I'll be installing my STS kit this weekend, then i need to drive it about 2 hours to my tuner. I was thinking that it would be fine as long as i kept my foot out of the gas and didn't make boost till it was tuned, but then it hit me. I've got 4.10 gears and a 27 inch tall tire so at highway speeds im turning around 2500-3000 rpms, which would definetly be making boost.

Is there any way that i can rig it to not make boost on the drive over there or am i going to need to trailer it?

 

With a turbo, you won't make boost unless you load the motor regardless of rpm. You will be fine driving to your tuner, just don't run it hard. Install a boost gauge and just keep it under a couple of lbs max. I drove mine for a couple of day's before I got my chity mail order tune.

 

If you are going to be doing a injectors swap you will need tuning to even drive it.

 

just take of the charge pipe to the throttle body off and put your original air intake system on. I drove my truck like this home from my friends house . I still got to hear the turbo spool, it just wasnt feeding the motor so the stock tune was fine till i got every thing put together.

 

Cool, thanks guys. Oh and i am changing injectors and pump, but not installing the injectors till i've already got it on the dyno.

 

i took off a sts pipe under the pass. door and put the filter on it just to get it to my tuner

 

if you take the pipe off like that still don't get on it because if you do you will spool the hell out of the turbo. the waste gate open by pressure from the manifold or charge pipe where ever you have the refrence line. if the pipe is off there will be no pressure and the wastegate will not open and will spool the turbo until it won't spool any more basically or until the pressure in the exhaust forces the wastegate open ( i'm talking at wot not normal driving). if your not changing injectors till you get where you need to go and your running the maf just put it all together and drive easy the maf should compensate well enough for a few pounds of non wot driveing.

 

Just intall the kit as normal w/o the injectors and go. You could drive it forever w/o a tune if you dont get in it. As stated above, the turbo makes boost from load, so just be easy.

 

ok guys, thanks for the info. i really appreciate it.

 

only because i like to be a pain......but, when i swapped my 31lb injectors for 43lb injectors. The truck started, idled, and drove fine as long as i was real easy on the pedal... Then, a few months later when my PCM died, i put the "Stock" pcm in and drove it with no problems to the tuner 30 minutes away. That was with the whipple, injectors, and everything else installed and it ran fine with the original PCM (taking it easy of course).