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nice truck man. it appears as though you are happy with the upgrade to cummins! I'm jealous.


I'm very happy with the Cummins. The power and torque is just unreal! And thanks

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yeah man, i mean you need to carry a bat with you right?
 
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Yea a 2 cell does the trick lol

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Ordered a Smarty today...pretty excited to get it!

I got to work today, found out they are cutting overtime...so mods will be coming a little slower
 

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Well thats great on the smarty, ****** on the OT.
 
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Well thats great on the smarty, ****** on the OT.

Yea thats what I thought... I got my finally militray bonus coming in in March, that when i'll get a lot of this done!
 
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Modified my bumper slighty... and uplaoded my Smarty!

No pics tho...I'm at work, and cant find my cord for my camera.

Plan on taking some vids of the truck tomorrow also
 
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Ok... we got the bumper sorta done on Sunday. Its turned out...eh....alright I guess. I'm not CRAZY about it, but I like it better than all that crap that was on it before.

I plan on doing some more modifications to it or getting rid of it for a stock bumper.

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Off the truck
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Before
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After
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Cleaned up
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Painted and on
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Light bar idea...
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Got some plans for the fog lights...but I wont ruin that suprise
 
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Ok...now for the videos of the Smarty

I played around with it for a little (no pun)

I had it on level 4, which I believe is the 190hp tune... that was to much for the truck. It drained the fuel rail and I lost off top end power. It was great on the low end...and it had that "cool" factor of ALOT of smoke. But my EGTs hit 1500 like it was nothing...thats a no go

So I switched it to level 2...it was ok, felt like I could get a lot more. I played with the timing a little, didn't seem to affect it that much.

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So I put it on 3...left everything else at default. EGTs stayed at 1200 or below, good low end and top end. Gonna play with it some more and go from there.

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Once I get an aftermarket liftpump...it will pull harder at top end bc I wont be running out of fuel then lol

Here is my exhaust... 5" turbo back with no muffler or cat
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(I could have done 15psi launches...but the roads were sorta wet, so I kept it below 10)
 
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I'm with you on the bumper, looks out of place. Needs some type of hoop. Truck is looking good man, and the smarty looks awesome!
 
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I'm with you on the bumper, looks out of place. Needs some type of hoop. Truck is looking good man, and the smarty looks awesome!

Yea it does...I'll see what I can dream up with it!

And thanks...still gonna play around with it and find the best option for my truck. Gonna be upgrading my lift pump soon, so that will help!
 
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