I just got done installing a three pod pillar in my truck yesterday, and i was out driving and at wot egt's got up to 1600! I know thats to hot. I have a magnaflow,af1,and superchips 1715 that was set on tow performance. What can i do to lower these or did i mount the probe in a bad spot.its mounted a little farther down the manifold than it suggests. and also the trans temp barely reached 150 after an hour drive. Is that normal as well?

 

The probe should be mounted on the front cylender on the driver side of the engine and about one inch from the head, I mounted my sensor from the top down and made shure the probe did not hit the bottom of the manifold, I run a powredyne supercharger with 10# of boost Troyer 94 octane Max performance tune running 11.2 air/fuel and have never seen over 1400 degree on a highspeed run up a long grade at 130 MPH Unless that sensor is in a bad location I would not operate the truck with those temps. 1440 degrees should be the max safe temperature.
As far as trans temp sounds about right.

 

my probe is installed a little far down. I drilled it from the fender well. Would the probe being in this posistion cause it to make false readings. I mean i would almost think it would be cooler down there.But could it actually be hotter in its lower posistion? If its recording the temps properly could it be the programmer? Im also running 35" tires on stock gears. Could this cause the engine to run hot turning the tires? I wouldnt think it would.

 

I'm not shure what the temp differance would be For mounting. When I talked to Mike troyer he was very deffinate where to properly locate the sensor, so I did as he said. That is a touchy subject, to be safe why don't you return the truck to the stock tune and see what the temperature does. that will give you an indication as to if the tune is safe. Tires will add some load but will not make that much differance. was the guage new and did you connect the wires properly. Also you cannot cut or add to the wires as that will cause bad readings. Timing and fuel ratio is the leading cause of high EGT's if the timing is retarded it can also make high egt's. Many truck will not go into open loop operation at wide open throttle and a generic tune does not change that issue, if it does not go into open loop and the engine is being tuned by the oxygen sensors rather than commanded fuel ratio you may be running lean. You May want to get some info from the chip and tuner section and give Mike Troyer a call He may be able to help you.

 

So i went out and uninstalled my programmer(wow really feel the diferance without it on there) and the temps still got to 1600. and all the excess wire to the probe is ziptied safely under the hood. When i floor it the air/fuel gauge reads rich,so its not leaning out. Man im stumped. Do i have a truck that just runs hot or what?