CPP 7x10's and a roadtrip w/ VIDS!!
Another CPP thread. LOL
I installed a set of the new 7x10's (150hp flavor) at Xmas. Turbo spooled faster over the rv's I had in it. It will smoke if you want it. but took a couple minutes to relearn driving. At least two songs on the radio's worth.
Power is nice now. Real strong feeling. No chance to dyno but I will. So far I have always dyno'd after each upgrade. I like to see the improvements. Throttle is'nt really any more sensitive then before. WOT it hit about 36-37 psi and just over 1100 egts. Stab and steer! no gauge watching needed.
Oh this is still with no box. Only a smarty and the 62/65/12 turbo. Cant wait for a box. Been told should hit 500hp.
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Roadtrip:
I just got back from a roadtrip from WA to AZ and back. Had to tow my car hauler with our 70 challenger and the old D70 out of my truck on it. Carhauler way 1800, Challenger maybe 4000 and 200ish for the rear. Odd crap in the car and truck, maybe 500lbs, so around 6500lbs?
I ran down there empty, with the smarty on sw3, tq3/tim4/dur1 Averaging 70-75 mph and a lot of 80mph runs. down through US 93 from twin falls, id to phoenix Az through vegas. mpg was in the 18-18.5 range. I have 3.5 gears with 265/75/16. Its 2wd. When rolling along, add some throttle and turbo lits NOW and off we go. Passing on the 2 lane roads was fun! No downshifting either load the engine smokes(on purpose of course) and clears quickly. Easily hit 100mph staying on it passing a semi. Right before I got down to AZ I changed the duration to 4. mpg went up. best I saw over 22mpg. Never hit that before.
Now FWIW driving through the desert I always top off when I hit a town. Didnt have my 100gal aux tank with me. Honestly a 100 gal semi in the back for the long roadtrips. So alot of the fillups were about 200-300 miles. I tried to fill up the same amount. I filled it by sight. High enough in the filler neck. Trying to make it consistient between tanks. After the duration high 18-19mpg were more common. Would have thought the longer duration hurt mileage? It hurt the feel of the power however
Truck seemed slugish when I dropped the duration down. Came back with it back on 4. Cruising egts, at spped was around 650 at 4.5ish psi
Once the trailer was hooked up, power was nice, easily keep up and pull ahead of normal traffic flow with out much smoke. really only a haze. More noticable at nite. But it will roll coal if I want it. I have to look at the fuel reciepts for towing mileage. IIRC it was about 14. Again going around 70mph. I did have to pass some yahoo doing 20 under.
Floored it took off ease off the throttle and was way ahead of them. could still see the smoke cloud. Felt sorry for the people following me. oops :S: That was with the trailer. No issues going around. EGT's will hit 1300+ with the trailer. With some of the hills, just kept the rpms up and it stayed cool. 900 range. Cruising at speed around 800 and 6ish psi
One thing I did notice is that know the egts, hit just under 1300 when empty, when I was down in the warmer areas. Guess ambient air temp has that much of an effect? Boost dropped to, but power didnt appear to.
Overall I love these injectors. Clean injectors. for normal towing they would work no issues. Havent got to do any of my "normal" towing, which is usually when we move and I end up GCVW of 24K
meaning a trailer of around 15K. I know I know.....:S:
So I am not stopping for my quest for power, so next is a box, then the S475. 600+hp anyone?
Jamie sorry for not reporting back as often on the injectors, but figured this roadtrip would be a good quick 3000 mile test. Oh the cores are in the mail. Sorry for the delay in em, but was afraid I might have picked up that infamous hitch hiker Murphy. I always keep the old good parts around after new installs just incase. So they are on their way back.
Thanks again! :thumbsup:
I have a few cell phone vids of 0-100 runs. I'll post em when I get home.
(Hes a republican!!!
