Which HPOP
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From: Hartford, WI
Originally Posted by FN74
The downside, if you wnat to call it that, is you HAVE to do a custom fuel system. The stock fuel bowl will no longer fit.
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From: New York
Originally Posted by aklim
I'd call that a major drawback. That means you have to have a heated fuel filter somewhere else.
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From: Columbia, MO
You don't necessarily need a fuel heater. I've run 2 winters now without a fuel bowl or any type of heating element for my fuel. Winter temps here in Missouri get down to well below freezing. We had several nights last winter below 0, and I have never had a problem with fuel gelling at all. I always use a winter additive as well. Not once in the last two years has the truck refused or been difficult to start.
Also, if you have an externally regulated fuel system, once the truck is running, all the fuel that's going through the heads is getting warmed before it returns to the tank, where it mixes and warms the rest of the fuel.
I sometimes wonder about the stock fuel heater though, and how much good it actually does since you've still got cold fuel in the lines. It may heat the fuel in the bowl, but if the lines are gelled, you've still got a problem. I would think the lines would be more prone to gelling than the bowl, given their smaller size and smaller quantity of fuel.
Also, if you have an externally regulated fuel system, once the truck is running, all the fuel that's going through the heads is getting warmed before it returns to the tank, where it mixes and warms the rest of the fuel.
I sometimes wonder about the stock fuel heater though, and how much good it actually does since you've still got cold fuel in the lines. It may heat the fuel in the bowl, but if the lines are gelled, you've still got a problem. I would think the lines would be more prone to gelling than the bowl, given their smaller size and smaller quantity of fuel.
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Originally Posted by jtharvey
I sometimes wonder about the stock fuel heater though, and how much good it actually does since you've still got cold fuel in the lines. It may heat the fuel in the bowl, but if the lines are gelled, you've still got a problem. I would think the lines would be more prone to gelling than the bowl, given their smaller size and smaller quantity of fuel.
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From: Middle Tennessee
Originally Posted by Badluck
hmm so to run the swamp kit you have to run a bigger fuel system as well??
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From: The Dalles Oregon
hmm ic ic, well the only thing that was turning me away from swamps was I thought you had to change that stuff... but eventually all that stuff will change eventually with the fass set up and the big line kit and reg return
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All I can say here is that the stock system will support some serious HP. Remove the stock restrictors and the sky is the limit so to speak, but the stock injection system cannot take advantage of it until something else happens. Bigger oil or better injectors. Take your pick. I lean towards big oil unless my injectors are getting weak. Big oil will make my stockers that much better, while new injectors may have little results if my HPOP is marginal.
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