Reliable HD300?

[Jonnydime]

What parts would be required to make the running HD300 reliable. I am talking less smoke and lower egt's. I was at Elite's site and before I knew it I had $17000 worth of parts in my cart. I had Tow Power X turbos stage 2 heads 60hp sticks a built elite tranny ported fuel lines and intake manifold and the list went on. Then I realized I can't be trusted building my own truck. I don't want to make 1000hp on fuel I just want to make running the HD300 easier on the truck the 1600 degree egt's and massive amounts of smoke have to go.

[studded]

Ive never hit those temps but i believe if you run an egr delete with intake elbow, cac pipe, and down pipe its suppose to help drop egts a bunch. Ive only learned this from reading on here but can say the downpipe helped me some.

[Jonnydime]

On a boosted launch at the track my Mini Maxx registered 1604 degrees.

[04hdfatboy]

to try and cut down on smoke and lower egt's i am going to do the ported intake manifold and a batmowheel. Elites atmosphere turbo is a better option than the batmowheel tho. Another thing that might help is 6.0 manifolds and up pipes.

[PolarBear]

If you do enough of those boosted launches at the track you're going to need that 17k in upgrades. Besides the Minimaxx/ 4" exhaust on mine I also changed the down pipe, did the EGR delete with CFM elbow and SDP cold side pipe. I didn't notice anything significant as far as major egt drop and I don't think it reduced smoke much either. I never ran the HD300 much just because I knew it was more smokey than I liked. Stock turbos weren't intended for handling the massive fueling that big of a tune has so they are never going to clean up the smoke very well or keep lower egts doing WOT runs. Going with the better turbos would help your setup.

[Jonnydime]

Originally Posted by Jonnydime

On a boosted launch at the track my Mini Maxx registered 1604 degrees.

Or should I say the one boosted launch. As in I have only done it once.

[Jonnydime]

I was leaning towards the Tow Power compounds a new intercooler egr delete with cfm elbow and headstuds. I only want to have the cab off once. I know the tranny will be next but it will last as long I keep my foot out of it most of the time. I like to run the HD300 I just dont like the smoke and high egt's.

[04hdfatboy]

i personally would do a ported intake manifold before i would do an intercooler. I believe you will see better results

[dieselfreek26]

:whs: and with stock fuel I would just go with elites 71mm or a batmo wheel to clean up the smoke

[strokinpower]

do you have studs?