BigBlue12V
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Casey (Headcase98002) and I got my header installed today. It is this one: http://stores.intuitwebsites.com/hstrial-MOTORSPORTSSU/-strse-27/diesel-cummins-header/Detail.bok
For those wondering. I got it from a local guy that had bought it new and never installed it. For the record he did say it took a couple months and a few phone calls to receive it after ordering it. He didn't outright dog Hogue but mentioned there was a little hassle. I don't know this guy really so take it for what it's worth. At any rate, it looks killer. I've had it a couple weeks and was going to wait and install it when I build a twin turbo setup, but finances are not where they need to be right now so I decided it would look better on the truck than in the floorboard. It is definitely a work of art and it would be awesome to mount on the wall just to look at! Lol I'm very pleased with it. The gaskets that come with it are nice I like them. They are the good thick lead coated ones. It came with all the gaskets including turbo flange gasket. It came with studs for the head. Unless previous owner lost them, it didn't come with turbo studs and the flange is threaded differently than factory 12 valve manifold. A trip to napa took care of that. I took it to my machinist and had him drill and tap both of the "pads" on it before installing, so that they were nice and square and done right instead of my bit or tap being broke off in the thick stainless. I had him do both sides in case I ever wanted to check the other side. I just plugged the unused one.
Due to my engine being a Freightliner model in a 96 Dodge, not everything was straight up all Dodge 12 or 24 valve setup. The heater hoses appear to have been "custom" for the application. Regardless they would have needed redone no matter if they were factory Dodge or not. We took the longer shaped steel pipe that was discarded after doing the twins on Casey's truck and modified it to run under the header and up between header and Jacobs exhaust brake actuator, and the other hose barb in the head we moved back. Some 90* hoses from Napa got everything plumbed back up the way it should be. The hoses are now hardly visible at all and what you can see looks clean. The Jacobs brake clears the header nicely. Everything fit up pretty good but the header would not slide onto the studs when studs were tight in head so I had to back them off about 1/4 turn each so they would wiggle ever so slightly. Now it fit tightly. Overall very happy with finished product! Seems to spool quicker and smoother. The thermocoupler goes in a lot different than factory manifold so its not fair to say it is cooler or not but for what it's worth the idle temp seems hotter but it is cooler under hard throttle. The probe goes all the way across one runner and the end is poking into the next runner. It barely clears the weld where the two runners are joined together. The ferrule is so tight on the probe that I did not try to slide the probe outward any at this time, plus I had to bend it to clear turbo.
For those wondering. I got it from a local guy that had bought it new and never installed it. For the record he did say it took a couple months and a few phone calls to receive it after ordering it. He didn't outright dog Hogue but mentioned there was a little hassle. I don't know this guy really so take it for what it's worth. At any rate, it looks killer. I've had it a couple weeks and was going to wait and install it when I build a twin turbo setup, but finances are not where they need to be right now so I decided it would look better on the truck than in the floorboard. It is definitely a work of art and it would be awesome to mount on the wall just to look at! Lol I'm very pleased with it. The gaskets that come with it are nice I like them. They are the good thick lead coated ones. It came with all the gaskets including turbo flange gasket. It came with studs for the head. Unless previous owner lost them, it didn't come with turbo studs and the flange is threaded differently than factory 12 valve manifold. A trip to napa took care of that. I took it to my machinist and had him drill and tap both of the "pads" on it before installing, so that they were nice and square and done right instead of my bit or tap being broke off in the thick stainless. I had him do both sides in case I ever wanted to check the other side. I just plugged the unused one.
Due to my engine being a Freightliner model in a 96 Dodge, not everything was straight up all Dodge 12 or 24 valve setup. The heater hoses appear to have been "custom" for the application. Regardless they would have needed redone no matter if they were factory Dodge or not. We took the longer shaped steel pipe that was discarded after doing the twins on Casey's truck and modified it to run under the header and up between header and Jacobs exhaust brake actuator, and the other hose barb in the head we moved back. Some 90* hoses from Napa got everything plumbed back up the way it should be. The hoses are now hardly visible at all and what you can see looks clean. The Jacobs brake clears the header nicely. Everything fit up pretty good but the header would not slide onto the studs when studs were tight in head so I had to back them off about 1/4 turn each so they would wiggle ever so slightly. Now it fit tightly. Overall very happy with finished product! Seems to spool quicker and smoother. The thermocoupler goes in a lot different than factory manifold so its not fair to say it is cooler or not but for what it's worth the idle temp seems hotter but it is cooler under hard throttle. The probe goes all the way across one runner and the end is poking into the next runner. It barely clears the weld where the two runners are joined together. The ferrule is so tight on the probe that I did not try to slide the probe outward any at this time, plus I had to bend it to clear turbo.
