I am building a truck based around the ON3 Twin Kit with their intercooler and will test its capabilities and set backs. I have done all the work so far on the truck and will list updates as I increase the power of the truck. I have not contacted ON3 regarding this or have I taken any endorsements for what I am doing. My opinion can remain unbiased.
The truck has a very quick spool as it sits now. I was running roughly 51lbs of boost with the smarty turned up but have slowly decreased down to around 45. The 51 was made before adding ON3's intercooler so possibly that could of lowered it if there is more space or my injectors could be subject. I was seeing around 22 - 24 mpg as a DD around town when I am not hauling with the Smarty TNT on 8. EGT's do not go over 1400 even with my foot to the floor. I have been hauling with the catcher software on 7 and haven't seen anything over 1200 and that was a several mile climb into State College, PA with roughly an 18k loaded trailer. Held around 30psi in 3rd gear at 55mph quite easily up the climb.
The ON3 kit is supposed to come with all the pieces necessary to install the turbos while retaining the stock (he351) turbo in factory position. The only setbacks I encountered with the kit are:
1) The 4" flex pipe sent to hook up to the factory exhaust was 4" OD and not ID and did not slide over the 4" exhaust on the truck. I purchased another one for a small amount to get it on.
2) The 4 bolts that came for the snail housing were not all able to be tightened down due the small amount of space above and around the bolt. I made 2 Allen bolts at my buddies machine shop to be able to tighten it down. The 2 closest to the manifold were able to be tightened and I did not need to make all four.
3) The oil return/drain line gets a small pinch in it trying to get it out of all the piping. I did what I could to limit that but am still running it without any fabrication and it seems to be alright.
So far the kit has been on for about 4k miles and seems to be holding up. I did put in a DPS 2 piece exhaust manifold during the installation to minimize the chance for any cracking. The installation was pretty painless. Clocking the turbo was not an issue.
Pre injector and cp3 upgades with a FASS 150 Lift.
Dyno#1 @3200RPM no resistance
I had the truck Dyno'd on Friday and put down 535 973 using the stock injectors with a smarty touch running tnt on setting 8 with the wastegate setting to stock (on). Did not add timing or RP but had the torque on 3. A variable in this is possibly the life of the injectors in the truck since I do believe from some small amount of white smoke on start up and my slowly decreasing fuel mileage that I need to swap them out.
Pull#2
Upped RP and Timing to 3 and did a second pull and did 495 920.
I am ordering injectors today as well as some sort of cp3 upgrade as they are both stock. I would like to try 150s to see where the HE351 ends up until it will need replaced. I would also like to get everyone numbers on EGT's, spool time, HP, and overall driveability. I would like to have the head O-ringed and I will take the truck back to the dyno once I install the injectors/cp3 as well as adding a custom UDC tune to see where the truck ends up on TNT as well as UDC.
The truck has a very quick spool as it sits now. I was running roughly 51lbs of boost with the smarty turned up but have slowly decreased down to around 45. The 51 was made before adding ON3's intercooler so possibly that could of lowered it if there is more space or my injectors could be subject. I was seeing around 22 - 24 mpg as a DD around town when I am not hauling with the Smarty TNT on 8. EGT's do not go over 1400 even with my foot to the floor. I have been hauling with the catcher software on 7 and haven't seen anything over 1200 and that was a several mile climb into State College, PA with roughly an 18k loaded trailer. Held around 30psi in 3rd gear at 55mph quite easily up the climb.
The ON3 kit is supposed to come with all the pieces necessary to install the turbos while retaining the stock (he351) turbo in factory position. The only setbacks I encountered with the kit are:
1) The 4" flex pipe sent to hook up to the factory exhaust was 4" OD and not ID and did not slide over the 4" exhaust on the truck. I purchased another one for a small amount to get it on.
2) The 4 bolts that came for the snail housing were not all able to be tightened down due the small amount of space above and around the bolt. I made 2 Allen bolts at my buddies machine shop to be able to tighten it down. The 2 closest to the manifold were able to be tightened and I did not need to make all four.
3) The oil return/drain line gets a small pinch in it trying to get it out of all the piping. I did what I could to limit that but am still running it without any fabrication and it seems to be alright.
So far the kit has been on for about 4k miles and seems to be holding up. I did put in a DPS 2 piece exhaust manifold during the installation to minimize the chance for any cracking. The installation was pretty painless. Clocking the turbo was not an issue.
Pre injector and cp3 upgades with a FASS 150 Lift.
Dyno#1 @3200RPM no resistance
I had the truck Dyno'd on Friday and put down 535 973 using the stock injectors with a smarty touch running tnt on setting 8 with the wastegate setting to stock (on). Did not add timing or RP but had the torque on 3. A variable in this is possibly the life of the injectors in the truck since I do believe from some small amount of white smoke on start up and my slowly decreasing fuel mileage that I need to swap them out.
Pull#2
Upped RP and Timing to 3 and did a second pull and did 495 920.
I am ordering injectors today as well as some sort of cp3 upgrade as they are both stock. I would like to try 150s to see where the HE351 ends up until it will need replaced. I would also like to get everyone numbers on EGT's, spool time, HP, and overall driveability. I would like to have the head O-ringed and I will take the truck back to the dyno once I install the injectors/cp3 as well as adding a custom UDC tune to see where the truck ends up on TNT as well as UDC.

