Which intake?
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Which intake?
Tomorrow I'm getting my truck back from the body shop and my tax return is in.Happy, happy, joy, joy. So its time to start doing some enginework.
My plenum is leaking and I've been needing to replace it for a while. Since I've got some extra money I'm wanting to buy a hughes intake stage 1. Who has one right now? Is it worth the 400 + for the intake. Or should I go and buy an intake from the junk yard, buy the plenum fix kit and rework it? I have no experience in doing it and I'm not sure what tools make it the easiest.
So input please. Hughes or do one myself?
My plenum is leaking and I've been needing to replace it for a while. Since I've got some extra money I'm wanting to buy a hughes intake stage 1. Who has one right now? Is it worth the 400 + for the intake. Or should I go and buy an intake from the junk yard, buy the plenum fix kit and rework it? I have no experience in doing it and I'm not sure what tools make it the easiest.
So input please. Hughes or do one myself?
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RE: Which intake?
The Huges intake works well, I have not used one on my truck, but my friend uses one on his Dak and it runs out real nice...I would check summit too...MOPAR performance makes a direct replacement intake for the 5.9 with all the mounting bosses for your accesories and its made for MPI.....its 349 i think and doesnt have a 100 dollar core charge...Hughes wants 400 bucks for the intake then 100 bucks for the core AND you have to ship the core back....and with the MOPAR part "I think it eliminates the need for that stupid pan gasket
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RE: Which intake?
I know there are a couple of guys on the forum who have shortened their runners and reworked their intake manifolds and loved the way their truck ran after doing that. I just don't know if I want to spend the money to buy Hughes or try doing it myself. Plus shortening the runners moves the powerband up a little higher in the rpms. I'm not wanting to be almost through the powerband while crusing on the road.
Stock intakes are cherry around the 2000 rpm mark and then fall flat. I'm looking to move that up to 3000. Which will be closer to my running rpms.
But those numbers could be just made up. At least that is what I've read over the internet. If I'm wrong, then I'm gonna spend the money on a worked manifold.
Stock intakes are cherry around the 2000 rpm mark and then fall flat. I'm looking to move that up to 3000. Which will be closer to my running rpms.
But those numbers could be just made up. At least that is what I've read over the internet. If I'm wrong, then I'm gonna spend the money on a worked manifold.
