Hello all. ive been researching and prepping for a few weeks now for going turbo. The truck is my 2007 Classic CCSB i bought about a year ago bone stock off of a nice elderly couple that seemingly took very good care of it. since then ive begun a love/hate relationship with the hp bug and in the last six months i seemed to have joined the make bricks go fast club.

It started when my trans started flairing up on the second-third shift (coincidently not long after it got a ratchet shifter) so i took the plunge and put in a fully built 4L80 with a yank 258mm 2800 stall, and a fresh t case while i was at it. But having a built tranny and stock motor seemed like a terrible idea so i picked up a .614 .624 227 243 114lsa comp cam, and some manley springs to go with it. after that and paying a shop 700 bucks to tune the bastard i decided id learn to tune it myself before the turbo. so far i have a 2bar map, an iat sensor, ive rerouted my heater hoses, i dropped a walbro 255 in it, egt boost and wideband gauges, fic 95lb injectors, and got my hp tuners. ill be ordering tricks stage five kit in the next few days and while its on the way id like to get my tuning sorted out and it running 2 bar sd by the time it gets here.

my biggest obstacle so far is the tuning. ive tried reading as much as i can recently but its alot to take in. my biggest questions are when i change the OS, do i just clip in the map, change the linear and offset values, rewrite the vcm and off i go? or are there other things that need to be changed? same with the injectors, do i punch in the info, and retune the VE table? what else needs to be changed for that?

i also had a few questions about tricks kit, if he or someone who has one of the newer kits wouldnt mind chiming in. ive seen a few manifolds with the wastegate flange on the side of the log instead of on the crossover is that a custom thing? and what would everybody recommend for the turbo? i was thinking the 80/96 Borg but im worried about spool time. the truck will hopefully get a 408 in the future but thats a ways off. would i be better of getting the 80/83 for now and getting the 96 wheel, new housing, and modifying the downpipe later, or just go with 96 now? im open to all ideas and criticisms as im new at all this and learning as i go.

My plan is to start with low boost to get the tuning down, then slowly turn it up until i run out of fuel pump and stop for now. the truck made 400 rear wheel on a mustang dyno and ran a 15.6 down the quarter at castrol raceway last weekend as it sits right now.

 

I have one of tricks new logs. The waste gate port is on the front of the log and he ships out a block off plate with all of his kits. I have my wastegate in the crossover.

 

That's not the newest style. My wastegate comes off on a angle up by the turbo.

 

Any pics of what the log looks like then?

 

right here

 

Yep mine is up there just not on an angle like that. I wonder why he put it on an angle.

 

Always trying to make the product better.

 

sp rick does it come standard like that in the stage 5 kit?

 

sick summit. I could of used a 154 this winter/ 121 is getting a little old these days

 

mine is in cross over and down pipe. the spot on the turbo log is where i moved my 02sensor.