Negative, I'm a bbricknose, 1990. But from what I gather, it's very similar under the hood space wise.
ATS 088 to 093 upgrade
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The_Josh_Bear
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Nah air to air fits just fine on the bricks. With A/C you have to trim a little and whatnot but it's nothing like the bulls.
Best bet from what I read is a 7.3 or 6.0 cooler since they are large but thinner than aftermarket logs like mine-- makes room for the condenser.
Yeah I'm keeping my eye out for a 7.3 kit, but what about the turbo inlet pipe and air filter? Obviously you can't use the factory non-intercooled intake box, right?
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This is what I did.
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Cooler is 3" thick, still 1" to the stock grill. No reason to go with 3" piping BTW, if I did it again I'd do 2.5".
Interesting how the air filter is on the passenger side. Are all these pipes off of a specific vehicle? Or did you fab them up?
I see you have an ac compressor, but your condenser is missing. To be fair it looks like there's enough room for both it and the CAC.
david85
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I'm so jealous of all that real estate you have up front. Did you remove the vertical strap that connects the latch mechanism to the bottom of the core support?
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Yeah I seem to be a rebel and put the BHAF on the passenger side. But I don't like how everyone else forces the hard turn across the engine bay for it, and since nothing else was really over there...It's a straight shot to the air filter, and mostly straight for the compressor outlet. With a nice fat mandrel radius into the engine. Custom(homemade) SS fab work, but hard to seal. I wouldn't do it again, lol. The intake pipe is actually a 3" stainless wide radius 90* that I welded onto a stainless 3"-5" cone. It was a PITA but gets the job done. Except it's so big I can't use the oil pressure port on the turbo. (all SS stick weld cause I can't TIG, yet)
As for the aluminum pipes, I just found a 3" cooler on ebay, and also found a 3" piping kit and figured it all out myself.
Yeah the truck came with A/C and I was single and didn't care to fix it up. I should have. But not with kiddos in car seats I really need to get it working again. I always meant to turn the compressor into onboard air but never did.
I sure did. I figured worst case I could fab something up but the hood closes fine, just a little more effort since the latch isn't as supported. I was actually really nervous at first because I'd just replaced the core support and didn't wanna have to mess with it anymore.
And the way I ran the CDR gas/oil isn't real good. But I couldn't find a 1" oil rated hose nearby so I made due and forgot about it.
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