I've been running a large air-air we build for the 80 series 5.9 and 6.7 Cummins swaps for atleast a dozen years. There's around 65 of them out there running great in the wild.
Water to air has been temperamental/unreliable/complex in the few...
100% I went through a lot of trial and error to get my system working. The last pump has been in about 5 years so knock on wood it’s pretty dialed now but yeah it was a pain in the ass.
This sounds like a fun cool build, the more every 80 looks the same the more I like the idea of things different like a sleeper. A turbo 1FZ is a fun engine with a lot of work to get it running off a stand alone, etc. An LS would also be huge...
I think the C&C kit is better in every aspect except for the actual turbo and the lines, the Pulsar turbo is a decent turbo but still a Chinese turbo that is a knockoff of more mainstream turbos but the Chinese turbos have come a long way and a...
No need to monitor IATs on a diesel, EGTs is what matters.
I hear ya on idle vs air flow, not a newb bro. Just surprised at that low of an IAT at that ambient and under that load not to mention a cooker under the hood (turbo) raising under hood...
What do you mean by a charge cooler? An intercooler is a charge cooler. Do you mean an air to water vs an air to air intercooler? Or do you mean using A/C like the Dodge Demon to further chill the water in their air to water intercooler?
A G25 turbo is going to be WAY too small. That is a 48mm compressor wheel and even Garrett only recommends it for 1.4-3.0L engines. It has been several years but I posted all of the compressor maps and where you would need to fall on the map to...