I can tell you what went wrong, you bought an Elite turbo. My truck went through 3 different Elite VGT Turbos. All went bad before I could put 1000 miles on my truck. There customer service is a F and so are the turbos. Get a non vgt and your temps will go down and it will last longer, not to mention it will run freaking awsome. They said it was my truck but funny after every turbo went bad I installed the stocker and all was good. I am running the stocker and its still good. Your truck is awsome looks alot like mine.......I will post pictures soon. Good luck with ELITE..:doh:
Make sure you got the uppipe clamp on there correclty and also make sure you don't have any boost leaks.
As for the comment about air being compressed and what not causing hotter EGT's.... well if you're moving more air with the same exact injectors... typically you see less boost. Food for thought. With a larger turbo, you will see higher temps while it's spooling, but when it's spooled the egts were be lower, all else constant.
Thanks for the input so far my buddy been saving up for one maybe i should tell him otherwise. He runs elites tuning so maybe there is something in that but who knows. I do think that they recomend stage II or III for that turbo so maybe you dont have enough fuel to really spool it but i cant be sure on that one. I always thought a vgt would be cooler no matter but maybe the vanes have to be "closed" more to spool the bigger intake side and thats why the egts are higher. Im betting even with more fuel or injectors you see close to the same temps. I have always heard good of elite but thats my two pennies!!
your tune definately needs to be revised, as for your temps, 1600 is a little scary for me, but if thats only @ WOT, not terrible i suppose, nice looking rig though :thumb::icon_ford:
could i have an injector or fuel problem, i was pulling a hill and mashed on it and it was kinda sputtering and my egt's shot up and would'nt gain rpm's or boost
i would start with getting your tune revised, then i would start looking at injectors, i know that if you have stock injectors and that turbo, you might have some problems spooling it, but i would start with the tune and go from there.
you might have a drive pressure leak or it could be your turbo. i had to send my HO back in cause i had high egt's too. 1000-1100 at 55mph cruising. and i could only hit 35psi of boost. i put my stocker on and detune it and its all good. idk i like elite and they are standing by there product so i cant hate on them.
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