Intercooler Kits?
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Intercooler Kits?
I remember reading some time ago that someone was thinking about making intercooler kits for our PSDs? Anybody know anything about this? I will be fabbing one up next month.
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Ive seen the kits out there. Hypermax sales a kit for around $1400. If your intrested in doing it yourself, I would get some of the parts off of a 99-2003. would save you a little time just might have to mod them a little.
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GTS motorsport makes one but seems they are no very timely. I think on this board Barebackjake was talking about making some. If I am wrong sorry. but it seems thats who was kicking the idea around.
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I am going to get a banks intercooler kit with everything but their technicooler. It should run about $600, then get a 6.0 intercooler off of ebay for <$100.
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Do you think it would be cheaper to go your route foreman? I'm sure I can find all the parts via ebay and the boneyard.
I was thinking I could fab one up for a lot less than $600. Then again, the question rises, do I need it? Especially with a Dp...
I was thinking I could fab one up for a lot less than $600. Then again, the question rises, do I need it? Especially with a Dp...
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all in all for my IC I will have less than $300. I paid 180 shipped for a 7.3 IC with tubes, clamps and boots. got a banks y-pipe and turbo elbow used for $50 and am getting a busted up second set of pipes from a wrecked superduty that I intend to get the extra bends and length from. so unless i need different boots or some mandrel bends I will have $230 bucks in my set up.
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I'm looking on ebay now.. seems like there are a couple 7.3 and 6.0s on there. The 6.0 will work too right? I will base mine off the website given earlier.
TJ, do you have yours installed already? Did you see a great improvement in lower egts? Also how long did it take you to install?
TJ, do you have yours installed already? Did you see a great improvement in lower egts? Also how long did it take you to install?
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I just used a little patience and found a complete GTS kit with a 7.3 intercooler on Ebay for $450.00 and the guy lived 45 mins away from me. He traded his truck in and took it off. I've been looking for about 6 months and just happened to look and there it was.
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No I haven't installe dit yet. waiting to get some clear headlight and turn signal housings to do all at the same time. plus the wife just had a baby last week so my shop has been scaled back a bit. I am hoping in the next month to get it in.
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I know its not the cheap way to do it, but I think it would be the easiest. I dont think my welding ability is good enough to reshape the 99+ tubes.
IMO I dont think a truck with stock injectors needs an ic. I havent towed with the stage 1s but I have a feeling the egts will get up there.
I found this ic with the pipes on ebay (click here).
IMO I dont think a truck with stock injectors needs an ic. I havent towed with the stage 1s but I have a feeling the egts will get up there.
I found this ic with the pipes on ebay (click here).
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I got my cooler local with pipes. I fabed up the pipes I needed from the stock ones. You can look in my gallery and see what I had to do to the pipes. It really wasn't much. The hot side (drivers side) all I had to do was add 3 1/2 inches of straight pipe right after the turbo coupler. The passenger side I used the stock pipe from the intake spider all the way to it's second bend. Then I cut it and added a small angled piece of pipe and 2 long 90* bends making the S part that goes down to the cooler. At the cooler end I just welded on the stock end so the boot would fit right.
Foreman, trust me, if you can mig weld even a little bit, you can do this. I was really suprised at how easy it was. The toughest part of the passenger side was re-arranging my battery cables where they weren't in the path of the pipe. Anyway, look at my intercooler gallery, and maybe it will give you some ideas.
Foreman, trust me, if you can mig weld even a little bit, you can do this. I was really suprised at how easy it was. The toughest part of the passenger side was re-arranging my battery cables where they weren't in the path of the pipe. Anyway, look at my intercooler gallery, and maybe it will give you some ideas.