Wondering if anyone has installed a Pusher Intake on their truck? If so, what are your thoughts on how well it works over the stock system, etc?

https://pusherintakes.com/-s/79.htm

TIA

 

I installed one.

the intake looks cool ..but…if I had a Redue I would get one of the ones that keeps the stock lower half .

upon installing the intake I started to get p0069 codes. Spent a lot of time looking at this and long story short ….during shut down ..the pcm will close the throttle body…with the stock intake there is enough volume to prevent a map drop so all is good on the stock system. Put in the pusher and less internal air volume and pusher moved the egr connect very close to the map sensor…so I kept getting map drops down to 4 at shut down and then it creeps back up. If the map does not return to normal in 20 seconds..p0069.

I took the pusher intake off and shelved it for a while and put the stick one back on…no p0069 with the stick one.

Keep in mind that at shut down the turbo keeps spinning and since the pusher egr tube connects super close to the map…the vaccume from shutdown cuases a map drop .

i talked to pusher about this and they said they never had this happen . Not sure how many deleted setups they sell vs non deleted.

I replaced my throttle body , map, mass, IAT, ebp, etc and the p0069 is definitely due to the pusher architecture.

the p0069 is s big deal in ny since we get emissions tested every year and the p0069 will put the emissions in not ready and clearing the p0069 will require the readiness drive cycle. A big PIA.

in my case my solution was to remove the throttle body again and drill a 3/8’s hole in the throttle body plate. The hole prevents the p0069 becuase the map drop and return only takes 4 seconds .the hole does not seem to effect anything else but only time will tell if I created a new problem to fix an old one. I have about 1500 miles with the hole in the throttle body plate.

im also thinking of using and angled washer to change the angle of the throttle body plate so that it does not fully close on shut down . I have an extra plate to try that.

also wondering if I put an inrush linter on the plate control circuit if that would slow the plate close down so that the map drop would not occur with the stock plate.

i have a 2019 and don’t know if this is a 17 thru 19 bug.

pusher was interested in this but did not have a fix.

also, the pusher intake gets super hot during regens and the first time I regened I had smoke coming from my engine bay due to the powder coating burning off something that caused it to smoke.

the boot from the air filter is a little tricky to seat and will sometimes slide off as you tighten it.

performance wise I regen less and pull power better than with the stock intake.

I have the banks air box, pusher intake, pusher cold side, banks dpf back pipe. And the deringer, pedal monster. Mentioning this becuase I don’t think there is a big wow factor with just replacing the pusher intake alone.

but I can t recommend the pusher intake in light of the p0069 problem and the money I spent to eliminate any possibility the the p0969 was due to parts on my engine vs the pusher intake.

since I have been in contact with pusher and did not get a solution, not a partial refund due to the money I have spent throwing parts at this to eliminate my engine as the problem , I have no problem not recommending the pusher intake.


what I would recommend is this one. It keeps the stock lower half so you definitely will not get a p0069 due to the proximity of where the egr tube is relative to the map.


https://www.thoroughbreddiesel.com/hsm122018/

 

Thanks for all the info.

I too, have the Banks Air box, pedal monster, idash w/derringer setup and was wondering how these would work together.

 

This is the one I recomnend

 

What are you looking to gain with this intake?

 

My buddy has an '18 F350 dually......did the Pusher and boasts about a night and day difference, especially when towing his 5th wheel (14k lbs.). He says the breathability that the engine does now is so much better than stock. His egt's have been lower, spool up is faster, mpg's the same but does notice a huge difference in drivability.

 

Does his truck still have the stock exhaust and DPF?

 

Hoping to, by getting rid of the stock intake, can improve reliability from the plastic that is prone to cracking, leaking etc. Improvements in drive ability, cleaner engine compartment are pluses, but not the primary goal.

 

Sounds like another reason to go with someone else on this is customer service! Have seen lots of positive stuff, but the negative things that I’ve seen concern me. Sounds like they aren’t very concerned about helping someone that has any issues with their products.

 

There have been quite a few Super Duty owners who have installed the Pusher kit. One of the popular YouTube techs has been offering it as sort of an upgrade menu item he installs. Fritz has been the only one that I've read of having weird side effects believed to be from the Pusher kit.

 

I know. His is the first of this type of issue that I’ve heard of. Never would have thought that the intake would get that hot to burn off residue from manufacturing the system either. I’m fortunate, that we don’t live in an area where we have emissions testing so not too concerned if that did happen to mine, but it could affect other things I guess.

 

Didn't know the plastic part of the intake was prone to cracking. My truck has 288k miles and 12 years and the plastic intake hasn't been touched. I did replace the hot side CAC tube as they're know to crack and break under boost.

 

Here is the video of the map drop at shut down with pusher intake.

map is lower left.

 

Here’s a video of the map drop with pusher intake after I drilled a 3/8 hole in the throttle body butterfly valve

 

And to summarize

does not happen with stock intake. I installed the pusher intake and took it off. Someone from pusher reached out to me and offered to help so I put the pusher intake back on. No help from pusher so I changed parts related to the problem to make sure it was not my motor .

im not deleted and have a 2019. 24k miles on the motor.