Hey Jon,
How about posting some pics for us all. Is this the intake made for the FI
Magnums?
Mark Kuzia
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 11:35 PM
Subject: DML: MPI Intake is here!
|
| All,
|
| About a week ago, I placed an order for an MPI single plane intake with
|Koller Dodge. (P/N P5249816) The price worked out to be about $205 plus
|another ~$15 for shipping. It arrived on my doorstep today. There's no
|messin' around with the air like with the stock intake. This one just
|takes it from the intake and dumps it directly into the heads. A pretty
|simple design, really. I'm planning on placing a call to MP to see what is
|involved to get this thing installed. There are some instructions with it,
|but they leave much to be desired. I took a look in the Magnum Engines
|book; no help there. I'm about to read the intake section of my FSM, but
|here are some concerns and such that I have from looking at the intake:
|
| The thermostat housing seems to be different. It looks bigger, but I
|guess that could be my immagination. There is a threaded port coming out
|the front of the thermostat housing, two slightly smaller ones on each
|side, and a smaller one still on the passenger side of the intake. (I'm
|almost positive the small one is for the coolant temp sensor, and I'm
|guessing that one of the medium sized ones is for the heater hose, but I'm
|completely baffled on the other two.
|
| There is exactly one port into the main plenum of the intake, and that's
|at the back of the intake. I have no idea what its for, but my stock
|intake has no less than 3 ports. (manifold air temp, PCV valve hose, and a
|hose that goes to a "T", one of which runs to that "ball" on the firewall
|(which then T's again, and one end goes to the cruise control motor), the
|other end of which runs through the firewall into the cab somewhere.
|
| I'm not quite sure how the EGR works on this manifold, but then again,
|I'm not really all that sure what the EGR *is*. I have a 1996, which I've
|heard has an "internal EGR". ?
|
| Injector spacing: This is one area that appears to be OK. Hopefully the
|info that Frank got was wrong. I measured between the stock injectors and
|the bosses on the MPI, and they appear to be the same (somewhere in the
|1.35" neighborhood), and the same goes for the spacing between the 2 sets
|of injectors (somewhere slightly less than 7 3/4"). As you can tell, it
|wasn't the most accurate measurement in the world, but it looks OK to me.
|
| According to the directions, you have to make up a couple of ~2" spacers
|to mount the fuel rail. (The TB adaptor appears to have the mounts for the
|other 2)
|
| It does indeed come with a very nice adaptor for mounting the stock TB to
|the intake. (The P/N on the adaptor itself is P4532732). Although the MPI
|intake is P5249816, the bottom of this intake says P4532587 and P4532731,
|and it also has a date: "1.05.98". The top of the intake has the Mopar
|logo, and "M1" in a diamond, and the letters "BB" off to the side. (Also
|says "Firing order 1 8 4 3 6 5 7 2")
|
| This doesn't appear to be a simple bolt-on; looks like there will be some
|work involved, but hopefully less than adapting an M1...
|
| If anyone has any questions, I'll be happy to try to answer 'em, but I
|don't know much about the intake right now. I was hoping to pop this thing
|on before the wednesday night drags, but it looks like there's going to be
|some work involved. :-(
|
| If anyone has any ideas or tips and such, I'd be happy to hear 'em. :-)
| (Though I immagine if anyone knew anything about 'em we'd have heard from
|ya by now.) I will definitely be documenting the install on the upgrades
|page; I hate to be a pioneer with this type of thing, but mebbe I'll be
|able to make it less painful for anyone else who wants to upgrade.)
|
| -Jon-
|
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