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Originally Posted by awsrock
I assume you are talking about a 617?
I have a few takes on this...kind of all over the place but here goes.
IF you only want 150 hp, I believe some have achieved close to this (like 145) with maxing out the stock pump and swapping a newer turbo, exhaust and intercooler in.
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Yes indeed, it is 617. I wrote a longer post about my pump adjusting problems but I thought it disappeared.. but it's now just below this topic on the forum. Anyway to cut it short, when the engine was swapped (N/A to turbo), I also changed the original turbo to 603 turbo and put in an intercooler. I've tried adjusting the pump but I'm not even getting the power the engine should have as stock. That's why pump swap.
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Originally Posted by okyoureabeast
Isn't yours a naturally aspirated engine? I don't recall seeing that they put turbos on your generation of chassis.
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Originally it was NA, now it has the 617 turbo.
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Originally Posted by okyoureabeast
Probably not the suggestion you'll want to hear, but the later style OM 606.964 engine from the 1996+ G-Wagons gets around 20 mpg which I believe is astounding given the brick like qualities of your truck.
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Being early 80s, my truck has older style engine mounts and putting in anything else than 617 would be laborous.