Hey, I'm woking on a VGT conversion on my '97 5.9, and I heard that you would be coming out with a standalone controller, looks good! Is it electronically controlled, or mechanically/pneumatically controlled? If electronically, what have you are/are you going to do to prevent failure of the electronics, seeing as how that is the main problem with these things, and the reason we can pick them up so cheap.
@JohnyB59 If you are too lazy to pull this turbocharger off and clean it every 50,000 miles on a normal working non smoking truck, you dont need this turbocharger.
I ran one of these setups on my 2001 cummins. I was running 220 hp injectors, Smarty, and quad adrenaline or Hot juice with attitude. NEVER had a problem with the vanes sticking. Now my earlier comment about soot building up was pretty broad, soot on the earlier turbos built up on them making them not work. However, Cummins has changed its software so that it sweeps the actuator at key on to check and make sure that the vanes have full travel. This controller does the same thing.
does this use TPS and RPMs signals from the engine?
bowridger 1 year ago
how much
hemijosh426 2 years ago
@hemijosh426 haha prolly a lot man
it'd be worth it though
bighunterman77 2 years ago
It looks like you are still using a factory ECU to control the servo on the Holset.
vgturboman 2 years ago
those are the stock electronics...they're obviously building a controller/computer program to run them on our 5.9s or any other truck
upinsmoke945 2 years ago
Hey, I'm woking on a VGT conversion on my '97 5.9, and I heard that you would be coming out with a standalone controller, looks good! Is it electronically controlled, or mechanically/pneumatically controlled? If electronically, what have you are/are you going to do to prevent failure of the electronics, seeing as how that is the main problem with these things, and the reason we can pick them up so cheap.
PezaoMandinga 2 years ago
@PezaoMandinga
The problem is not the electronics, its the soot being built up on the moving parts insde the VGT itself
JohnyB59 2 years ago
@JohnyB59 If you are too lazy to pull this turbocharger off and clean it every 50,000 miles on a normal working non smoking truck, you dont need this turbocharger.
Batojiri1 3 weeks ago
@Batojiri1
I ran one of these setups on my 2001 cummins. I was running 220 hp injectors, Smarty, and quad adrenaline or Hot juice with attitude. NEVER had a problem with the vanes sticking. Now my earlier comment about soot building up was pretty broad, soot on the earlier turbos built up on them making them not work. However, Cummins has changed its software so that it sweeps the actuator at key on to check and make sure that the vanes have full travel. This controller does the same thing.
JohnyB59 3 weeks ago