Jon,
You lucky DOG!!! I've had one on order for... gee, I can't count that far
back! Guess it's time for a phone call to the dealer. Goodluck bolting
that puppy up. If you change your mind about using the intake, drop me a
line. he-he-he I know, fat chance!
Later,
Rich - Ashburn, VA
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger [mailto:stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 11:33 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
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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