Forrest

Anyone know who the 1st plate grinder was? ... or who the 1st "commercial" plate grinder was?

I take it someone dinked around & someone else might have run with the idea & put them into production. Now, today, how many "commercial" plate mfgs are there?

Tmc243

I think Mark at TST was the first, he is a retired cummins engineer.

O'Neill

so has anyone taken and traced out there pattern>? i have my stock plate out and i want to grind it and put it back in but i dont really know what shapoe to grind it

BoostdCTD

I think GunRacer1 has the best fuel plate design, here is a picture of his plate hosted in Forrest's gallery. It is either a 108 like the name suggests or a 100 like I think I read from him previously stating.

gunracer1

that is the plate i run in my truck, it has a #10 ramp on the bottom and straight up from the deepest part [no top end defueling] of a 10 like a #0 plate. it is a killer street plate but gets real smokey on the top end. a true#0 is deeper than the deepest part of a #10 but i can just slide it forward if i need more fuel. this is the plate i put in my friends trucks that want the best of both worlds on the street, but egts must be held in check with your foot if you don't have a big turbo.

BoostdCTD

Ok, thanks for clarifying that GunRacer. I'll post something in his gallery to mention it is a #100, not #108. Does it cut in towards the middle or is it just straight?

gunracer1

the plate is not as deep as a true#0, it is alittle bit deeper than a #10 in its deepest part. a #0 is about 60 thousands deeper on the vertical part than my plate.

drawson

I really like the TST #0 plate!!! I have had it now for 3 years. I am the one that controls fule not the plate. I find I don't have to go peddle to the metal hardly ever with it.

You do have to watch the gauges with the #0, but it's also fun to watch the tail pipe

Forrest Nearing

rawson, I've got a flat plate too... it's fun!

gunracer1

i keep fighting going to a #0, i can get all kinds of smoke now. that is why i did my plate like i did. just to slow it down alittle bit on the bottom.

winkle

Thanks for all the replies and e-mail's.

BoostdCTD,

In the picture you posted of the fuel plate, what could I expect from a plate like that...ie, MPG, smoke(how much), off the line acceleration, HP & torque.

gunracer1

the plate has nothing to do with miliage, your right foot does. it smokes on the top end pretty good with my 215 pump and hx35. i am not sure where you would hit hp and tq wise. mike

drawson

Gunracer1, You need more turbo!!! I never ran a #0 until I had my PDR HX-40.

I was running a #11 3/4 the way forward , 370s and a 16 housing on my stock HX-35. I'd see 48+ PSI at full throttle and smoked way bad (enough to turn the day to night) , it made 398 HP at 4200 feet with the HX-35/16. I switched to the PDR HX-40/16 and with only 36 PSI(waste gate setting) and the smoke was all but gone. The only thing I chnaged was the turbo and the down pipe. It also made 437 HP.

Get some more air and you'll love the #0 Plate

Forrest Nearing

man, where is your #0 plate installed? mine's way forward, I'm running an HX40-16 at 40psi, and there's plenty of smoke!

Forrest

drawson

I have mine at full rack travel. And my pump has been turned up and balnced at a pump shop. With 65 PSI it still has some smoke. I've got bigger injectors lines(.093) and some injectors I got from Nowel before his untimely departure.

It hasn't mattered what I have done to my truck sooner or later I get the smoke back