Ok... so let me start off with this. I have alot of experience wrenching on various cars and trucks, I have done some custom fabrication jobs and lots and lots of bolt on mods.
This EGR Delete and Downpipe was top 3 hardest things I have ever had to do to a vehicle...
Starting with the downpipe from MBRP - The quality of the pipe is excellent the actual fitment of the pipe is excellent... now the bad... removing the stock one is the largest PITA ever!! I dont care what anyone else says or did, REMOVE THE HEAT SHIELD!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD REMOVE IT!!! It took me 30 min to have everything unbolted and ready to go to drop the downpipe out of the truck... 6 hours later after contimplating removing the cab from the truck I decided to audition for cirque de soliel and play contortionist to remove the heat shield from a stuck down pipe. I then used the winch on my 2015 Can-am XMR to remove that SOB from the truck! Once the heatshield was out of the way I literally gave the downpipe half a turn and it dropped to the floor!
EGR Delete from DRP - The EGR removal was actually not to bad at all, yeah there are some bolts that can be hard to get to and yes you will basically be on the cutting edge of a hernia the majority of the time due to planking across the engine and supporting your body with your chin on the turbo... but in all honesty it was not to bad... now the bad... The fitment of the passenger side up pipe was garbage... the kit suggests reusing the bolts and gaskets from the original uppipe... dont! Once I had the truck back together and took it for a test run I had the wonderful sound of a high pitched squeel at about 8PSI of boost... went back under the truck found a leak through the gasket at the manifold! awesome! give that bolt a slight tur.... SNAP ... SON OF A B**CH... sure enough snapped the bolt off in the manifold... nothing a 120$ right angle drill and some kobalt coated drill bits cant handle... 6 hours later she was drilled out and a new bolt was installed.
My uppipe is still leaking and I have 5 new bolts (one is no longer the stock size) and two new gaskets to replace the uppipe hardware when I get back home in a few weeks from work!
Thoughts so far, turbo sounds lounder, wouldnt say there are huge power gains but from the seat of your pants dyno it feels a bit quicker!
Thanks for listening to my rant!:thumb
This EGR Delete and Downpipe was top 3 hardest things I have ever had to do to a vehicle...
Starting with the downpipe from MBRP - The quality of the pipe is excellent the actual fitment of the pipe is excellent... now the bad... removing the stock one is the largest PITA ever!! I dont care what anyone else says or did, REMOVE THE HEAT SHIELD!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD REMOVE IT!!! It took me 30 min to have everything unbolted and ready to go to drop the downpipe out of the truck... 6 hours later after contimplating removing the cab from the truck I decided to audition for cirque de soliel and play contortionist to remove the heat shield from a stuck down pipe. I then used the winch on my 2015 Can-am XMR to remove that SOB from the truck! Once the heatshield was out of the way I literally gave the downpipe half a turn and it dropped to the floor!
EGR Delete from DRP - The EGR removal was actually not to bad at all, yeah there are some bolts that can be hard to get to and yes you will basically be on the cutting edge of a hernia the majority of the time due to planking across the engine and supporting your body with your chin on the turbo... but in all honesty it was not to bad... now the bad... The fitment of the passenger side up pipe was garbage... the kit suggests reusing the bolts and gaskets from the original uppipe... dont! Once I had the truck back together and took it for a test run I had the wonderful sound of a high pitched squeel at about 8PSI of boost... went back under the truck found a leak through the gasket at the manifold! awesome! give that bolt a slight tur.... SNAP ... SON OF A B**CH... sure enough snapped the bolt off in the manifold... nothing a 120$ right angle drill and some kobalt coated drill bits cant handle... 6 hours later she was drilled out and a new bolt was installed.
My uppipe is still leaking and I have 5 new bolts (one is no longer the stock size) and two new gaskets to replace the uppipe hardware when I get back home in a few weeks from work!
Thoughts so far, turbo sounds lounder, wouldnt say there are huge power gains but from the seat of your pants dyno it feels a bit quicker!
Thanks for listening to my rant!:thumb