(03-07-2022 )Rawze Wrote: Sounds like you bought into an abused engine for sure. That is never a good thing... and your troubles.. and any progressive damage to the engine internally due to that type of abuse is likely unknown at this point.
U can get a VGT turbo from YTS ...
http://rawze.com/forums/showthread.php?t...5#pid65315
They have a decent price compared to the stealers$its.. is one of the very few recommended places to get a turbo from that is not an OEM shop.
and yeah... the CM871 manifold will have to go back onto it for the VGT turbo to fit.
The next question, is "was the egr cooler removed or blocked off?... because that is a big issue too if it has been.. and what about the exhaust system?. is straight-piped< or is it hollowed out 100% too?.. or some half-arssed thing?
As far as the programming goes.. it really is not that hard to straighten out. A cheap laptop and a data-link adapter (an inline-6) chineesuim adapter off flea bay or from obd2.com etc.. for about $300 bucks or so is all someone needs. The stuffs needed to fix it right and straighten out bad de-mandate programming is easy enough to to get a hold of and get done (free usually) if are able to successfully follow some step-by-step instructions on how to copy your program in/out of the ecm on your own.
That or to get with one of the couple people on here that can be trusted to do it for ya.. but it being a CM871.. I would recommend doing it for yourself.
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sad part is that some poor bas$tard likely paid big$$$ damn dollars for that complete hack-n-slash.. upwards of like $12k I have seen some people get raped in the arsse for,.. for that borg-weener garbage and half-arssed delete. It is also likely that the person who had this done was snowballed into thinking they were doing something good to the engine. - that is the worst part of it.. because trash-can mods like that are nothing but an engine killing rip-off at its finest!.
Thanks for the response. I ended up taking the truck the Mr Hag…I was ready for the worst, but he said it actually wasn’t too bad. The peace of mind alone was worth the (very reasonable) bill…plus the office girls are a hoot!
