Went to the track...DISSAPOINTED!
04-27-2006, 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by DieselLady
WOW!!! Do you have new head studs on that and maybe an O ring on the Head?????. Am I wrong or isn't about 40psi the point where you should start worrying about head gaskets??? 
04-27-2006, 09:21 PM
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most people you will talk to say 50 to 55psi is the so called red line for boost presure. with the sig i have, i run 46 to 48 at WOT with the box on 5x5 and i put 30k miles like that. i just blew the head gasket last week but blew on a weird spot. compresion side did not blow, neither did the coolant side, i blew the very front out and was leakin oil. think it was a faulty gasket.
04-27-2006, 11:35 PM
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Originally Posted by inline6power
most people you will talk to say 50 to 55psi is the so called red line for boost presure. with the sig i have, i run 46 to 48 at WOT with the box on 5x5 and i put 30k miles like that. i just blew the head gasket last week but blew on a weird spot. compresion side did not blow, neither did the coolant side, i blew the very front out and was leakin oil. think it was a faulty gasket.
Thats the same place where my gasket blew. Maybe due to the fact that the head was no longer flat.
04-27-2006, 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by one54ton
Boost was well over 40 maybe 43?
04-28-2006, 12:00 AM
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Infineon...Tech guys were rude. They said they would only let me run it that day because of the height of my truck and the fact I had a cracked winsheild. 
04-28-2006, 12:20 AM
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You should head out to Sacramento Raceway on a wednesday, tech shouldnt hassle you at all out there. I have been out there every wedsnesday for the past like 5 or 6 weeks now, I actually got first place last night 
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