Guys, I'm in a quandry! Here's the situation:
I was just about ready to bite the bullet & upgrade my stock injectors to DD2's. My truck is stock except for an Edge EZ, I do have gauges (Westach combo boost/egt), but still have the stock airbox/filter, and exhaust. My plan was to monitor my egt's, if things were getting uncomfortably warm with the injectors, I thought I would try a less restrictive air filter (not sure which one) to see if that cools her down enough. If not, I would ditch my stock exhaust.
I was hoping I would be OK egt wise without changing anything on the intake/exhaust at this time, I plan to do so eventually, but can't see the harm in trying the injectors first. If it's too hot, at least I know what to do.
That was my plan until I read in another post a few days ago where Ted J. advised a guy not to go beyond Bosch 275 RV's or DD/BD stage 1's unless he was working the truck hard all the time. Ted was concerned about ring wash, oil dilution, etc. from the extra fuel. Lord knows, I certainly defer to Ted's knowledge and experience when it comes to hot-rodding diesel's, but that post was the first I had heard about this particular problem with stage 2 injectors. I searched this morning, and could not find the post I am referring to, so maybe I am misunderstanding/misinterpreting something.
What is the consensus among the experts? Are stage 2 injectors too much on a truck that spends the majority of it's time running empty?
PS: I know I'll really have to take it easy on my stock clutch untill I'm ready to upgrade to a South Bend.
I was just about ready to bite the bullet & upgrade my stock injectors to DD2's. My truck is stock except for an Edge EZ, I do have gauges (Westach combo boost/egt), but still have the stock airbox/filter, and exhaust. My plan was to monitor my egt's, if things were getting uncomfortably warm with the injectors, I thought I would try a less restrictive air filter (not sure which one) to see if that cools her down enough. If not, I would ditch my stock exhaust.
I was hoping I would be OK egt wise without changing anything on the intake/exhaust at this time, I plan to do so eventually, but can't see the harm in trying the injectors first. If it's too hot, at least I know what to do.
That was my plan until I read in another post a few days ago where Ted J. advised a guy not to go beyond Bosch 275 RV's or DD/BD stage 1's unless he was working the truck hard all the time. Ted was concerned about ring wash, oil dilution, etc. from the extra fuel. Lord knows, I certainly defer to Ted's knowledge and experience when it comes to hot-rodding diesel's, but that post was the first I had heard about this particular problem with stage 2 injectors. I searched this morning, and could not find the post I am referring to, so maybe I am misunderstanding/misinterpreting something.
What is the consensus among the experts? Are stage 2 injectors too much on a truck that spends the majority of it's time running empty?
PS: I know I'll really have to take it easy on my stock clutch untill I'm ready to upgrade to a South Bend.