intake elbow ideas

[Gnocide]

switching over to a 60-1 the bend is hard as hell to do plus i need a tight 90 3 inch elbow---sooo----

has anyone used intakehoses.com- cobra head elbow?-

pic is the middle one
http://intakehoses.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=I&Category_Code=CHEW


what are the other options for after market turbos??

 

[kwick6]

Re: intake elbow ideas

Yep, those are good and you can even save a couple bucks going here: :tup:

http://www.detroitturbo.com/cart/product_info.php?products_id=70

 

[Gnocide]

Re: intake elbow ideas

awesome- ill use the board supported vendor instead

 

[0966Sy]

Re: intake elbow ideas

They are also known to collapse with the bigger turbo's.

 

[Gnocide]

Re: intake elbow ideas

collapse??

is a 60-1 a turbo that will collapse it?

whats the other options???

 

[It's just a six]

Re: intake elbow ideas

Maybe if you are using a small restrictive air filter & it is over 300 degrees F

 

[0966Sy]

Re: intake elbow ideas

I havent ever had it happen to me running a T52 but have heard of others having problems with bigger turbo's. The compressor inlet creates so much backpressure and suck's the elbow nearly closed unable to make boost at high demand. A small or resricted air filter could be the culprit. The cobra is a pretty heavy duty elbow.

 

[SY2932]

Re: intake elbow ideas

Maybe if you are using a small restrictive air filter & it is over 300 degrees F

Yep, very rare issue on these trucks AFAIK. The rubber in the cobra elbow is thick. After you get it, you can draw your own conclusion if it's possible or not... I know a member claimed that the nut that held his compressor wheel spun off from the rapid deacceleration of the wheel from high boost due to not having a BOV. There wasn't exactly a massive drive to buy BOV's as a result since it was an isolated incident.