Homemade Aircharger

[kboettcher]

WoooooHooo... ... . I made my own K&N Aircharger today. Man do I love the sound of that turbo. Went to the local auto parts dealer in town and ordered the same element from K&N that they use in their aircharger, cost me a whole $74. Made me a template with some cardboard, then traced it to some 16ga steel we had kickin around at work and proceeded to make me an aircharger. I also had to buy a piece of 4" steel exhaust, 4. 5 inches long..... ouch $4 lol folded her all up then pop-riveted it together, a little black spray paint and voila... . $250 aircharger for $80. I dont have a digital camera but I will take some pictures with my 35mm and get them transfered to cd then I will post them. Don't think the wife is going to like the noise on that side of the truck but shes only been in it 4 times since I bought it so I think I can just say "It's always made that noise" . Boy the powerstrokes at work aren't going to like the sound of this

 

[Whitmore]

You are on a good track with your thinking, I too have a homemade charge setup and just today I tried it out, we have had alot of fog and cold weather so it has been wired shut for several months, I made a run hard and got EGT's up to 1350 and then opened up the system and with another hard run I could only hit 1150 now keep in mind that the ambient temp was only 37* at the time and that is coolbut this gives me more promise to the system and I need to finish the project . I am in the process of building a scoop for the inlet now and I will have control from the cab as to how much I open the charg air up, I also have a gauge in the cab that reads from 30* to 150* and the ultimate desired temp is 90* at the airhorn and that is what I will try to maintain . I know that in the hotter months that it will run wide open all the time unless I have rain and I will then close the butterfly valve and suck underhood air.



Sidenote , at 37* ambient tem with no charge air the underhood preheated air was reading 52* at the airhorn, this tells me alot.





here is a look at my setup... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... cheers, Kevin



https://www.turbodieselregister.com/user_gallery/displayalbum.php?&albumid=474

 

[pwr2tow]

An even less expensive way is to use stove pipe, it comes in different gauge, pop some end caps on, cut a hole in the middle for a boot to go to the fender, spray paint any color, and wa-la.



Ron

 

[kboettcher]

Has anyone ever actually did a before and after dyno with the K&N aircharger or any aircharger for that matter?

The manufactures claim a 10-20 hp increase, is this true?

Since I put mine in it seems like it has much quicker response, but that could just be my imagination

 

[Whitmore]

spoolup is definatly quicker but I have never measured on a dyno



cheers, Kevin

 

[mgoncalves]

Kevin, the RMTDR chapter is having a dyno day on April 5th. It only cots $20. I am curious what your truck is putting down, more than mine I know that much .



Matt

 

[Whitmore]

Hey looks as if I got that one off so as it gets closer I may have to consider it, where is it at?



cheers, Kevin