Another EGT Question?

[Cooker]

My buddy has a 94, 5 spped and I'm trying to convince him gauges are the way to go. He say's he like to do boost, but has no use for pyro becasue he is going to leave it stock (after he said he was going to tweak the stock parts).



What kind of EGT's were you guys pulling with your stock 12 valves? with the stock exhaust too?



Thanks,

Ryan

 

[John_P]

Cooker:



When my 96' was stock the hottest I ever got it was about

1100 degrees. However, that was towing my racing trailer

in the mountains on 4-5% grades. The truck was low on

power back then (mine was a dog new) and I was constantly

"in the carpet" with the accelerator! I would not trade the

power I have now for the way it was back then. But... .....

no EGT problems either. (at least on my truck)



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John_P

 

[RBrunson]

RBrunson

Like John_P mine would hit 1100 max towing a 29' TT up steep grades, with slight mods it still is 1100 max.

 

[Dkevdog]

Originally posted by Cooker

[B has no use for pyro becasue he is going to leave it stock (after he said he was going to tweak the stock parts).



[/B]

He will not leave it stock once he starts playing around- tell him to get the EGT gauge. Before my mods I don't know... ... . guages went in along with the mods. Now, without pulling a trailer but with a couple thousand in back I can get to about 1200 under heavy acceleration. The Banks Twin Ram dropped my average EGT by about 150. But tell your buddy to get the guage- can't go wrong with one.



Kev

 

[BFaoro]

egt

I have a 96 club cab, 3. 54 rear end Dana 80 4X4 all stock with gauges. Pulling a 20' stock trailer with a 14,500 GVWR on the hills I can push it to 1100 degrees with a max of 23 pounds of boost. This temp is with only about 1800 pounds in the trailer, I haven't had to haul a full load of cows ... yet !! Of course the outside temp is 98 and in Colorado the hills are just tiny

 

[JJW_ND]

If you play it can get to hot with stock parts!

With my 96 5sp, I could get to about 1150 maybe 1200 on hard pulls up hill when I was completely stock (pump wise) but with K&N filter.



I had a Cummins shop in IN adjust the pump but add NO NEW PARTS. It would peg my 1500 degree gauge in 5th only when at 2700 rpms on up.



Even with a stock truck, a plugged CAT could raise EGTS. If one starts slidinng fuel plates you WILL get warm enough to wish you had gauges.



If a truck is left stock (never tamper with any breakoff screwws) I doudt one would have a problem!



jjw

ND

 

[gitchesum]

A little warining to the guys running with the stock plate slid forward. I was racing a gasser the other day and looked over at the gauge. PEGGED, at over 1500. . Time to back out. Even with slight mods, you can really heat these things up. I was also running 35lbs of boost.



BTW, I did beat him, he tried to get a run on me from 100 yards back. Couldn't hang with the Cummins.

 

[SMorneau]

After having both a pre-turbo and manifold EGT gauge I would say to do both. Hot shuts downs should be avoided at all cost and the post turbo EGT does not track the manifold temp very well. EGTs in the manifold can spike up faster than the tach upon appliction of power at anything over about 2,400 RPM.



If I hadn't already had an ISSPRO pryro in the elbow after the turbo I would have leaned really hard toward the SPA digital dual gauge and got both in one unit. I got the next best thing the color coded ISSPRO gauge for the manifold and it has worked really nice. It is very easy to get a reading at a glance and you can easily judge how fast it is rising. ISSPRO make a high temperature TC probe that should be used in the manifold.



The biggest thing about the gauges for any truck, stock or not, is the ability to determine the safety of your engine. If you have a problem, how will you have any clue if it is safe to "limp" home? Something as simple as a blown intercooler connection could be deadly if ignored. Even if you know, how will you instruct your wife or another driver how to "know"?



I keep running into the Ford guys who get "a chip" and think they know everything. Most don't know anything about their EGTs and think gauges are for some kind cab dress-up project. It's really very amusing to explain to them they should know about things like EGTs and such.



I think I would forget adjusting the stock plate. I just got back from my first trip after installing a TST plate and got my best mileage ever, over 21 mpg.

 

[R.ebel]

When it was stock, my '97 would generate temps slightly above 1200*F when pulling hard in 5th (80+mph). I believe my hometown elevation of 6000' slightly raised the egt's.

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