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Old Sep 15, 2007 | 11:23 PM
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Lightning GT40 upper intake?
Guys I need to know ASAP if the Lightning GT40 Upper intake will fit a explorer 5.0 lower intake?
 
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Old Sep 16, 2007 | 11:55 PM
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I'd doubt it, The GT-40 intake has large round ports.
 
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Old Sep 17, 2007 | 08:12 AM
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Well.. the Explorer intake is a solid casting copy of the Lightinng/GT-40 intake.. internally they are identical. I believe the Explorer upper is squashed a little for hood clearance compared to the Lightning. The pics I have say it's a direct bolt-on, but the only thing to be gained here is looks, the tubular GT-40 upper is pretty sexy!!
 
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Old Sep 18, 2007 | 01:11 AM
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Ok, I may be wrong on this, I thought they were more like the older car intakes.
 
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Old Sep 18, 2007 | 09:21 AM
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Lightning Intake

Explorer Intakes

97-01 Explorer lower, Lightning lower, 96-97 Explorer lower

They look the same height to me.
 
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Old Sep 18, 2007 | 08:07 PM
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Great comparison photos 51 Dueller. They are worth thousands of words!
 
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Old Sep 18, 2007 | 08:41 PM
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see if they take the same gasket..........
 
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great pics look like it would work......
 
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One difference is that the explorer uses external EGR, but if I remember correctly, Jrock, you're not running EGR at all, are you?
 
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96 to early 97 still had an internal EGR. The late 97 to 2001 were the ones with the external EGR. Here's a pic from my 96 Explorer intake.
 
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Thanks for that info! I could have sworn that my friend's 96 5.0 explorer had an external EGR, though.
 
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