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Old Jan 27, 2016 | 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by yenkomike
hard to say whats best but you have gone faster than a lot of guys on gen 3 rods. and a teardown might show some slightly bent rods. given you have the time I think if the 5.3 is a good solid engine it might be a good expendable engine for working on the 20+ psi tune .freeing up your 6.0 for upgrades.
The tune-up has always been pretty conservative in my eyes. On my best pass I was only 17* of timing on the 15-16 lbs. and 10.8-11.0 AFR's. I've hit with 20 lbs. on the street from a roll a few times but haven't had the chance to make a pass on that setting yet.

Originally Posted by mkvamso
Controlling the boost is pretty important
Both of my turbo cars have spooled pretty damn fast, but i dont ramp in much boost until way up there.

I dont think im at max boost until over 5k rpm
There isn't much I can do with the Tru-boost controller unless I wire in the scramble boost setting which I think I may try anyway. Run the 15 lbs setting until it hits 2nd gear and then hit the scramble button to ramp it to 20 lbs.
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Old Jan 27, 2016 | 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by RedRocketZ28
The tune-up has always been pretty conservative in my eyes. On my best pass I was only 17* of timing on the 15-16 lbs. and 10.8-11.0 AFR's. I've hit with 20 lbs. on the street from a roll a few times but haven't had the chance to make a pass on that setting yet.



There isn't much I can do with the Tru-boost controller unless I wire in the scramble boost setting which I think I may try anyway. Run the 15 lbs setting until it hits 2nd gear and then hit the scramble button to ramp it to 20 lbs.
Same way i did it with my gforce controller
Stayed at x duty cycle until i pressed the button and ramped more in

You can adjust the gain way down to slow how fast it ramps in as well but theres still a good chance it piles it on too quick without trying the scramble method
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