I am brand new to this forum and I can say that I am impressed with what I see so far as far as the information that I have gathered from this page. This is what I have done so far to my truck. I got the truck from my dad and put a new interior in it, new paint, brakes (lifetime warrenty), axle fluid change, transmission fluid+filter change, oil+ filter change, straight piped the cat, put a ranch hand rear bumper on the back, flushed the cooling system, put new glow plugs, and relay in it, new starter, new fuel filter, new K@N intake (homemade). I just bought a banks downpipe on e-bay for 130 bucks and I am going to get a muffler shop put it in. I got quoted $50 so that is fine. I have been reading about the 10K mod and I think I want to do that. One question I have is how bad does it make the engine idle. Also I forgot to ask one more thing. I shimmed the fpr like I read about on here and it was at 87psi so I took out the BB, and it is at 60psi without the BB. What do you think is the better reading? Also is there anything that I am missing for cheap reasonable gains?
You sound like you are well on your way! Of course, the good folks here can "help" you spend all of your money [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/phoney.gif[/img] For the 10k mod, you can always use a potentiometer and a fixed resistor to make a variable version (lots of past posts on this and some very recently). Your fuel pressure at 87 psi should be okay, although I think I wuld shoot for about 75 (try a 4-40 socket head cap screw ... you can file the head if needed to lower the pressure). You can try finding the old posts on the MAP simulator to play with. Although not necessarily inexpensive, gauges are a very good thing to add. Cheers!
Something that probably should be allowed for in your mod budget is a set of gauges. Pyro for sure, and the rest if you can afford it (trans temp and boost.) I was amazed at what exhaust temps I could hit stock pulling a very light travel trailer. Without gauges I would have been oblivious. Just a thought.
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