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Road Trip !!

Made it to White horse finally. For those of you who have never driven this road there's literally hundreds of miles just like in the pic. Little wide spots every so often you can stop and get a bite or something. Alot of those are closed now that tourist season is over. Weather has been all over the place but more so on the snowy windy side. Did hit a little cold weather from Grand prairie to pink mountain with -8 at Grand prairie and -16 at pink mountain. Should be back in Alaska today. Not sure when I'll be home though. Besides the weather slowing me down it's pretty wearing, either that or I'm getting old. IMG_20171103_105423.jpg
 
I’m thinkin a little of both haha.
What a trip.

Any conclusion on the ATT for your use yet? Havent really towed with it yet, but not sure how often you do.
 
My son tells Me to not drive that road, unless I have about a week to take my time.
he talks of frost heaves, sudden turns, no center or shoulder lines and possibly having to wait for a herd of buffalos to get up from a snooze. LOL
Good to see You are making safe progress. that road looks brutal just from the pics.
You did go close by My dads home, in Rimby Alberta. I drove over there once to see the old homestead site.
 
Will L. said:
I’m thinkin a little of both haha.
What a trip.

Any conclusion on the ATT for your use yet? Havent really towed with it yet, but not sure how often you do.
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He may not be towing but, he does have a couple thousand pounds of lumber and stuff in back. I drove it when he stopped in and it pulled quite well. He's not holding anyone up in traffic coming off the line. Of course, right now there isn't much traffic.

Drive safe these last few miles AK Amigo.
 
Paveltolz said:
He may not be towing but, he does have a couple thousand pounds of lumber and stuff in back. I drove it when he stopped in and it pulled quite well. He's not holding anyone up in traffic coming off the line. Of course, right now there isn't much traffic.

Drive safe these last few miles AK Amigo.
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Yeah, 9840#! If that doesn’t drive a turbo, I guess nothing will! A trailer would be more drag from the tires, but yes that weight is more than enough.

ak diesel driver said:
Back in Alaska at Tok
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Has to be good to be across the last invisible line!
 
And people give the 6.5’s a bad name. You just made it from one part of the country to almost the other and back with a 6.5.

Glad to see y’all made Home with no problems.
 
Thought it was interesting that I could actually get more boost than drive pressure at times. This was not real common but did happen several times. Most of the time it was one to one up until 12-14 lbs and then the drive pressure would climb more.IMG_20171104_111714.jpg IMG_20171104_111810.jpg
 
Man, I bet your phone is filled with majestic postcard pictures. That one there with the tops of the trees barely into the bottom of the picture like heaven looking down on across the water to the snow blown mountain with clouds dragging across them. Wow.

And that other one with the angle looking down on the tripple pillar set and orange drive pressure just below 6psi and orange boost a hair above 8! Wow.
Um, you figure out how to drive your truck keeping those needles like that and you fuel gauge will really thank you. Seriously though, awesome scenery. (Dont you feel bad for the teachers in School that had to put up with me?). Is anything you noticed you did to get the boost up over drive like that? Certain rpm or slight downhill?
 
Oh, ok- good! Thermal drive vs drive pressure. Thats the part of turbos that I know it works, (this is exactly proof of it) but still my mind just bends trying to digest it on how it spins the blades.

So the reason we all should insulate exhaust and turbo to not loose heat before the turbo is this desired result. It’s basically “free boost” that the hotter exhaust gives instead of needing higher rpm to create air flow in the form of exhaust to operate the turbo. And yes the temperature differential on the 2 sides of the turbine wheel and housing amplifies the effect.

My turbo guy always got so excited about this and started rampling off different laws of thermodynamics like a friggin science teacher.
Then when I was blasting propane all over the place, one place was just outside the turbine housing with some trick venturi action to function like an after burner. It created a huge pressure differential and really drove my turbos as much as the drive pressure did. Not street friendly though- haha.

One of the very few draw backs of wmi is loosing this heat. For most 6.5s this isn’t a problem as we have plenty to spare. But the rest of the turbo world, not so much.

This is where Turbine Doc could explain hows and whys, and show you how to maximize from it. I just talked to him on the phone yesterday btw- he is good and was in an airport about to leave for Argentina.
 
@Will L. Next time you talk to turbine doc tell him that the new members (those of us who came in after he left) really miss his knowledge on things like turbos and other stuff that is COMPLETELY over my head and love his knowledge in his post from the past.
 
Will L. said:
Oh, ok- good! Thermal drive vs drive pressure. Thats the part of turbos that I know it works, (this is exactly proof of it) but still my mind just bends trying to digest it on how it spins the blades.

So the reason we all should insulate exhaust and turbo to not loose heat before the turbo is this desired result. It’s basically “free boost” that the hotter exhaust gives instead of needing higher rpm to create air flow in the form of exhaust to operate the turbo. And yes the temperature differential on the 2 sides of the turbine wheel and housing amplifies the effect.

My turbo guy always got so excited about this and started rampling off different laws of thermodynamics like a friggin science teacher.
Then when I was blasting propane all over the place, one place was just outside the turbine housing with some trick venturi action to function like an after burner. It created a huge pressure differential and really drove my turbos as much as the drive pressure did. Not street friendly though- haha.

One of the very few draw backs of wmi is loosing this heat. For most 6.5s this isn’t a problem as we have plenty to spare. But the rest of the turbo world, not so much.

This is where Turbine Doc could explain hows and whys, and show you how to maximize from it. I just talked to him on the phone yesterday btw- he is good and was in an airport about to leave for Argentina.
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I have thought about the thermal blanket for te turbo.
My concern is, will the blanket drive up the EGTs ?
 
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