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FiveLeeter918
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Yeah buddy!
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luigisho
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Temps during run?
looks like it was mid to upper 70's with a 2k DA
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I was thinking high ambient--that's chilly!
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It was about 75 degrees out.
Humidity was around 50%. Temperatures were dropping rapidly. I calculated. A da of a little over 1500 or 1300 depending on which calculator used.
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Well my new charge pipes arrived on monday. I ordered the uncoated pipes. Everything looked pretty good when I unpacked it. I decided to ceramic coat the pipes with header ceramic. So I painted them and then heat cured them in the oven.
Today I tackled installing the pipes. It was a little bit of a pain, but not too bad.
Now for the bad news. Unfortunately the charge pipe with the **** off valve mounts has a faulty weld and is leaking form a pinhole. I will have to wait till tomorrow to hear from Lee or EcoBoost performance on what to do about this. The weld is in a spot that's hard to get at so it's just luck of the draw that it happened to be leaking.
Here's a picture of the Gap I found that was leaking.
Today I tackled installing the pipes. It was a little bit of a pain, but not too bad.
Now for the bad news. Unfortunately the charge pipe with the **** off valve mounts has a faulty weld and is leaking form a pinhole. I will have to wait till tomorrow to hear from Lee or EcoBoost performance on what to do about this. The weld is in a spot that's hard to get at so it's just luck of the draw that it happened to be leaking.
Here's a picture of the Gap I found that was leaking.
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So I ended up ceiling up the leak with black RTV silicone. Apparently EPP is where the problem is going to try and see if they can rectify it on later runs of the parts. Cross your fingers.
For the long weekend I've picked up a few odds and ends to try and make my own twin filter intake for the MKS.
For the long weekend I've picked up a few odds and ends to try and make my own twin filter intake for the MKS.
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Okay I got the dual intake installed. First thing I discovered was I have a **** off valve that wasn't sealing properly. There was a small imperfection in one of the seals. I swapped in my spare set of **** off valves from the parts car stash. I dropped .2 off my 0 to 30 and .4 off 0 to 60 time. I did a log of my runs. With traction control on there was a lot of wastegate fluctuation in lower gears with a slight chirp at takeoff.
With traction control on there was a single wastegate opening right at the start coinciding with the chirp of the tires on takeoff. I was pushing 14.8 PSI by the end of first gear. So I need to start practicing my take off to avoid the chirping of the tires on lunch. I'm going to have to see what I can do with tire pressure and possibly swap the MKS rear shocks back in. They have more low speed compression dampening then the SHO shocks. So this should help control weight transfer to the rear on launch.
With traction control on there was a single wastegate opening right at the start coinciding with the chirp of the tires on takeoff. I was pushing 14.8 PSI by the end of first gear. So I need to start practicing my take off to avoid the chirping of the tires on lunch. I'm going to have to see what I can do with tire pressure and possibly swap the MKS rear shocks back in. They have more low speed compression dampening then the SHO shocks. So this should help control weight transfer to the rear on launch.
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LMfnassoff love the redneck intake box! one thing with the hot pipes I have found the edges on the flanges for the bov are sharp and the fit is very tight. I ended up sanding the sharp edge off to make if a bit round to help prevent cutting the bov diaphrams when you install them.
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Only the finest enginerd'en here eh. Lol
You should have seen what I had to do to stuff a full size Volvo intercooler in the front of a 91 Isuzu impulse RS all wheel drive turbo. Tight fit.
Yeah I will check into those Sharp edges tomorrow. The bore hole and the shouldered edge aren't concentric in mine. Meaning the hole in the center is off-center. So that doesn't help either. I have a deburring tool I should use.
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More redneck enginerding here.
I never liked how much the hot
coolant pipes heated up the intake. So I looked and thought it said take a stab at separating thermostat housing from intake manifold. Once I get it back together I'll find out whether or not intake temperatures are lower.
I never liked how much the hot
coolant pipes heated up the intake. So I looked and thought it said take a stab at separating thermostat housing from intake manifold. Once I get it back together I'll find out whether or not intake temperatures are lower.
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i like where this is going definetly am onboard if this works....(starts dusting off the dremel)
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It's not an easy job it's tight in there. Have to watch it for core shift as well as these are castings.
I thermal coated and Heat cured underneath the manifold and the surface of the thermostat housing.
Worked at a research lab once for a short while doing stuff with thermal coating durability and heat transfer properties.
So we won't find out until tomorrow how it works.
FiveLeeter918
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We've had a few others in the group including John Diaz go through and coat and thermal wrap everything when we had the phenolic spacer group buy a while back, but never really got any good data to back up the differences that I saw.
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That's too bad it would have been an interesting Benchmark to compare against. I suspect though it might have been limited due to the attachment of thermostat housing to the intake manifold. If you go for a drive in cool weather and put your hand on the manifold you can clearly feel the heat from the thermostat end. While the throttle body and will be cooler.
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Okay I got the manifold installed today.
I took a little drive around and check temperatures. Heat soak seems to be about the same. Maybe 2-3°F cooler. Temperatures while driving are 10-15° cooler than just with the Gearhart intercooler. With a best of 17° over ambient while driving. Intake temperatures fluctuate with throttle opening, but I cannot remember if it was this rapid before or not.
I suspect a spacer would drop temperatures even more.
Tha inside passages are ceramic coated as well.
Not as big of a difference in temperatures as I had hoped. It was 78° out.
I took a little drive around and check temperatures. Heat soak seems to be about the same. Maybe 2-3°F cooler. Temperatures while driving are 10-15° cooler than just with the Gearhart intercooler. With a best of 17° over ambient while driving. Intake temperatures fluctuate with throttle opening, but I cannot remember if it was this rapid before or not.
I suspect a spacer would drop temperatures even more.
Tha inside passages are ceramic coated as well.
Not as big of a difference in temperatures as I had hoped. It was 78° out.
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