Truck is looking AWESOME, Matt

 

Been having some issues with boostane, gonna give a little of this a shot and we’ll see how it does.

 

curious what for issue did you run into using boostane? I also use boostane and just making sure it's safe to use

 

Here’s a little video explaining my mods.

 

Road grime is next level!

Going to be picking up a used set of turbos to send off to CRP in the next few days hopefully! Can’t wait to get that process started!!

 

Road grime is next level!...

My eyes... my eyes... I'm blind! I'm sure that's a movie line somewhere.

I'm blinded! My eyes!

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Yeah, that's not the one I'm thinking of but it's close.

 

Jus grime? Over here it's snowmelt and salt white. Wont see a black asphalt road till the spring rain flushes it all off.
Enjoyed the Youtube video, thanks! KM

 

Jus grime? Over here it's snowmelt and salt white. Wont see a black asphalt road till the spring rain flushes it all off.
Enjoyed the Youtube video, thanks! KM

Well it’s actually a bunch of sand mixed with water and grime. They put sand on the roads up here.
Glad you enjoyed it!

 

The video is just sooo ... Sweet
Just ribbin ya. I enjoyed it.

 

The video is just sooo ... Sweet
Just ribbin ya. I enjoyed it.

Lol, well it was one of my first videos where I had to explain everything. I said a lot of ums haha

 

Your video was just fine, except it made me feel old. Nothing your doing,.... just that you ain't. I have to remind myself that it's not just geezers driving these.

 

Yeah that’s true lol I’m only 22. Not the youngest on the forum tho. There’s another dude who’s 17 almost 18 😮

 

Little update for you guys.

Ordered a used set of turbochargers for a really good deal. 300$ for Both. They have 75k miles on them, and no rust or anything.

once I receive them I will clean them up, remove the oil lines and coolant lines and then I will ship them off to CRP engineering!

doing it this way allows me to keep my stock turbos so that if I ever wanted to swap them back on and sell the CRPs I can.

 

Alright guys, here’s the turbos. I am a little concerned about the deposits in the exhaust outlet as shown in one of my pictures, and the corrosion on the cores. But for the price I got them for I can’t complain. I will have to replace the wastegates, since the vacuum barb got bent in shipping (dude packaged them so poorly) and I will be ditching all the feed/drain tubes. The turbos on my truck now were recently removed for my cylinder head install and so they have all new lines and parts. I am going to clean these up tonight and try to make a parts list. I will call CRP first thing Monday and then it will be time to order up the stage 2s for the “ship your turbos in” price. Can’t wait to begin the process.

 

Congrats Matt !

 

Thanks. They were much dirtier than I thought. Definitely gonna need new cores, especially since when I took the screw out holding one of the feed lines in, it broke off inside, and inside the coolant side, it is rusted to heck in there. Also, I accidentally cracked the core (not gonna say how) but they were so weakened by all the coolant that spilled all over I am not surprised. Still cheaper than new turbos, so I can’t complain.

 

Just a little update…
Shipped the turbos off to CRP yesterday. They should get them next week. Paid them the big bucks and can’t wait to start cranking up the horsepower!
They cleaned up nicely I think! CRP will probably media blast them anyway, but heck, I had to satisfy my own interest on how these turbos look inside haha

 

Thought I’d throw a picture of this beauty up here for no reason other than she’s eye candy to me… 😁

 

Good enough reason! KM

 

Well guys, my long awaited dream has come to fruition. Received the stage 2s and my box of parts from Tasca all in one day while I was up skiing. Got back and got to work on the truck. It was so time consuming just getting setup, gawking at the turbos, jacking the truck up, removing the wheels and wheel well liners. Removing all the plumbing, undoing the downpipe nuts and pushing it back just enough to let the downpipe/turbo gasket fall out and draining the dang coolant. But, soon I was removing the lines for the turbo, replaced all the seals that I needed to, (I didn’t end up taking some of the lines off of the head, I just left them be. But all the connections to the turbo got brand new seals, and I did replace the oil line with the non serviceable filter. All in all it is going really well, I was able to install the driver side turbo. Haven’t moved to the passenger side yet, but so far so good, and I haven’t broken anything.

here’s a couple photos of the turbos and project so far. I am extremely impressed with how beautiful the turbos got cleaned up, CRP did a wonderful job.

 

Dude, I am so jealous.......... eventually turbo upgrades will be on my list...... cant wait to see and hear your thoughts and gains

 

Well guys… I finished her up tonight! Did the passenger side turbo, also changed the oil while I was at it, filled up the coolant, put all the plumbing back in, and started her up! Burned off some packing oil on the turbos and I watched for leaks before I put the wheel liners and wheels back on. I was very surprised at how easy the downpipe was to deal with, definitely one of the easier things actually. Everything looked good. Took her for a spin and holy macaroni, these turbos are sooooo loud compared to the old ones. I gave it a tiny bit of gas and my jaw about hit the floor, then I squealed with excitement. I’m on my tune that I’ve been on for a while now, got the go ahead from Brett. We’ll start logging from here. I went out on the highway, but I didn’t give it much gas. I could hear those snails spooling up to whazoo under there, even in higher rpm. After my drive I checked for leaks, none. Very happy. I can’t wait to see what this thing has in it now!

 

got you thanks

 

Just think how well it'll run when ya wash the "grime" off and drop all that weight!
Great to her it's up to snuff. KM

 

Just a small update for you guys.

I am just drooling over the spooling noise from these turbos. The stock 2.7 turbos are actually pretty quiet.

I gave the gas pedal, 64% and this baby cranked out 41.4 lb/min (I was only getting 31-32 lb/min on the same tune with stock turbos)

At 5800 rpm it’s making 18 psi on this tune. Quite a huge difference since on the stock turbos it was making 8 or 9 psi at redline.

Sending the log off to Brett. Let’s see what he can do!


(Also, I’m like the only guy who has done anything like this on the 2.7L on the forums right?)

 

R U sure the stock turbos only make 9 psi boost ? My completely stock 3.5 makes 15, not tuned.

 

Impressed with your rate of progress and tenacity. Excited for you man! Can’t wait to see where this goes. [emoji897]

 

Thanks! Me too!

 

Another update… took it for a drive tonight, it punched out 43.2 lb/min with 70% throttle and from about 3000 rpm to 5800 rpm it’s holding around 20 psi solid. I never saw boost go lower than 18.9 psi during the pull.

so I guess my next question is, how much will this thing do?

 

OK that makes more sense LOL

 

Yeah. Let me be more specific now that I’ve done some logs,
Stock turbos were around 7-9 psi at 6200 rpm
Stage 2 turbos are at 15-17 psi at 6200 rpm
But they are still blowing 20 psi at 5500-5800 rpm which is nuts.

 

Couple more things I want to mention…

First of all, the audible knock that you guys have heard me talk about non stop for the past few months is gone.
What actually was causing it?
The seals in the stock turbos were going bad and leaking lots of oil Into the charge pipes.

Also, I absolutely love the way this truck drives now. It doesn’t feel like it’s lost it’s low end torque, but it noticeably spools up slower. I wouldn’t say they have lag necessarily, because I still have good torque, but boost doesn’t really start kicking in till around 2500 rpm. It takes like .20 - 1 psi to get off the line decently whereas before it would take 3 or 4 psi. Power and boost is later on in the rpm range, and I really like that, because the truck drives like a normal truck, but if you step on it, the power and torque come on gradually till it sets you in the seat very hard. I really like it. Ok, I’ll shut up now. I’ll post more updates as the tuning goes forward.

 

The loss of low end is my reservation on bigger turbos. But I’m glad you made the distinction between “turbo lag” and availability of torque.

I’m fine moving the torque curve up in the range a bit as long as it’s linear.

What I don’t want is a WRX-style turbo on/off switch via throttle.

 

The loss of low end is my reservation on bigger turbos. But I’m glad you made the distinction between “turbo lag” and availability of torque.

I’m fine moving the torque curve up in the range a bit as long as it’s linear.

What I don’t want is a WRX-style turbo on/off switch via throttle.

Yeah, the truck gets off the line just as hard as it did before, if not harder, but it doesn’t spool up fully till much later in the rpm range. My old turbos would be already very spooled up off the line. I really dig it though, because later “full spool” means more power up top and more mid range power. It was very lacking in top end power before. My old turbos kinda crapped out in high rpm.

 

Matt,

Just because it's not full spool doesn't mean the new turbos aren't pushing the same amount of air. Does that make sense?

 

Yeah, you’re right. It’s kinda complicated to explain. I’m just saying that these turbos are in vacuum at times when my old turbos were in boost. It’s just amazing. My stock turbos were fully spooled at 2200 rpm, but these aren’t fully spooled till like I wanna say 3000 rpm. But before it gets to 3000 rpm, the power doesn’t feel less than the stock turbos it actually feels even more powerful. Also, the truck doesn’t fall on its face after 4700 rpm. It just keeps pulling hard all they way to 6200 rpm. Quite amazing.

 

Alright, here’s a pull. I think this was 65% throttle. You guys see the dark blue steady line across the bottom during the pull and at the end it jumps way up? Well that’s turbo wastegate percentage. So during the entire pull, the wastegates are completely closed at 0%(2.7 is the inverse of the 3.5, when the 3.5L says 0% that means the wastegate is wide open) So doesn’t that mean I have room for more power theoretically?