added a couple stickers to my truck last week.

Played tug of war with about 15k pounds worth of trash compactor, in a retirement community.... it had blown out wheels, so it was really fun pushing it back in... 4 minutes of tugging, pushing, tire smoking, turbo whining Smokey work. The crowd went wild when I finally got it in! One of the elders came up to me and said “that’s the best show I’ve seen since my honeymoon in 1958”

I just checked the lift pump. I’m now thinking of turning the pre-boost fueling screw clockwise half a turn to see what that does. I just want to try and get the turbos to spoil a little faster as sometimes I get through an intersection before it spoils. I don’t want to do this for a ton of smoke, just a tiny bit more power. I also don’t want to have egts through the roof as I don’t yet have gauges. I’m going to have to order those one at a time. I’ll order the pyro first with a 3 gauge pillar pod (glowshift), and an ISSPRO pyro with color coding for when my dad borrows the truck. Will half a turn make my egts crazy? Right now it is tuned very conservatively by an experienced mechanic on these trucks. I’m guessing egts are low as it barely hazes when I punch it.

I don’t have anything against GlowShift gauges, but I was planning on just getting their pillar pod that holds 3 gauges and then getting ISSPRO gauges. I was going to get Autometer gauges at first, but then was going to get GlowShifts to save some money. I’ve also decided the gauges are about the same. Most of the time people don’t have problems with any of them. Then you get on here where there are thousands of people and they say that they are all junk between everybody. I simply like the ISSPRO EV2 gauges because the pyro can be acquired with color coding for the temperature. The GlowShifts are cool since you can change color, but they don’t offer the color coding. I don’t think my dad knows that you want to start letting off the go pedal at 1200 if you have the probe pre-turbo, so I figure the color coding on the ISSPROs is probably a good idea for me. They are a little more money, but such is life.

From that I would get the pod and the pyro. Then I would save up for a trans temp gauge. After that I would get a fuel pressure and eventually a tach. All from ISSPRO just so they match. Again, I have nothing against any of the brands other than I like the color coding available in the ISSPRO pyro. I wish the Autometers had led lighting without getting a white gauge face too. All should have a color coded pyro as an option in my opinion.

Anywho, anyone have an idea of how much half a turn on the pre-boost screw would affect my egts? I’m not doing this for smoke (not really into that), but simply to make it so the turbo spools a little faster. Kind of annoying to be flooring it trying to clear an intersection and THEN have the turbo spool after you’ve cleared it hoping you make it. Not going for smoke, just a little more drive ability.

P.S. Notice how much I repeated the fact I’m not going for a bunch of smoke? In fact, I would be happy with zero smoke. That just means efficiency. Here I go again repeating it. Must mean it is important. I hate people making their trucks pour out smoke like a train. Makes the green freaks whine to the EPA and put pointless systems on the new trucks

Maybe I better wait. I have to go up some pretty steep hills to get home from town. My truck has a hard time doing 65 up some of the hills so I sometimes find my foot on the floor without realizing it when I try to keep the speed with the flow of traffic. On top of that, today on the way home from school I set the cruise at the speed limit (65) and the cruise control had the pedal glued to the floor and then had the throttle cable pushed through into the cab past the pedal another 1/2 inch or so. Hopefully it isn’t getting too hot doing that. Truck doesn’t seem to be revving too much when going down the highway at the said speed either, so not sure what the deal is. I wish it was a manual so I had a little more control and more gears to choose from.

What size would my exhaust housing be with an hx35? It’s just a stock hx35