Anderson Power pipe install.......

[302RollinHard]

I used to kinda laugh when I saw people list an anderson power pipe as a mod. I just installed one this afternoon, and it was no laughing matter. Enlarge a hole in the inner fender, take wheel well liner out, fish that monster in there and install the MAF unit and hope you have enough wire in your stock harness to reach the thing. I don't think I will be listing it as a mod, but I have insight as to why others would list it. Holy Cow, I didn't see that coming.
The car will live again in the morning for the first time in quite a few months.

 

[Daggar]

Did you install the 3" or the 4"?

 

[302RollinHard]

oh it was the 4". Dumb ol me couldn't do the 3" it would "choke" my combo. (I really don't think it would, but i am just trying to justify it all in my head.)

 

[Daggar]

oh it was the 4". Dumb ol me couldn't do the 3" it would "choke" my combo. (I really don't think it would, but i am just trying to justify it all in my head.)

Yep... been there and done that. Wish I'd gone with the 3 inch as well. lol

What I'm considering doing now is cutting a section out of it and installing an SCT Big Mouth right in the middle of it so that only the conical is out in the fenderwell.

 

[MustangOwner]

I used to kinda laugh when I saw people list an anderson power pipe as a mod. I just installed one this afternoon, and it was no laughing matter. Enlarge a hole in the inner fender, take wheel well liner out, fish that monster in there and install the MAF unit and hope you have enough wire in your stock harness to reach the thing. I don't think I will be listing it as a mod, but I have insight as to why others would list it. Holy Cow, I didn't see that coming.
The car will live again in the morning for the first time in quite a few months.

what do you mean... the install was a bitch or you actually felt the hp gains?

 

[ryan218]

what do you mean... the install was a bitch or you actually felt the hp gains?

that the install was a pita

 

[Daggar]

It's a bitch. Lots of grinding and you have to grind through the steel backplate too. THEN of course, the hole has to be elongated a bit becaues the pipe doesn't go straight through; it goes in at an angle... THEN you scratch the crap out of the beautiful jet coating during test fitting because the sharp edges find a way to cut through whaterver it is you used to cover the edges with.

All in all, it ranks right up there with swapping out a heater core.

Anderson would do well to create and provide a template for grinding out the hole. That would have been a godsend.

 

[ryan218]

It's a bitch. Lots of grinding and you have to grind through the steel backplate too. THEN of course, the hole has to be elongated a bit becaues the pipe doesn't go straight through; it goes in at an angle... THEN you scratch the crap out of the beautiful jet coating during test fitting because the sharp edges find a way to cut through whaterver it is you used to cover the edges with.

All in all, it ranks right up there with swapping out a heater core.

Anderson would do well to create and provide a template for grinding out the hole. That would have been a godsend.

someone should post a pic of the anderson's power pipe.

 

[MustangOwner]

someone should post a pic of the anderson's power pipe.

I agree

 

[Daggar]

Gimmer a couple minutes... I'll go out and shoot one.

 

[Daggar]

 

[ryan218]

you got a kenne bell on that thing??

 

[Ozz]

yes he does.

The centrifugal blower PowerPipe is no walk in the park either. The top of the volute gets in the way, so you can't easily (if at all depending on how you made the hole) remove the pipe while the blower is in place.

 

[Daggar]

you got a kenne bell on that thing??

Naw... I just carry that in my signature cuz I like em so much.

 

[Daggar]

GT40KBSCD327

GT40 = GT-40 lower
KBSC = Kenne Bell Blowzilla Super Charger
D327 = Dart Block 327

 

[ryan218]

id kill for a kenne bell to be sitting on top of my 5.0...

 

[302RollinHard]

Thanks Daggs I forgot to mention scratching the crap out of the thing........I bet I will see 4.1 HP with my extremely sensitive butt-o-meter.

 

[Cwalk]

looks like just a cold air intake that goes into the fenderwell. if thats the case why not just get a JLT intake? if it's just a cold air intake.

 

[302RollinHard]

well it is sort of like a cold air intake except it puts the MAF and everything out there versus just the filter.
SHE IS ALIVE. Fired right up after redoing heads, installing power pipe/PMS. All is well except she is puking oil I think it is coming from the original block dipstick hole. The backfire that took out the HG must have blown the rtv'd bolt out of it.
Will it ever end?

 

[Daggar]

Why would it be puking oil like that unless something else was wrong?

What I mean is: Dip stick hole capped or not capped, it shouldn't be spitting oil at all.