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Old 04-09-2017, 03:21 PM
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What intercooler do I have? (97 F250 7.3)

Long story short, I am looking to see if anybody on here can identify what intercooler I have in my truck, just based off the pictures I took. I am thinking I have the 7.3 superduty one based one what I have seen online, but not knowing what one looks like in person, I do not know.
I bought the truck 2 days before Christmas for a steal, and my dumb@$$ didn't even see it had an intercooler already installed until days later. It is just the intercooler with the core support modified as it is currently installed. No pipes. I'm trying to figure this out so I can figure out what I need to find to complete the setup and have it functioning.

I just put in stage 1 injectors from Rosewood, and have DP tunes (7 positions if you include position 0 for no start). I have low fuel, modified stock, 60 HP tow, 60HP daily drive, 80HP and 100HP settings. I have glowshift triple gauges, EGT, BOOST, and Fuel. My fuel pressure drops too low in my 2 highest settings, the highest basically just bogs down, and the 2nd highest I don't try to use longer than a few seconds as if I get fully into it, the psi drops below 40. So E Fuel is also coming as well. But, I figured since I already have an intercooler installed, it would make sense to piece that together first. Anyways, I am attaching pictures I took with how it is installed. Whoever did it put some mesh material in front of it, I'm assuming because it was a pretty dusty area where they lived.












 
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Looks like plastic 7.3 unit. Why did they not cap the ends tho?!?!?_ going to remove and clean before you use it I hope.
 
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Looks like plastic 7.3 unit. Why did they not cap the ends tho?!?!?_ going to remove and clean before you use it I hope.
I thought it was aluminum. The one I have at least seems to be.

And Yeah I'm going to have to clean it extremely well. Part of me is even preparing to have to replace it as well. It has been modified already which is nice so at least I don't have to do that.
 
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The plastic is in reference to the tanks on either end. The core is always aluminum
 
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I guess I'm not seeing the plastic ends. But, if its a SD intercooler with plastic ends, isn't the inlet and outlet also plastic?
 
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Glenn is rite, thats an e99-00 IC. All aluminum you can definitely wash it out and re-use it.
 
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Glenn is rite, thats an e99-00 IC. All aluminum you can definitely wash it out and re-use it.
Thank you. Yeah I don't plan on hooking it up before cleaning it, just needed to know where to start.
 
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I guess I'm not seeing the plastic ends. But, if its a SD intercooler with plastic ends, isn't the inlet and outlet also plastic?
stupid phone,sure looked like plastic tanks. Yea tank and outlets are the same.
 
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