Thanks man! Yeah those cali rules limit ya a bit. I bet you can still make a pretty cool lb7 though 😎

@KooshdaakaaGarage yea forsure! Got a few goodies so far, Banks power cold air intake, PPE boost valve, Banks Power big head wastegate, Banks Ram diff cover, PPE economy tune, PPE trans cooler, and FASS lift pump. Next upgrade is a red head gear box lol

@mosesandres3385 that's what I'm talking about man. You have a lot of smiles per gallon right there! You'll have to let me know how the banks wastegate works for ya. I've been curious about that one for a while.

@KooshdaakaaGarage I felt a difference right away with the waste gate. I do want to see how it would be with a down pipe and some exhaust. My truck currently has 331k. I'm the 3rd owner. 1st one put 300k mostly towing his horse. 2nd owner only put 20k on it. I've put about 11k, so I will say I'm hesitant to do to much and make the ol girl not happy lol

Hey there Miller, and thank you for the question. When I'm out overlanding, loaded down with gear, dogs and people, I get upwards to 16mph. When I'm just doing strictly town driving with my camper on I get about 13mpg. Both of which is a huge improvement over when I first got the truck and was barely getting 7mpg. Getting a tune made the biggest overall improvement in the mpg department for sure. After that it was an accumulation of upgrades and maintenance. Fresh oil in the crankcase, fresh fuel filters, fresh intake air filter, fresh gear oil in the diffs, fresh fluid in the transfer case, greased front wheel bearings, all made minor improvements to fuel economy. Another big improvement that I did (a timely one) was rebuild the turbo, port the exhaust side and compressor side, upgrade the compressor turbo wheel to a billet aluminum, then port match the up pipes, down pipe, exhaust manifold (BD full bore on driverside), mildly port/polish the cylinder heads, rebuilding cylinder heads. All that extra flow through the RPM range helped spool up the turbo faster and lower in the RPM range. The one thing I did to hurt the fuel economy was toss in 45% over sac nozzle injectors. Though I suspect with proper custom tuning the mpg will come back up.

Thank you brotha! 🍻

Ah man that sucks about losing your other LB7. Congrats on picking up another one! Sounds like its already off to a good start and back good hands.

@@KooshdaakaaGarage Smh.... The seller lied about a few things, so.... yeah. Not sure yet what I'm going to do. Might just take the drive line and put it in my grandfather's 99 suburban, not fond of the 6.5 Detroit

Ooo ouch man. I've had some fuel leak issues after I did my injectors, and head gaskets. I had to go back through and re trace my steps and tighten all the loose lines. I also replaced all the soft lines because they were weeping fuel. My guess is something went squirelly with the cp3 install, maybe pinched a gasket? While you are in there I'd check the fuel pressure regulator wires, make sure they aren't broken. I imagine the new cp3 came with a new fpr? Surging can be a sign of a failing fpr, so definitely give that a once over. Hope it's an easy fix man!

@@KooshdaakaaGarage ya it’s a reman pump so not guaranteed good pump so . Must of came with bad fpr cuz it’s surging with the code

@A2ZREY I'd look at the canned tuners you can get at local parts stores. One of the better ones is the PPE Xcelerator. You can get an economy version for around $350 I think. The standard like I have is around $450 and comes with a couple more tunes. It also has a bunch of diagnostic tools like injector balance read outs, maf sensor, fuel pressure, can read dtc codes. Great tool.

@@KooshdaakaaGarage is it safe to buy a used on ?

@A2ZREY yeah you can do that too. One thing you have to look out for is that the tuner can only be used on one truck at a time unless additional license is purchased. So if the person returns their tuned truck back to stock tune then the tuner should be ready to tune a different truck.