Wes Tausend wrote:
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Thanks for some good info guys. I'm a bit surprised at the low exhaust cooling gain by adding an intercooler to the earlier, non-intercooler engines though. Unless the intercooler simply caused a notable more aggressive low rpm charge burn, resulting in a lot more power.
I understand there is a physical ceiling to limiting exhaust temps as a fixed displacement achieves high HP while remaining at mediocre rpm's. The 7.3L is not normally a good free revver. Is that what happens?
Wes
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I would actually like to ride in one of these 7.3's with all these mods screaming up mountain passes towing 12-13K . I have ,and there is no screaming. ETG's will get the 7.3 long before you can utilize any power increase.
I'd like to see a video of a 7.3 with 13K hooked up pulling the last mile or so of either Daniels in Utah, or the hill out of Ashton Idaho up into Island park . I have towed them both several times with a modded 7.3 with a 13K fifth wheel. Both hills second gear 30-35 MPH, ETG's running right at 1200-1250, can't run any higher then that. My point is I am calling BS on all this power of the 7.3 in the mountains. I'm not talking about the guy bragging about a 7500 lb trailer , I would brag too the 7.3 does pretty good with that weight.
