Tuckerdee

YeeHaw!!! My buddy, who somehow has an "in" with somebody at Banks Engineering just sent me a FREE shiny new Twin Ram Intake Manifold and sundry parts to install it with.

So...since this piece is designed for a 2nd Gen...will it work my my old 92? Please, please, please, please, tell me that it will. (I just got it at the office today and haven't been home to pop the hood on the old dog to take a look-see.)

It sure is a nice and shiny piece of polished aluminum! Also, assuming it works, is there need for grid heaters in both sides of the intake or is one sufficient. I should assume that one will work...especially since I keep my truck in the garage most all the time and it doesn't get to freaking cold in there.

Can't wait for xmas to come and go so that I'll have some time to work on this!

whereswaldo250

BC847 has one on his truck and I'm shure he would be glad to chime in and tell you about it.
Good luck!

flashgordon

I'm pretty sure that he had to have new,.......custom bent, inj line made to make it work!!!

sdstriper

That is a sweet intake. Would you need a spacer even if you go with one grid heater? May as well shop one off Ebay ASAP, don't have to hook it up...

Tuckerdee

Well, what I've figured out so far is that I'll need some custom bent injector lines. The grid heaters aren't a problem apparently since there's "a set of 2" stacked in our factory intakes. You just seperate them and install one in each horn.

BC847

I had custom IP lines bent from Schied. They were the folks who I bought the TwinRam (non-EGR style) from and with that, they mocked-up a 5.9 block in the shop with the intake and bent the tubing to fit.



Once I got the parts from them, I still had to drill and tap a hole for the charge-air temperature sensor (no big deal).
As per the Banks instructions, you have to disassemble your OEM heater block and remove the heater grids (there's two grids in there). They are then installed in the twin heater blocks of the TwinRam intake. That was the more challenging of the lot as they needed coaxing to fit correctly.
I had to relocate the dip-stick assembly (Tye-wrapped it to the master cylinder).

You would do well to have them include some extra IP line clamp things so you can ensure the lines are mounted solidly with no chance of vibrating/worrying a hole in them.

The intake is three inch so you'll need to keep that in mind when considering the inter-cooler feed.


After it was all said and done, I think it was well worth it. Effectively doubled the area of the former bottle-neck intake horn. Slight to part throttle performance improved with a matching drop in EGTs. WOT is all the more better. Further, I can still enjoy the benefits of the heaters when needed.

Understand, by itself and changing nothing else, the intake adds no power. But when you include it with all the other air-flow improvements one can make (BHAF, appropriate exhaust housing, better intercooler, etc), it makes a BIG difference power wise . . . with added fuel.

By itself, a work-truck will see reduced EGTs along with more even individual cylinder EGTs.



Hope this helps, and have fun!

sdstriper

And this is one cool looking set-up

Cowboy_Customs

Thats sweet. What did those custom line run ya?