Cheap Prado LJ78 FS

[GTSSportCoupe]

Under 14.5 psi you don't truly need an intercooler. It will help but you can tune it accordingly.
But yes an intercooler will help and give you more power.

If you tune a diesel running say 14.5 psi to 1200deg F on a pyro pre turbo without an intercooler in comparison to the exact same setup with an intercooler they are running safe parameters. Obviously the one with the intercooler will have more power though but it will be running just as hot.

Drive by the pyro, or your right foot will kill the engine due to high egts.

I'm familiar with these rule's of thumb, but the L seem to have a lower heat tolerance than the HD diesels which is why I mentioned an intercooler. The CT20 also produces some pretty high intake temps even at moderate boost.

 

[Diesel Cruiserman]

I'm familiar with these rule's of thumb, but the L seem to have a lower heat tolerance than the HD diesels which is why I mentioned an intercooler. The CT20 also produces some pretty high intake temps even at moderate boost.

Factory boost on this baby, piro was in the vehicle and I thought he made sure it never exceeded bad numbers...

Could be something simple?

 

[ForealBoreal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfzRTk5IQmc

I told him to do this. He said it was not pretty.
What do you set your lj's egt to?

 

[GTSSportCoupe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfzRTk5IQmc

I told him to do this. He said it was not pretty.
What do you set your lj's egt to?

At the moment my probe is post turbo. I will move the probe to pre turbo when I redo my dump pipe and exhaust soon. I have it tuned such that it is almost always under 600F (town/highway). Fully loaded going up mountain passes on the highway I do not allow it to exceed 1000F max. I have to work it hard to get the temps up. She runs well this way and I've had no problems thus far. But my truck does not seem to be the norm as far as 2lte's go. The tuning difference from when I bought it is massive. Originally I could get it up to 1000F in town taking off from a red light to 50km/h, haha!