I decided to do it at work so the warranty police (wife) would not know. I though it would be no big deal to do it without an air ratchet. Boy was I wrong! It took me an hour and a half. The rear bolts on the upper intake and the blower were a pain. I also forgot to bring any wobble sockets or a universal joint. If you are going to do this it would be a piece of cake with air tools and wobble sockets. Less than an hour I would think. Well now I have to be a good boy and no WOT until I get my chip back from Sal.


Jerry

 

To help out any one in the future, I found it fairly easy to have put the upper intake and the blower together before putting them in the L.

Gary

 

 

Looking forward to "hearing" a report when everythings right!
Me and Rocks can't be the only 2 people getting the large gains

 

Nathan,

thanks for the pics


Gator,

I can tell a little already. The boost comes on really fast. I made one WOT run for just a few seconds and I saw 15 lbs on the autometer boost gauge. I used to see 12 lbs. I'm running a stock upper and four pound lower. There as no pinging at all but I don't want to chance it so I will stay out of the go pedal until the chip gets here. The blower noise is really different. It's not just louder it has a better tone. I'm running the stock air box with a 2.5" hole in the bottom wth a hose running down to the opening in the bumper next to the innercooler rad. Sal has always said anything over 12 lbs of boost and the stock filter, no matter how many hole are drilled in the bottom will not flow enough. Even though I trust Sal completely I'm not sure I buy that. I really don't want a aftermarket filter. I don't really like the noise. If I have to do it though I will. The thing that gets me is I have had detonation problems every time the temp gets below about 65-70. Sal says some trucks will ping with the stock filter. That make no since to me at all. If the stock filter box was restricting air flow you should never ping. The truck should be running rich if you can't get enough air in. Can someone "splane" that one to me? I want to understand.


Jerry

 

BOOST IS OUR FRIEND
Especially when we can get 15 lbs with a 4lb Pulley
I KNOW THE FEELING, IT'S GRRRRRRRRRRRREAT
CONGRATS Jerry, AND BEST OF LUCK

The Whine is awesome aint it, I mentioned the other day mine sounds like an old hot rod with a gear drive instead of a timing belt,
..........I LOVE IT...........

Gator, you must be seeing insane Boost with a 6 lower
and a 1 to 2 upper

 

Thats a good question, Bruce did you see what your reading for boost on the dyno?

 

Dude he's too drunk to know what season it is

Well just this morning I heard he was on the corner
swinging a bell

 

Gator what are you calling large gains 35-40 horsepower??

 

ROFL

BTW, I'm not gettin any gains out of my apten? I don't know what's up. this thing is a turd???


j/k

 

GOT BOOST?.......I do

came home to get more money and I find this........LMAO

and yeah, I got 40hp and 20ftlbs.....still can't upload the graph

 

Are running these ported blowers ok for a stock block? I'm looking into doing this is all. I have a 6lb lower now but I would change it to a #2 or maybe #4 if I was ported. What is a safe amout of boost for the stock bottom end?

 

Any ideas on running the stock air box with this set-up (Apten with 15 lbs. of boost)?

Jerry

 

Can't answer that, but I will tell you this.........

I run the open cone style filter. I had the outerwear pre-filter over it to catch the large pieces of dirt. One day under the hood with the motor running, I jacked the throttle open a couple times and noticed the pre-filter was being sucked in the crevices of the cone filter. Iam moving so much air, that I belive that the pre-filter was becoming a barrier to the air intering the blower. I removed the prefilter after that

 

Can't suck in a stock airbox