man, what a weekend...
I had bought an sps66 for my last truck and never installed it... decided that with the 35's and heavier truck, I might do better w/ an sps62.
called Shane at II and he hooked me up and got the turbo out to me on Thurs...
realized I didn't have a filter setup so I called Rip and had him send me an AFE Race setup.
Thurs was spent running around getting everything I needed to do the swap... exhaust pieces, etc.
got up bright and early Friday and drove out SM Diesel... got there and Wes and I were talking and I noticed the right front fender well was all wet... took a closer look and noticed that the entire right side of the truck was coated in coolant
we cracked the radiator cap and it vented a lot of pressure
head gasket... not the treat I was looking for when I'm 6hrs from home, with a weekend of closed shops bearing down on me, and having to be 2hrs from home in the company van at 8AM monday morning!!!!
called Ray at RAYMAC to see where they were on the head I'd dropped off a while back... he said he wasn't sure what we'd finally decided to do (my flakiness... every time we talked I said something different! LOL!), so they hadn't started, but he had Wes' head almost finished... Wes said his famous three words... "not a problem" and told me to tell Ray to put the rush on it and we'd be there before close to pick it up. We (I say "we"... it was Wes driving me around for 7 hrs!!!) had to run all over and across the metroplex and back to get to his bank, my bank, RAYMAC, etc. Wes' Cummins guy met us in a WalMart parking lot at 8PM with the head gasket set and got back to SM Diesel at 9PM...
The truck fought me at every turn till 4AM Fri night... from 8AM-4AM on Saturday, and it finally relented at about 5PM Sunday. Every time it cornered me, Wes just said "not a problem" and grabbed what I needed off the shelf. I was sunk so many times it's not even funny, and he bailed me out every time!!
by 6PM it was comical when I pulled back into his lot for the 3rd time chasing boost leaks... we got it all sorted out, the drive home was stressful, and I'm still nervous with only 1 retorque on the studs-orings, so I'm just babying it around for a while... the head gasket job is still WAY too fresh on my mind! LOL!
the sps62 sounds INSANE out the tailpipe!!!!! I'm running 5" straight pipe with the last 30" or so of tailpipe 6" diameter... I'm amazed that such a large turbine turns that kind of RPM... it's so much louder than my old HX40 it's amazing. it honest to god sounds like a friggin' 18 wheeler... and the RAYMAC head put a little extra snap in the exhaust note that I've never heard before. I got out of the truck to look for exhaust leaks only to learn that those were just exhaust pulses coming out the tailpipe!
I freakin' LOVE this combo, even if I am just putting around w/ it! (ok, I accidently saw 45psi a few times... that boost needle swings QUICK!!!!)
thanks to Shane at II for working with me to get the exact turbo I wanted...
BIG thanks to Ray at RAYMAC for staying late on a Friday to get me rolling
and HUGE thanks to Wes at SM Diesel for turning a real bummer of a Friday into a "not a problem" of a Sunday
I owe ya a few!!!
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