fact it drops them way quicker before shutdown. Don't know much about superchips but if its heavy on duration, you're gonna see high egt's. And like the others say, you are golden as far as drilling your sender. That manifold is darn thick, isn't it...