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thanks A K and Buddy for your help. I had the turbo off once and ran the serial #, apparently its a borg warner gm8 (but I agree its not like any other gm8) the exhaust housing and air housing seems larger than stock. As for the drilled air box... I did that my self and really noticed a dif...

Thank you very much. Any ideas what kind of turbo it is? It says GM8. Thanks

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These are some pics of the rest of the intake http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy360/trillium5/mechanical/100_5278.jpg http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy360/trillium5/mechanical/100_5277.jpg http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy360/trillium5/mechanical/100_5276.jpg Thanks

Here are the links to the pictures. Any information you can give me will be greatly appreciated. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy360/trillium5/mechanical/100_5279.jpg http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy360/trillium5/mechanical/100_5278.jpg...

Thanks for all the input I will post some pictures within the next day or two I remember the model gm8 turbo by Borg Warner when I ran the model and serial from the tag (thats when I did the exhaust manifold gaskets) but It has a smaller diameter outlet on the air side. (and 18 psi of...

I'm hoping some one might be able to help me out. I recently bought a 1998 suburban with what I was told had a marine 6.5 engine installed in it. How can I tell a marine engine from a regular eng????? The only thing I can tell that is different from every other 6.5 that Ive seen is that...

Horse power Blues Ive built engines for most of my cars and boats and wasted lots of money having dynoed some of them only to realize that all dynos are not created equal.They are good to get a base-line result and then start fiddling to improve performance. I ll bet if you bring your...

Hi everybody!: After looking through just some of the info available in this site I am really impressed and glad I signed up. With that said heres a little about me. Just purchased a 98 suburban 1500 4x4 with what I was told has a 6.5 marine diesel and a blown up transfer case that I changed...

Thanks for the input 6.2 Turbo I was checking things out yesterday and found that the guy before me changed the left cv shaft with the wrong one (abs tone ring on the cv shaft) so I cut off the tone ring and moved the cv boot clamp over.(both tone ring and clamp were virtually touching the...

Thanks for your reply. I havent yet unpluged the actuator but I did lift the front wheels and switched the hubs (as it were) on and off and everything worked smoothly (no weird sounds or binding) cv shafts are good to.

Need help with a weird problem in my 98 4x4 diesel suburban. First I should mention that I changed the transfer case to a 241c manual shift from a 246 push button (had to disconnect the 4x4 module and ground out a particular term. when in 4wd, also wired a switch to the front axle actuator to...