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The photos below show in this order: Stock 1997 standard transmission 215hp plate, TST #5, home ground #10, TST #8.
I ground a stock plate to a sorta, 10 profile. I think it pulls about as strong as the #5 I was running, then it defuels a bit. Egt's are down but since I didn't do a before and after test I can't really qualify how much, the hope is it'll fuel less on the upper end making for a better towing plate.
I've been running TST plates for the last 200K miles and they've done what I wanted and what TST claimed. I'm not a huge advocate of bench grinder copies and really don't expect mine to be a good as the real thing. All that said once I get my preboost fuel issues worked out and have a bit more time to invest in the truck I may well order the real deal #10 from TST.
The wheel on my bench grinder was two wide to shape things in an exact copy so I resorted to a dremel to clean things up and do a bit of additional shaping. Time will tell how well it works.
If anyone has a critique of my #10 copy, please speak up.
I ground a stock plate to a sorta, 10 profile. I think it pulls about as strong as the #5 I was running, then it defuels a bit. Egt's are down but since I didn't do a before and after test I can't really qualify how much, the hope is it'll fuel less on the upper end making for a better towing plate.
I've been running TST plates for the last 200K miles and they've done what I wanted and what TST claimed. I'm not a huge advocate of bench grinder copies and really don't expect mine to be a good as the real thing. All that said once I get my preboost fuel issues worked out and have a bit more time to invest in the truck I may well order the real deal #10 from TST.
The wheel on my bench grinder was two wide to shape things in an exact copy so I resorted to a dremel to clean things up and do a bit of additional shaping. Time will tell how well it works.
If anyone has a critique of my #10 copy, please speak up.
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