Good for you taking on this challenge. I like it when people are able to do a mod themselves. I wish I could do this one. Hey great job and keep us updated.
Honestly it always looked like a ton of work to me....but I don't have much time in it so far and it's almost ready to start welding.
One of these belt Sanders and a plasma cutter make short work of it.
Looks good! Built mine a couple of years back. I did all the cutting and a buddy of mine did the finish work and milled it clean and welded it up for me. I mean if you got the skills, time and the truck isn't going to be down why not. Make sure to tackle the egr valve area, lots of work to be done there.
I had planned on gutting all the egr parts......but I got to thinking if the time ever comes it has to have an egr cooler back on I wouldn't want all this port work going to waste by putting a stock manifold back on just for the ever cooler. So I'm going to leave it all there, plug the coolant output on my bpd block and put a stainless disk on top of the doughnut at the front cover to keep the coolant out of the intake. It never made much sense to me to try to cool the charge air with the intercooler then send it into a manifold with 200° coolant running through it.
Wonder if anyone could make a new intake, kinda like a set of headers, only reverse?
bend some tubing weld on some flanges for the heads and a collector for the intake?
i think that would look awesome :grin:
Wonder if anyone could make a new intake, kinda like a set of headers, only reverse?
bend some tubing weld on some flanges for the heads and a collector for the intake?
i think that would look awesome
Anything is possible, just need some imagination, some skill, and the right set of tools (or the wrong set of tools and enough determination to get it done anyways)
Here's a custom one a friend of mine built for his race truck.
Yeah the actual building of a sheet metal intake is the easy part....hard part is getting it to flow correctly and moving everything out of the valley.
I seriously considered a sheet metal intake and twin turbos on mine.
LOL ooohhhh gotcha. I've been playing around with that idea too......properly sizing them to each feed a bank efficiently with enough drive pressure is proving difficult so it's still in the air right now.
HA! Finally pulled the trigger eh? You won't be disappointed :nod:
That's easy....an intercooler with two inlets and one outlet going into a single plane intake.
Or you talking about the turbine side? I would think one exhaust bank could drive one turbo.
Eh you're over thinking it....put em on there and let it eat!
Keep in mine I wasn't after more power, just wanted a clear Valley and a couple polished twins under the hood, if it was as efficient as a single 03 would have been fine with me.
.....I could steal the twins off the mustang. ..hmmmm
I could be wrong but I believe that the turbos on the medium duty international trucks are quite a bit smaller. I thought there was a thread on here where someone put one in their truck. I think it was drunk on diesel.
Lol gotta feed that shiny addiction It would be cool to see that's for sure.
@sbluke no you're not wrong, they are smaller. That, coupled with the low gearing, is why those trucks have more torque at lower RPM at the wheels than we do (in a stock-stock comparison) even with the same engine. The trade off is that torque curve falls off quicker than ours do higher in the revs. Same ish area under the curve, but shifted way to the left.
Works for low geared heavy haulers, not readout that well for higher geared highway trucks where guys want cool EGTS towing in overdrive and good mileage lol.
Edit: either way this has nothing to do with a DIY ported intake so I'll shut up haha
Yes.....and no....Anything will work there's just always a trade off without hitting the "sweet spot" with sizing.
With the ones in question set as twins, they'd most likely still be laggy down low... Even with the VGT to help, pushing the same size turbine with half the exhaust flow is going to take time to get up to speed.
Its amazing the crap that oozes out of the aluminum! when I did my intake I scrubbed and soaked in gas for a week. pressure washed, sandblasted then acid cleaned just before welding. I could still smell the oil cooking out of it!
Curious why you and others who do theirs cut the top section out, as opposed to the way my wpe is cut in half and welded back together. Remaining completely oem fitment wise
I don't have a band saw big enough for that.....I planned on sealing plates for the top (has changed).....far less welding this way.
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