air intake advice
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air intake advice
was thinking of putting a afe stage one air intake on my 2000 ford excursion xlt with the 7.3 powerstroke deisel motor it has stock air filter and now has 94,000 miles on her also thinking of putting a 4 inch exhast and a buying a superchips 1705 any advice?? i tow a trailer its 26 feet and around 6000 pounds
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From: IDAHO
I put one on my 03 7.3, along with 4 inch exhaust and the Edge juice with attitude controller with great results. I think I would rather have the hypertech one that also has the tranny temp.
The stage one uses the existing box and tubing. One thing I didn't notice until pointed out to me was the way the intake from the filter forward runs right into two walls. I cut both of them, but if I had to do it all over, I would just cut the fiberglass part, and just drill small holes through the heat shroud to keep the big objects from getting through. I found a steel mesh filter that I put there instead. I was worried about water getting through, but I have driven it in the rain and checked the intake and it was fine.
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The stage one uses the existing box and tubing. One thing I didn't notice until pointed out to me was the way the intake from the filter forward runs right into two walls. I cut both of them, but if I had to do it all over, I would just cut the fiberglass part, and just drill small holes through the heat shroud to keep the big objects from getting through. I found a steel mesh filter that I put there instead. I was worried about water getting through, but I have driven it in the rain and checked the intake and it was fine.
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From: Rapid City SD
Got mine yesterday
Just installed an AFE stage 1 yesterday. Took maybe 15 minutes, and thats after cleaning the oily gunk that was in the intake tube. Immediately the mpg in the lie-o-meter started going up (I had just reset it 10 miles prior) advertized gain is 1-2 mpg, but on mine it's a little over 3 so far in in-town driving. Don't know, but cleaning the gunk had to have helped a little also. I will take a lttle road trip tomorrow to see what it does on the highway. If it does the same on the highway, it would make the highway mileage in the 19-20 mpg range. Got mine from DPPI, and they were very helpful, gave me the advice to clean the oily grit out as long as I had the tube off.
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I am thinking of only installing a stage 1 and a 4" turbo back exhaust at this time and was wondering if I need to install a gauge package with that.. I am thinking of adding possibly a Bullydog Pup later after I see what this does and if I understand it correctly,it downloads all the temps and that sort of thing w/o the gauges...
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From: Tennesee
reeladdiction,
You'll be amazed at the different truck performance!!! Get teh MBRP exhaust as it fits the EX's fuel tank correctly! The AFE STage II or Stage Ii are by far the best product, espeically with the PG7 filter. The Superchip or the Edge EVO are hard to beat for the performance they give. We ALWAYS reccomend gauges with any electronic HP upgrade, any vendor that doesn't just isn't being honest with you on EGT's and trans temps etc. Call us if you have any questions we'll be glad to help you on them and make sure you get the right parts for your application and how you use the truck etc.
Mark @ DPPI
You'll be amazed at the different truck performance!!! Get teh MBRP exhaust as it fits the EX's fuel tank correctly! The AFE STage II or Stage Ii are by far the best product, espeically with the PG7 filter. The Superchip or the Edge EVO are hard to beat for the performance they give. We ALWAYS reccomend gauges with any electronic HP upgrade, any vendor that doesn't just isn't being honest with you on EGT's and trans temps etc. Call us if you have any questions we'll be glad to help you on them and make sure you get the right parts for your application and how you use the truck etc.
Mark @ DPPI
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