Many of you have followed my ISB170 / 08 Dakota build for the last 7 years. Its been a great truck for towing our small 5th wheel all over the US and Canada from coast to coast.
Its time to build my "old man" truck and concede to an automatic transmission.
It still has to be unique so it will have the ISB 170 and an Allison 5 or 6 speed.
I just pulled the motor/trans from the donor van today and will completely rebuild it so I have a reliable base to work from.
I'm currently cleaning up loose ends on the Dakota before selling it to finance the new truck.
Here is a list of what I plan for the engine at this point.
Holset Super HX30, a bit more turbo than the regular HX30 that I have been running on the Dakota and love.
33% over on the injectors which is the same as the Dakota.
Steed Speed exhaust manifold like the Dakota.
Colt Cams does a stage 2 grind for these engines that is supposed to really "wake them up"
ECU tune to raise the RPM to 3200 and a bit more fuel like my Dakota.
This would be pretty much the same engine as the Dakota but with the larger turbo and cam regrind.
I think it should make a reliable and economical tow vehicle engine.
Nice to have you on the Forum. I hope you post some info about your build on the "roll call" thread.
Member jr2185 on this forum did the programing. The 5.9 (33% over) injectors and super HX30 are also good upgrades.
I will do my best to make a build thread on the truck. Thanks for the info. I have been a diesel mechanic for 10 years now and have done plenty of Cummins swaps but this is my first common rail 4bt
Many of you have followed my ISB170 / 08 Dakota build for the last 7 years. Its been a great truck for towing our small 5th wheel all over the US and Canada from coast to coast.
Its time to build my "old man" truck and concede to an automatic transmission.
It still has to be unique so it will have the ISB 170 and an Allison 5 or 6 speed.
I just pulled the motor/trans from the donor van today and will completely rebuild it so I have a reliable base to work from.
I'm currently cleaning up loose ends on the Dakota before selling it to finance the new truck.
Here is a list of what I plan for the engine at this point.
Holset Super HX30, a bit more turbo than the regular HX30 that I have been running on the Dakota and love.
33% over on the injectors which is the same as the Dakota.
Steed Speed exhaust manifold like the Dakota.
Colt Cams does a stage 2 grind for these engines that is supposed to really "wake them up"
ECU tune to raise the RPM to 3200 and a bit more fuel like my Dakota.
This would be pretty much the same engine as the Dakota but with the larger turbo and cam regrind.
I think it should make a reliable and economical tow vehicle engine.
Me to, just for shifting. With the NV4500 trans I would shift twice just crossing and intersection with the 2600 RPM limit.
I now have a 3200 limit but I don't think I have ever gone that high, usually shift in the 2400 - 3000 range just those few hundred RPM's make a big difference for driveability.
John ( jr2185 ) on this forum can tune your ECU to get you more RPM and more power. I just went with the 3200 and a bit more power in the 1800 - 3200 range. Could do with a bit more at the lower RPM's while towing.
I know a few guys are running the stock Allison 1000 5 speed that came behind most of these engines. Has anyone found a way to get the later 6 speeds to work with the 170's ECU??
I know a few guys are running the stock Allison 1000 5 speed that came behind most of these engines. Has anyone found a way to get the later 6 speeds to work with the 170's ECU??
Nice to have you on the Forum. I hope you post some info about your build on the "roll call" thread.
Member jr2185 on this forum did the programing. The 5.9 (33% over) injectors and super HX30 are also good upgrades.
Will a super HX30 turbo bolt to the stock ISB170 manifold or will it need an adapter or use the steed speed manifold. From what I can find, the stock manifold is T28 for the HY30W. The super hx30 turbo is T3. Just try trying to confirm. Also appreciate all this common rail conversations, get more of these on the road. Hopefully build some aftermarket support.
Well that’s to bad.
I wonder if you can change the throttle position sensor to the cable sensor on the gm 2500 trucks. Or adapt a second Williams TPS to your existing throttle pedal and in your TCM change the throttle from J1939 to TPS. Seems like you can have a shop with the Allison DOC software change this possibly. Sun Coast and Pacific Performance Engineering make a 5 to 6 speed conversion kit also.
I'm looking at an ISB170 for my project it's complete with exception of the ECM. Does anyone have a good idea on where to find one? I've been skimming the internet all afternoon and it looks like it may be a little too costly to be worth while. About $900 dollars is the least expensive one I've...
So I am chasing this 434 code again. Anytime I connect to the ecm via insite, it goes and throws a 434 code and will stay active. I looked in the fault history and it has happened 68 times. Looks like it was an issue before I got the engine. I’ll be on hunt for a ecm seems like. Code goes away...
everyone mentions the european or brazilian f250 3.9 isb to have a 205-250 hp tune on the ecm. but can anyone actually come up with an engine serial number, a cpl number, or a vehical vin number so it might be possible to get this tune from cummins through quickserve. even a part number for the...
So looks like we have an aftermarket ECU option for Common Rail. Ruud Visser at RV engineering has running models of the ISB 170 with a adaptronic ECU. Looks like I need to save some cash and get going on one of these.
Just wanted to know if these computers were being re-programmed yet? Smarty? EFI Live? Stand Alone? I am to understand that you can do turbo upgrades and that the injectors can also be upgraded as they are the same as '03-'04.5 5.9CR. I think someone said that the '03-'04.5 TST MP-8 box will...
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