PROJECT MY2K: PART 9 BUYING USED AND - Issuu

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Beschreibung

It ’s been a year since this truck was purchased to help generate, what we hope, is good technical content around the 7.3L Power Stroke. We’d hoped to be able to share more in-depth information on the strengths and weaknesses of this platform, what can be upgraded for better reliability. What parts are worth upgrading and why. Mostly, we just wanted to show the guys out there still driving a twenty year old truck , that while it ’s old and outdated compared to the new trucks, they can still be plenty capable when it comes time to work . KC Turbos Stage One With the most basic upgrades already taken care of, and a lot of the common failure points resolved, its time to jump into some of the more in-depth installs, like replacing the worn out and undersized stock turbo and replacing the leaking exhaust up-pipes. We’ve done articles on 7.3L turbo upgrades before, and one of our favorites to date was a KC300X that was installed on a 1996 Power Stroke project a few years back. Leaning on that knowledge, we reached out to KC Turbos for their opinion on the best option for our mild daily driver/tow rig build. With plans of a Stage 1 or 1.5 injector down