Kenne Bell intercooler is in!
Jul 10, 2007 | 02:20 PM
#41
Originally Posted by Whippled 496
Man, sounds like some real nice improvements there, thats fantastic. I am moving along with mine, the elbow collapsing thing slowed me down a little. I have 5 cast aluminum elbows coming in today. Two of which will be welded onto my flanges (intake inlet and blower outlet), the other three will replace the 3 silicone ones already in the circuit. I should have them welded up tomorrow and installed Friday/Saturday. This sucker has been 3 weeks getting done.......im getting really antsy to get it on the road again. Can't wait to feel the difference. I hope i dont have any problems welding the cast aluminum...i have read its more difficult to weld than regular plate aluminum. Where i bought it from, It specifically said great for welding....so we will see.
Don't worry about cast aluminum. Just make sure it good and clean. Cast aluminum is a little bit more porus than forged, but nowhere near the difference between cast iron, and steel. Completely different animals.
Jul 10, 2007 | 04:45 PM
#42
On The Tree
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: St George UT
I recently up-graded my air to air intercooler. I had it bulit by PWR and it has a 32" x 24" fin area. They build to size and it is rated at 1500 cfm. I only had a 1 psi pressure drop. It is really noisy though. Under boost it completely drowns out the Magnaflow exhaust and anything else near by. You can actually hear the wine at least two blocks or more away. Maybe with open headers the engine might drown out the intercooler whine, but it would be close. At idle and normal driving it sounds perfectly normal as the twin screw chargers are virtually silent.
Jul 10, 2007 | 05:29 PM
#43
Originally Posted by wkdivr
Don't worry about cast aluminum. Just make sure it good and clean. Cast aluminum is a little bit more porus than forged, but nowhere near the difference between cast iron, and steel. Completely different animals.
Jul 10, 2007 | 06:31 PM
#44
Originally Posted by 91_bowtie
any updates?
Did you use a KB intercooler or get one off ebay? I plan on fabbing one up for my whipple in the next couple months.
Did you use a KB intercooler or get one off ebay? I plan on fabbing one up for my whipple in the next couple months.
JamesBond seems to be MIA, I have been trying to get ahold of him... If you have any intercooler questions I would be happy to answer them for you.. Just let me know.
Jul 11, 2007 | 06:44 PM
#45
Teching In
Joined: Aug 2005
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From: Houston, TX
Radiator hose location?????
Where did you route the radiator neck going into the motor? No room to leave it in the stock location....did you turn it 180 degrees or something? Any pics? I would like to do this on my whipple set up....thanks.
Jul 12, 2007 | 01:22 AM
#46
Originally Posted by Bear500LT
Where did you route the radiator neck going into the motor? No room to leave it in the stock location....did you turn it 180 degrees or something? Any pics? I would like to do this on my whipple set up....thanks.
I ended up getting another new hose tonight, and rerouting it back like it was stock. I always hated that the hot coolant was running right under the intake hat.
Here's a short vid I took after we fired it up... You can see the radiator hose at the beginning of the vid.
Jul 12, 2007 | 09:22 AM
#49
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From: Northern NJ
I'm going to have to check this out a little. You definitely peaked my interest here. I'm running an 00 Sierra with the 5.3L and a Whipple and have always thought there must be someway to i/c it. For those that have the Whipple, how are you going about routing everything? How much cost is involved and who makes the actual intercooler and other parts that I would need? After the install do you need to retune your PCM? Thanks
Jul 12, 2007 | 10:06 AM
#50
Originally Posted by 00z71sierra
I'm going to have to check this out a little. You definitely peaked my interest here. I'm running an 00 Sierra with the 5.3L and a Whipple and have always thought there must be someway to i/c it. For those that have the Whipple, how are you going about routing everything? How much cost is involved and who makes the actual intercooler and other parts that I would need? After the install do you need to retune your PCM? Thanks