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Old 11-19-05, 10:38 PM   #3
coldtaco
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Now for the rest of the story. First drive I blew off a silicone connector maybe half mile down the road. Opened the hood to see what happend and noticed the afformentioned water connection for the turbo cooling leaking real bad. Found a hose come off of one of the tubing. So drove back to the garage and fabed up a gasket for the water leak and reset all the silicone conections. left again for home and checked everything at the gas station to fill up for drive home. I turned in the manuel boost controller a little since I was only getting about 4psi max. Everything was still together under the hood and no water leak.
After adjusting the manuel boost controller, I was now getting about 10psi max boost, about 1in more than before.
Driving steady at 55mph on flat ground, boost was about 4psi and EGT about 375. With a little incline, EGT would creep up to about 400. I think before at cruise I would get about 500 on the EGT. The highest EGT I got was 600 with rpm at about 1700 and alot of throttle, boost about 4psi. The one dry hill I found I was able to put the pedle down firmly and got 10psi boost and still about 500EGT. Before at about 9psi on a good hill climg I would get easy 900EGT. I filled up tonight at about 230mi. for the trip home and got 24mpg, the best I have gotten yet, that with half tank of #1 and #2 diesel with a squirt of magic diesel alixier. I drove no faster than 55mph and had alot of 40-45mph in the curves. Had a stretch of about 4mi that I drove about 25mph in 4hi due to rain on ice.
Tomorrow I will take all the tubing apart again and scuff up the ends that the silicone connectors will be seated on to try and get better sealing. I used polished aluminum tubing in 2.5in dia. Stupid idea to use polished tubing with silicone connectors. Looks pretty though.
Anyway, I think I will leave the power where it's at till spring when we get dry roads again and can see the exhaust and see about increasing boost some more and probably fuel.
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