Went to the track...

Since my '04 Powerstroke F250 is in Iowa right now being "upgraded" :twisted: I decided to bring my '95 F150 to th track to see what it would do, just out of pure curiosity. This is a bone stock '95 (as listed in my sig). Runs great and doesn't burn or leak a drop of oil. New plugs, wires, cap, rotor, air filter, pcv valve, egr, etc...

So, I go to the track and it runs a BLISTERING 18.9 @ 69mph, lol. I knew it was slow, but honestly I was expecting at least 17's. It did have a little bit of traction issues (spinning first and barking 2nd pretty good) but w/o that it would probablyonly get around an 18.5 or so.

So now i wanna put a small turbo on it. Nothing crazy and something I can use with the stock long-block. Just something to give it a little more punch. I'd be perfectly happy if it could run 15's.

In my short amount of research seems like most of the threads I run across are not dealing with turbo charging on EFI motors.

Can y'all give me some ideas or point me to some threads/faq's dealing iwth turbo charging in EFI applications? I'm mostly wondering about codes being thrown and the "electrical" side of it. Thanx a bunch!
 
Welcome Elmo. I recognize your name from some of the diesel sites I frequent often.

Anyways, from my undrstanding the stock EFI sysytem is not friendly to modifications to far from stock, let alone adding boost to the mix. I do know that a megasquirt standalone computer has been brought up in numerous threads so that one would be ble to adjust every parameter of the system.

Others smarter than me will chime in soon.
 
The problem is that as far as we can determine, no one has cracked the codes for the 300's PCM. That tends to limit what you can get away with.

Converting to Megasquirt might actually be simpler than converting to a carb.

BTW that is a slow ET. My 96 with an automatic runs 18.2s stock with a manual tranny, I'd expect 17.8s
 
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