2001 F350 7.3 Powerstroke - 33psi Billet Wastegate Upgrade - Install, Review, Stock WG Compare SP

Guys what's going on welcome back to the channel and today we're gonna install this wastegate that I got on ebay from us turbo systems This is a 33 pound Uh billet wastegate and we're gonna go ahead and remove our stock one Which is right there We're gonna remove that guy. I already unbolted it And I already took the pin out. I'll show you that in a minute uh, but We're basically gonna swap that and we're gonna test this one versus the other one Now on the wastegate, let me see if I can show you I don't know if you guys gonna see this, but there's two uh Nuts behind here Behind the wastegate one here and one over here somewhere I can't really see but Hopefully you guys can see There's one right there And one On the other side and then on the rod side right here There was a retainer pin and I used this little hook thing to kind of Hook it and try to try to get it off and then I honestly, I don't know where it flew away. It's so tiny. It just bounced somewhere probably in the engine valley uh So i'll have to figure out and see what I can make to uh, retain the new rod in place So basically what we do is After the retainer pin over here is off. You basically just kind of wiggle this thing off It should come off. There you go like that And then after you got the two bolts Off right here on the wastegate It basically just slides out And you're good to go Now here's a stock one versus the 33 pound billet one Seems to be well made The design i'm sure it's pretty simple. You get pressure inside There's a spring and then the spring opens up and then it pushes this rod out which opens the wastegate And the reason I have two is because I bought one and the shipping one and accidentally they shipped shipping one used and there was a Bolt right here that's missing So they shipped me another one And if you guys want this Let me know in the comments just put 7.3 wastegate If you have a 7.3, obviously And i'll pick a winner Probably on my next video And i'll ship this out to you guys. Um, i'll i'll try to see if I can find This bolt right here. Basically i'm going to try to see if I can get this out from this side And then see if I can get a replacement um in here Honestly, I don't think it uh affects anything uh but the reason they sent me out is because I showed them this and that it was Seemed like it was installed maybe and then there's somebody returned it um, and the reason i'm going to install the new one on my truck and not the used one and give away this one is because honestly, I I want to be Kind of honest with the company if they send me a new one. I'll install the new one and i'll give away Uh, this one supposedly broken one used one. So that way the company is not going to say. Hey, we send you a new one Why don't you? Install the new one. Why did you give it away blah blah blah, so I don't want to have any issues with that. So Uh, that's why i'm going to install the one they send me the replacement and then i'm going to give away this one um, so It still works. I tested it. It seems to be working just fine. Here's another thing with this, uh wastegate. They send you Two little attachment one with the smaller hole one with a bigger hole. However On the stock one as you can see the hole is little So it's bigger than this one The hole is the same as this one because this sends you two of these But when you put this one on it's too thick So it's almost twice as thick. So when you put this one on The retainer clip does not fit on top Because this is too thick and this goes on there just perfectly and then the retainer clip slides, right? On top of there and it holds it in place, but because this is too thick the retainer clip would not retain this in place So what I end up doing on my other one Is I drilled the hole even bigger because uh that little lever has a kind of like a two-step Let me show you that real quick. So if you guys can see it has a thin side and a thicker side So the thin side will fit on top But the retainer clip would not fit now So what I end up doing is drilling a bigger hole to fit on this bigger section right here So now it sits down a little bit lower and then i'm going to use a washer on top and then a retainer clip On top of that so that's going to hold Everything in place and since my retainer clip kind of flew away somewhere. No idea where I kind of tried making my own right there For now it'll work, but I suggest you get a few retainer clips from I don't know Napa or AutoZone, whatever um but for now this will work and what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna use this and then put a washer on top And then retainer clip on top of that because with that bigger hole the retainer clip is just gonna slide right through All right. So now let's go ahead and test these guys out and see at what psi they start. Um Moving I got my little pressure gauge right here Made a little connector for the waste gate And uh, let's plug this guy in here And kind of watch I drew a line right there You guys can see that blue line on here So let's keep an eye on that and see at what psi it starts moving So it's moving around 6 psi 5 psi 3 psi even Look at that 3 psi and it's already pretty much Halfway open this is full right here So let's get uh, so 3 psi 4 psi it starts moving it Halfway about It's about 9 10 psi it opens about halfway Let's see. Let's get to full And about 21 psi 22 psi it opens it opens the thing completely So let's say 3 psi around 3 psi I mean maybe even less maybe 2 psi But yeah, so we got a let's say 3 psi it opens it starts opening it barely we get about 10 psi at half So we got 3 10 and 22. So we got three opening start it starts opening about 3 psi 10 psi we're about a half and a 22 that's already fully open now let's compare that to the This 33 pound waste gate All right. Now, let's go ahead and uh Check this one and see what we're gonna get So on here I put 3 psi I kind of moved it about 10 because it was just kind of wobbling around So let's just say 3 psi opens about 10. So let's see What this one opens at? So looks like at 18 psi it starts Opening it about 10. Let's do it again real quick Yeah about 18 About 18 psi. So let's do 50. Let's see how many psi we'll get it to 50 Okay, so 29 psi opens it at 50 That's quite a bit And then to get it fully open Fully open is at 40 psi So that's quite That's a bit high Why am I putting percent over here? That's not percent. That's psi just so you know I'm sure there's going to be some resistance and some loss When it's on the truck and on the turbo But let's see how much I can pull out by hand So I can do about 75 percent Yeah, okay and this one About 25 I can barely put about 25. So there's a lot of uh There's going to be a lot of uh, it's going to need a lot of pressure to open this guy. So I I guess I guess let's install it and see what we get. Hopefully my custom baby retainer clip works and uh, we'll uh Do some testing and see what we can get our truck to All right. Well the install is going to be pretty simple straightforward Same way you take it out Same way it goes in you put the wastegate into the The holes first and then you connect the rod right here See if I can need to Here we go You don't want to tighten this nut right here just yet. You want to make sure This goes on there Okay, so Okay, we're good on that Now we're going to put our washer right here Washer on there a little washer spacer and then we're going to try installing our retainer pin and this one's i'm a little I'm a little worried about this one um Just so I don't lose it. Maybe this tip is going to be Good for you guys Maybe shove some paper towels and some towels in there Maybe this way if it falls at least it's going to be hopefully on the towel right here I'm not putting this guy on It's going to be a little tricky I'm sure it's not going to just slide on there That easy i'm going to need to Push it with something I think I think it's on there. Okay. Yeah, I think it's on there. All right, and the nuts on the back You just kind of put them on with two hands while Left hand is holding it in place. The right hand Is tightening in place That makes it a lot easier. I'm basically just laying on top of my engine and They are on Okay, so that's good. That's good And then I used Some towels on the bottom in case one of them does fall It's going to catch it and then I got my little Tool right here 10 millimeter with the swivel and extension and then we're gonna Go ahead and tighten it It's kind of a pain in the butt to get it there get in there with the ratchet but This one seems to be working a little bit better in this area And we got the back one. Let's see if we can Squeeze it in there Okay, that's good. And then the top one That's good And we'll get the red line vacuum line connected That's good. That's done All right, and there she is installed Now if you guys remember I did that test when I disconnected the vacuum line from my stock wastegate and we got like 24 Just barely touching 25 psi So let's see what this guy does And I did not get uh over boost code When I did the stock wastegate disconnected So we'll see what happens with this one All right, let's see what we're gonna get in third gear right now Well, we only got 22 psi That's kind of weird I mean i'm not complaining. I don't want to I don't want it to be too high Yeah, it looks like 23 23 is probably max I don't know why not why not higher But it is what it is So yeah guys looks like 23 psi is probably the most we're gonna get out of this. I don't know why it doesn't go uh any higher because when we did the testing and we saw that uh, he needed about 10 psi to start moving barely and about What was it like 20 psi about to open halfway And to fully open it was about 40 psi. So we saw that it needs a lot of pressure to open the wastegate and In this case, it didn't go more than 20 About 23 psi. So i'm guessing It opens it enough to release the the turbo pressure and it doesn't go any higher Which is kind of good because you don't want to push the turbo uh too far You don't want to run it more than 20. You don't want to run it at 25 psi all the time and Because the turbo probably don't doesn't spool up as fast as aftermarket turbos and the wheel is stock So it doesn't spool up as fast so It's not able to go higher because it probably dumps all that Uh the pressure before it built before it can actually build up more. So in a way, that's good Actually, i'm kind of happy with that that it's set at 22 23. That's probably the maximum And here i am cruising about 70 miles per hour And we are at about 5 psi right now Let's see what happens if I step on the on the gas pedal So, yeah, that's pretty good so it gets to about 20 psi fairly easily And it went from 70 to 80 So yeah, i'm pretty happy with it. Uh No engine light code yet Hopefully i'm not going to get one later So I hope you guys enjoyed this install this little testing so you guys can see the stock versus aftermarket wastegates and so on and so forth And it's not that hard of an install. It's just it's just kind of awkward to get in there. So but it takes maybe 30 minutes tops maybe even less Because yesterday I did it in about 15 minutes But I was just kind of flopping things around and things were flying like the retainer pin I lost the nut there as well. So If you take your time just do it, right? 30 minutes tops. It's pretty easy to do. It's not that hard and yeah, i'm not even going to bother doing any kind of uh, Performance testing 10 to 60 30 to 70 all that stuff, especially right now There's too many cars out and I don't want to do it after work. Honestly, I don't think it's going to make That much of a difference because I already did the testing with the wastegate disconnected so we saw What it did with uh with more boost I mean, maybe might I don't know. I don't know maybe if I feel like it i'll do it later But right now I don't want to Uh, i'm sure you guys are bored with all those tests. It's all kind of the same and nothing too exciting but Maybe if I feel like it i'll do it later and uh show you guys the results If i'll show you guys the results if there's any kind of improvement, but I don't think there's going to be any anything better Until I actually start doing other mods like the tuner turbo wheel Injectors so on and so forth, which I don't want to do injectors. Maybe a turbo wheel after I do a tuner But for now, that'd be it. So guys, I hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks for watching and we'll see you on the next one See ya You