Powerstroke Intercooler with Boost Tubz?

[rollcoal]

has anyone do a conversion using Tim's tubes? I keep reading about people using his tubes on Powerstroke conversions wondered if anyone else had anything to say on it, in a 1st gen only site.

[BILTIT]

I used his tubes with my PS IC, I had to subtract an inch on the drivers side and add an inch on the pass side. Not many people have had these issues though.

Unfortunately tims tubz are no longer available.

[jethro]

I found some 3 inch 6061 by 1/16 aluminum tube at the surplus store. I am going to try to make mine.
For the 90 degree bend from the intake I will try doing a polygon cut and weld approach instead of just a simple abrupt 90.
Not sure if the end need to be beaded where the hoses slip over.......

Tim

[swank]

I found some 3 inch 6061 by 1/16 aluminum tube at the surplus store. I am going to try to make mine.
For the 90 degree bend from the intake I will try doing a polygon cut and weld approach instead of just a simple abrupt 90.
Not sure if the end need to be beaded where the hoses slip over.......

Tim

I have a pie cut calculator excel sheet if you'd like? I recommend not going over 7* on your cuts (gets pretty angly if you do). The beaded end is going to be needed if you are anything over stock boost levels, and might even be needed AT stock boost levels. A weld bead works pretty good though, if you don't have access to a bead roller. Even just a few welded dots can work.

[jethro]

I havnt figured exactly how many cuts to use for 90*- but was thinking of using 4 segments and a little larger radius since I happen to have some room there to make a bigger bend. All the other bends are fairly shallow offsets. Maybe there is somebody in town that has a tube beader. I think I remember reading that some people have to use some RTV on the hoses
between the hose and barb to prevent it from working its way off under pressure.

tim

[swank]

Do you have excel? You can see what it'll look like before cutting anything if you do. If you don't, if you tell me the actual radius you want to make the thing I can punch the numbers in and post the results if you'd like. It will tell you what length to cut the pieces and what angle.

I would definitely recommend NOT using rtv. That will make just make a mess over time. Do you have a tig welder for this job? A couple little weld dots will probably work pretty good to hold stuff in place.