My $50 air shut-off

7"X6" and only 5/8" of actual intake tract needed it will fit almost any application. 4" and 5" tube flanges in either aluminum or steel or a combination of both.
 
Is my air shut off a status thing? Do I need to spend more on it to be part of the cool kid crowd? It works, its simple, and I am not lining someone elses pockets by buying their over priced shut off.

And if you wanna pimp your products here and try to sell them, become a site sponsor they would love to have you on board...unless you are too cheap to pay for advertising.
 
Is my air shut off a status thing? Do I need to spend more on it to be part of the cool kid crowd? It works, its simple, and I am not lining someone elses pockets by buying their over priced shut off.

And if you wanna pimp your products here and try to sell them, become a site sponsor they would love to have you on board...unless you are too cheap to pay for advertising.

PWNED!!!
 
For those that need to build an air shut off on a budget...

TJ,
That first line in your post opened the door for other air shut off options. Everyone has a budget to some degree and you addressed one sector of this forum and our sport with a product that many people use currently. Time and time again new ideas come up in these threads and people learn about alternatives for their own projects. You yourself, I am quite sure have learned a thing or two on here, now if no one ever posed any other options all of our trucks would have the exact same mods and cost the exact same to build, what fun is that? Its not about status or part of some cool kid crowd as you put it, its about having new options. Now feel free to tee up and take another whack at me if you wish, but think about your own experiences. Your reading a post and you jump right on board with some product and buy it only to find out what you are really looking for gets brought up a week later and you wished you would have known about it. This shouldn't look that out of place when you take that into consideration. Chris
 
One thing I am looking for is a shutoff that can be run with a filter on it, and not have the huge gaping hole where a gate doesn't seal or something. A butterfly lends itself to this.
 
I highly doubt a 5.9L engine can run at 4krpms breathing through a hole smaller than 1/8"...so I don't get the comment about the "huge gaping hole"

I'll pick up the coupler tonight, and put it on the the truck and test it. Also if I mount it directly to the turbo it can in fact be run with my AFE filter. I'll get pics of that too.
 
Chris has some nice pieces.

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Im pretty happy with the Simplicity and design of this butterfly valve that you and just weld into the 3" IC pipe


Brett
 

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TJ,
That first line in your post opened the door for other air shut off options. Everyone has a budget to some degree and you addressed one sector of this forum and our sport with a product that many people use currently. Time and time again new ideas come up in these threads and people learn about alternatives for their own projects. You yourself, I am quite sure have learned a thing or two on here, now if no one ever posed any other options all of our trucks would have the exact same mods and cost the exact same to build, what fun is that? Its not about status or part of some cool kid crowd as you put it, its about having new options. Now feel free to tee up and take another whack at me if you wish, but think about your own experiences. Your reading a post and you jump right on board with some product and buy it only to find out what you are really looking for gets brought up a week later and you wished you would have known about it. This shouldn't look that out of place when you take that into consideration. Chris

Its not about other options, there are plenty of other options in threads around here, but I am not dropping $750 on a guillotine that I need for 1-2 pulls a year when I can build something that does the same job just as good for a fraction of the cost.

My problem with your post was coming in here trying to sell your products, and snide remarks acting like your stuff is so superior.

When that time comes that you dare spend more for your air shut off than your oil change and you want a precision piece.......

So my piece isn't CNC machined out of billet aluminum...but guess what, it costs a hell of a lot less to build, it does the same job, and anyone on here who can operate basic hand and power tools can build it in their garage.

If you wanna sell your precision piece here, please do so, but in your own thread. I promise I won't come in there and try to steal away your customers by telling them they can build their own not so precise, POS, air shut off for less than an oil change. I'm just trying to help out the average joe who also can't afford the high dollar stuff for a few pulls a year that require it.
 
Not enough time to get it ready. I pretty much gotta have all my stuff ready by about 6-7 pm wednesday so I can load it up since we are leaving at 10. I'll be getting it together after TS tho and be able to use it the rest of the year

You could at least bring it to TS to chop up the lettuce for the burgers! :hehe: Looks good T.J. I like it. I think it is great how folks can design and build products in their garage that work as effective as a several hundred dollar piece that is machined and anodized and all the fancy stuff. That makes for competition and keeps prices down. It also forces manufacturers to look at their products and figure out ingenious ways to cut production costs and still have a quality product. No slam to you Chris, I like your device, looks nice. But I'm sure if you cut out the machined logo and bought those parts in larger quantites you could easily cut $100 off your product and more folks could afford them.

Keep your fingers out of it T.J.! :D
 
It can be put into virtually any intake plumbing that already exists. Cut the tube, remove 5/8" on length, weld on the flanges and then bolt them together with the gate in between. The gasket on both sides of the gate seals the tube ends to the gate and its now as sealed as the tube was before you cut it. If you have room to move your filter out the 5/8" or slide the tubing into the filter or the turbo inlet boot a little each way and you dont even need to remove any of the tube length just cut it. If your not running a filter you can run bare tube or just the gate its self or even a velocity stack on the inlet side.
 
You could at least bring it to TS to chop up the lettuce for the burgers! :hehe: Looks good T.J. I like it. I think it is great how folks can design and build products in their garage that work as effective as a several hundred dollar piece that is machined and anodized and all the fancy stuff. That makes for competition and keeps prices down. It also forces manufacturers to look at their products and figure out ingenious ways to cut production costs and still have a quality product. No slam to you Chris, I like your device, looks nice. But I'm sure if you cut out the machined logo and bought those parts in larger quantites you could easily cut $100 off your product and more folks could afford them.

Keep your fingers out of it T.J.! :D

Its almost as bad as those $250 staxx clamps...the guy says by the time he buys the material and makes them he doesnt make any profit off them.

I am having a buddy in a machine shop make my 7" clamp for nothing, he had the material laying around, and he just pops the piece in the CNC...no labor charges since its a friend of mine.

I never said anyone elses product was either, I was just posting the cheaper alternative that I built...yet he continues to try and sell his product in this thread.
 
I chose the butterfly design because it seals out all dirt behind the filter. I run my truck on the street, this is just a safety device if my 13mm pump wants to run away. I like to think of it as cheap insurance.
 
I highly doubt a 5.9L engine can run at 4krpms breathing through a hole smaller than 1/8"...so I don't get the comment about the "huge gaping hole"

I'll pick up the coupler tonight, and put it on the the truck and test it. Also if I mount it directly to the turbo it can in fact be run with my AFE filter. I'll get pics of that too.

The 1/8" inch hole wasn't was I was referring to. It is the sealing area around the slide that is the issue. If your not running with a filter what you have will work great. Just when you put a filter on it and run at a dust bowl, your gonna suck some stuff inside around the gate area. I am sure it cold be addressed also with some silicon and all. For $50 what you have is great. I really don't see a VPtruck haveing the need for a air shutoff, I guess the bypass solenoid could stick shut though and force all of the fuel into the engine.
 
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