New guy from Utah

mike diesel · Nov 29, 2013

New guy here from SLC Utah.

I will admit right now that i am a duramax guy/owner but love anything diesel. I do indeed think the 6.7 fords look pretty damn nice! Not here to start any pissing matches between brands. Just here to learn!

I can tell you just about anything you would want to know about a duramax and 24 valve cummins but dont know to much about powerstrokes. I find anything with a diesel interesting and fun to mess around with!

A little about me...Mike, will be 25 in january, born and raised in SLC utah!

About my truck...05 LLY duramax crew cab short bed, built trans...built by me with an alligator stage 5 kit with a precision industries ML triple disk converter, Did arp studs when i did my head gaskets, has II 30% injectors, stock cp3, danville 72mm vvt turbo, BT diesel works lock up controller, fass 150 and of course EFI live done by StarLite Diesel. Truck dynoed 602 horse on a conservative tune. Stock cp3 drops rail pressure pretty quick on any bigger tune so we left it at that. Every bit of work on my truck is all done by me except for tuning.

I may turn this into my kind of built thread for anyone who is interested.

mike diesel · Nov 29, 2013

Built front end with torsion bars dropped as low as they go with 2" drop shackles in the rear.

slc dzl · Nov 29, 2013

Welcome.
And yes make a build thread.

mike diesel · Nov 29, 2013

slc dzl said:
Welcome.
And yes make a build thread.

Hey i recognize your truck!

smoker00 · Nov 29, 2013

Welcome

From just west of you..

slc dzl · Nov 29, 2013

mike diesel said:
Hey i recognize your truck!

Yeah I have seen yours to. if your pictures indicate where you live, I'm on the other side of bangeter.
Great looking truck btw.

mike diesel · Nov 29, 2013

Well i guess i will showcase a little bit of custom work i have done. Nothing to crazy but i like it! Basically just copy and paste the entire thread from my other forum.

A new intake i built to help my 72mm vvt breathe.

Decided the afe magnum force that came on my truck is ugly and isnt up to my liking. So im going to make my own.

I also have the AFE turbo inlet too and will be ditching that in favor of the lbz turbo inlet. Lbz turbo inlet is bigger and in my opinion, better in every way than the afe inlet.

Lucky for you guys i ordered parts to build the intake last week and everything showed up today. Got to work this afternoon and finished it all up so you guy can see start to finish in one shot.

The afe intake i had was dinky. Goes from 3.5" at the turbo inlet to 4" at the air filter. My new intake is 4" and the turbo inlet and immediately goes to 5". The filter is an airaid...not sure which model because it and the lbz turbo inlet were both given to me, but the filter has a 6" inlet. This new intake will flow much better than the old.

Old setup. Not to mention all the rubber boots are dry rotted and falling apart.

Sanded the turbo inlet down and painted it gloss black. The whole intake will be gloss black.
Got the new 4"-5" boot from silicone couplers.

Moving on...built the filter heat shield thing. This one mainly just fills in the empty hole that is there. There isnt a shield on the engine side of the box. This is how i wanted it.

Tacked together

All burned in

Fits like a glove!

All cleaned up and mounted.

Decided to give myself some more clearance so i trimmed it back 1 1/4" on this edge.

Got a piece of flat stock and threw it in my mill and made a maf mounting plate.

Now onto the intake tube construction. I missed a few pics here so im skipping right to it being all tacked up. The elbows i ordered were way long and had to be cut down a ton. Basically only used the part of the pipes that actually had the bends in them. But it worked out perfect! As you can see, the tube transitions from 5" to 6" at the air filter.

Heres kind where i forgot to take some pics. The whole tube is burned in all the way and cleaned up. Maf plate is on, works and looks great too.

There is a mounting tab welded to the backside of the tube that you cant see. Keeps it sturdy but allows for some movement so it can flex with the engine.

And here is the finished product minus paint. I like it alot! Im actually like way stoked about it! I had to have my maf sensor rescaled big time because of the larger diameter pipe.

Got it back from paint tonight also.

Inside of the pipe. I cleaned it up with my die grinder and a 40 grit flap wheel.

And also, here is the mounting tab.

mike diesel · Nov 29, 2013

slc dzl said:
Yeah I have seen yours to. if your pictures indicate where you live, I'm on the other side of bangeter.
Great looking truck btw.

Thanks! Yours looks good and seems to run pretty good too from what i have seen at the track.

RedRice589 · Nov 29, 2013

Welcome nice truck!!

slc dzl · Nov 30, 2013

mike diesel said:
Thanks! Yours looks good and seems to run pretty good too from what i have seen at the track.

Thanks man, whose traction bars are you running.

mike diesel · Nov 30, 2013

I built the traction bars myself.

Powerstroked162 · Nov 30, 2013

Truck looks very familiar. Weekend on the edge maybe? Might be the rims. I think Jacob had a set on his WOP built regular cab a couple years back

Either way, welcome!