jcool
#78 A(ACLU) FNG
I know the LBZ intake goes right on the LLY's and considering the LB7 and LLY intakes are the same as it looks to me then would the LBZ intake work on the LB7?
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\Why would you want to switch the intakes from an LBZ to an LLY or LB7? Don't the LBZs have the expensive filers?
Hmm interesting. I wonder is a person could fab it so a LB7/LLY air box could fit the intake tube of an LBZ
I have a stock intake thats I need to off load....I'd even throw in a stock donaldson filter and an AFE dry flow filter with it...
I think putting on that intake on an LLY was the dealership's "quik fix" for the overheating problems but I don think it actually did anything.
Or the cooling system...Which from what I hear was subpar...Or the turbo, which I hear was a plausible theory.
This is interesting. Sorry for hijacking your thread Justin.
It is EXPENSIVE. It takes a lot of rework and new part numbers to make the LBZ intake system work on an LLY, but I suppose, if you have the time and money, it can be made to work in an LB7 also.
This has started soooo many heated arguments over the years...
I had an LLY. I had a good truck. It was tuned with basically the same mods I have now and I didnt pull anything heavier than 8000 lbs or so. I never overheated. I did hear my fan come on a couple times driving through the Adirondack mountains in upstate NY with a camper and 95 degree OAT temps.
I think over the years, the arguments turned from why they overheat to what are the fixes and who sells them. I dont think anyone really knows why they ran hot. Some would run hot just looking at a long grade. Some were worked and never got hot. Some say that they ALL overheat. Some say they dont. All I'm saying is that it never happened to me...Maybe I didnt work it hard enough or climb a steep enough grade or have a heavy or drag induced load to warrant running hot...Some say that the cooling system wasnt strong enough and that they did make changes. Some say it was the turbos with the new VVT style. If yours didnt run hot pulling a load, some would say that there are no "real" grades along the east coast. Some say that there are no "real" temps like the south west has, especially the Arizona guys. Some say the V2 was the fix and others say they're not all that. Some bought fan dams to install to suck up more air into the radiator stack to add air flow. GM thought that the LBZ air boxes would cure this. I dont know if it helped any people or not. I think its funny though that after 05, GM completely changed the design for the 06 LLY/LBZ engines and the problem seemed to be gone.
I also dont think GM engineers could find out why they were actually running so damn hot doing what they were designed to do. I think after so many _______ (Insert number there) customer complaints, they said **** it and lets get a new design going and going now.
Of course, I could be wrong. I was just a guy with his name highlighted in green that wasnt paid to police up the same old people who argued all the time about this very subject. It got old after a while and everyone saw it. Every month during the summer months, never failed, you'd see some oblivious guy logging in with 0 posts asking if anyone's ever heard of an overheating 04.5 or 05 DMax. The flame wars began, posts got deleted, people got banned and the thread gets shut down...Like clock work, it always happened, every day, every time. Finally people got sick of reading it...The same old shit day in and day out...And no one was actually answering the questions anymore. On occasion people would post a link to TX Chris's site to find a fix for this issue...Round and round we went, year after year...
Sorry for getting off topic...
Justin you are going to have to copy the pictures and post them on something like photobucket.