ok sounds good! thanks for the advice man def helps me a lot! Are those two pretty decent streetable setups?
hahaha ya I figured it would be a lot easier for people to read than just keep being asked whats done to the truck lol
What turbo set up?
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ok sounds good! thanks for the advice man def helps me a lot! Are those two pretty decent streetable setups?
hahaha ya I figured it would be a lot easier for people to read than just keep being asked whats done to the truck lol
Yes his def was! I liked watching his truck in action that thing was very impressive I thought! but ya I agree its sometimes hard to not have a heavy foot with power like that. im usually pretty careful with my stuff I don't beat on it a lot lol shes my baby :baby:
Originally that's what my plan was but then I had a couple turbo builders tell me not to run a s300 frame because they seem to not be as reliable as the s400 frames? idk if that's true or not that's why I came on here for some help about it.
ok sounds good thanks!
My lb7 has lasted 180,000 miles with s366 and max effort tuning. The truck has 280k on it. They can last, but if you beat on it all the time, it will pop. My truck actually went thru a built sc trans.. For you disbelievers out there. It was making enough power to eventually limp a stage V trans... It's since been upgraded to the latest gmax unit.
This is a hardcore racing forum, the guys are quick to tell you to build your motor (and with good reason) but not everyone wants to build a motor first. Bottom line, it's your truck and if you want to have fun with stock motor and push it to the limit, go ahead. I'm not gonna lie it's fun as hell to feel 600hp alive. But you have been warned
Ya if I had the money to build it I would lol but I don't, and I kind of wanted to have the fuel and air mods taken care of first so its out of the way and done, so that when it came time to do the motor I could focus on that and really try and save my money for my build. it was kind of a plan I had in my head for a while, but it would be nice to have a bit more fun before the truck was down for a couple months or how ever long it took to do lol
so you bought the kit as a single first and later on twinned over it? was the whole kit 1400 or just the charger?
Whoever told you the 300 frames dont hold up well was right, if you do a turbo swap go with a 400 frame. I would stick with a single and have it tuned for upper rpm power and limit the torque, especially down low, thats what bends rods. The twin setups make more low end torque so I'd stay away from them untill your ready to do the bottom end. I've been thinking of putting a 400 frame on my lb7 to clean up all the fuel, it smokes like a train at wot in my race tune, but im not ready to go bendy yet...
They are not as reliable or robust, that is true. However on stock fuel it would be hard to hurt one by overspeeding. I have almost 50k miles on my previously used 366 and it is still tight. Besides, a rebuild on a 300 is cheap and very easy to do. Less than $150. Daily drives very well, does great.
A 400 frame would be a good choice as well if you are planning on making big power some day.
It's just ran as a single. !400 is for the charger, I'm running a HSP Single kit.
Whoever told you the 300 frames dont hold up well was right, if you do a turbo swap go with a 400 frame. I would stick with a single and have it tuned for upper rpm power and limit the torque, especially down low, thats what bends rods. The twin setups make more low end torque so I'd stay away from them untill your ready to do the bottom end. I've been thinking of putting a 400 frame on my lb7 to clean up all the fuel, it smokes like a train at wot in my race tune, but im not ready to go bendy yet...
Ya that's what I will probably do is get a 400 frame. Ya I wondered if that's why rods bend so bad if it was all the low end torque causing it. if a 400 frame turbo gets tuned for higher rpm wont they be pretty laggy tho?
Ive heard the s366 are only reliable if used in a compound set up? but your probably right on stock fuel I doubt you would over spin it.
How do you like their kits? I was thinking of going through them for one or with SDP or Wehrli.
The only problem I had was the holes in the pedestal overlapped slightly with the pipes on the other side, but it's my understanding they've fixed it. Other than that the kit is excellent!
Not to laggy, my buddy had a 480 on his lly and it wasnt bad at all. He dynoed 640 a few times on diffrent dynos, he was lucky it didnt come apart before he sold it though. Caleb tuned it to live by keeping torque down at low rpm...
That's who I will probably go with for my kit. their work looks pretty sweet.
That's a pretty good number! He def lucked out not blowing something up lol. Ill have to talk to my tuner and see if he can do the same.
Im not sure, Dmitri millard built my trans 4 years ago, I believe it might be a precision converter. I don't tow a whole lot only a few times in the summer. like this summer I towed probably 4 times.
ok ok :roflmao: well what size turbine should I go with? 72/83/.90 or 72/87.90?
I saw a thread similar to this on DF. If that one's yours also do you really live at 6500' elevation?
366s are damn good chargers. Problem is to many people throw to much fuel at them without gating them or watching drive pressure. I'd run a 366 over a 466 any day of the week. Only thing I suggest is doing the upgraded bearing. The 369 is looking pretty bad ass also. I have a 476 single and am hating it more and more.