Last night i got my aFe stage 2 intake system and pulled out the oem snorkel and then put the new system on and it sounds great. It was not at all hard to install and it fits perfect and looks great i think. aFe also sent me a complimentary filter b/c i was one of the first 75 buyers of their 6.5 Turbo air intake system. I bought it for $310 ($328 with shipping) from discountdieselperformance.com -from colorado and i live in ohio so that is why the shipping was so expensive. Combined with my new 4" exhaust it not only sounds awesome but the seat of the pants difference in the power and response is amazing. I haven't measured the dimensions of the intake yet but i can tonight if anyone wants them. Any other questions about it just ask~

We don't just want dimensions, we want pics!!!

YEAH! PICS! :exactly:

pictures...ok, i'll do it tonight i think if i can but i'm not that great with computers...i'm better with my hands and well...other things:secret: ):h

I found this link with some pics. Just scroll down and choose the 6.5. Shows pics of standard and stage 2.


http://www.dieselpro.net/afe_cold_air_intake.php

PS: I don't think that this is any affiliation with you know who.;)

You mean this one?

And that costs $310? Where is the intercooler? :lol:

http://www.dieselpro.net/auto_images/images/AFE%20intake%20pictures/54-10732.jpg

I dont know guys.....still looks like it may draw too much hot air. I thought they are supposed to be blocked off from the engine compartment with rubber seals sortof? I dont know...I just know that with the underhood temps that are experienced here in AZ, I feel the factory...still is better. I have done IAT temp tests with my scanner (in the winter)and the difference is a jaw dropping. I have been waiting for the dead of summer to run my tests again while the ambient is 118F. we'll see.

Just my two pennys.......

I just came back from my trip to the the interior BC. Lots of mountains and was hot (27degree C) I got the air intake from SS diesel and I thought around town it worked great... I even built a heat shield around it just like the AFE one. I used a 3" pipe with a 45 degree bend and moved the air filter near the fender hole and made my enclosure around the hole.

Now the bad part. I did say on other post that I didn't notice any differences with the SSdiesel regard to IAT but after this last trip I had to rip it out. When you tow and it's hot out, forget it.. You are way better of with the factory box. I'm going to put my SS one on ebay now and hope to get some money back from it. I like Walt but sorry.. this is one bad design.

It is too bad that no one seems tomake a reasonably priced and decent aftermarket intake for the ol 6.5. Sounds like a good project for this summer :cool:

I just came back from my trip to the the interior BC. Lots of mountains and was hot (27degree C) I got the air intake from SS diesel and I thought around town it worked great... I even built a heat shield around it just like the AFE one. I used a 3" pipe with a 45 degree bend and moved the air filter near the fender hole and made my enclosure around the hole.

Now the bad part. I did say on other post that I didn't notice any differences with the SSdiesel regard to IAT but after this last trip I had to rip it out. When you tow and it's hot out, forget it.. You are way better of with the factory box. I'm going to put my SS one on ebay now and hope to get some money back from it. I like Walt but sorry.. this is one bad design.
What temps did you see? You should test it out on a few hills next time it's hot out for comparison.

I went thru the same thing dave did. Ended up going back to stock air box. The Key is COLD air. I dont care what anyone says, the underhood temps are to high for a open type intake.

What about routing the intake piping downward, between the engine and the frame?
Sitting on the same level with oil pan, air filter got to find some cool air to pick up.

Never had anything more than a modified stock box and Uni foam filter in my '96 throughout all of it's accomplishments.

The AFE II looks like a nice unit, and with a little help should do a good job of pulling cool air from the fender.

I would NOT recommend any gauze filter other than The AFE Proguard 7 as the std gauze units are terrible filters...


If you think cold intake helps, try a GOOD intercooler once...

That intake looks cool, but it's way too much $$$$. Especially when it doesn't isolate the filter from engine bay heat. Even if that intake was worth 10hp(which I wouldn't believe unless I saw it on a dyno graph) that would equate to over $30 per hp which is almost double the going rate for most aftermarket products. I'm not trying to rain on anybody's parade here, but these manufacturers are going to continue to gouge us as long as someone out there is willing to pay.

$30/Horsepower isn't too bad.

There will come a point where that price is a bargain.

I've paid over $100/Horsepower on a number of occasions...

Thankfully I can fabricate my own parts because with those kind of prices being paid I would never be able to keep raising the power level of my truck. The Turbo-Master is about $2 per hp. Heath's chip is about $10 per hp, and that's if it's only putting down 30hp more, which it feels like alot more. That AFE filter setup at $32 per hp and that's just giving it the benefit of the doubt that it's actually making 10hp(Again where's the dyno, and I'm talking from a real person, not the manufacturer). Maybe I'm wrong, but I will raise the BS flag when I see it, I want ALL 6.5 owners to have powerful, reliable, and efficient vehicles, not the elite rich. I could have swapped in a Duramax, if I had paid $50 for every HP I have over stock. I've spent about $1200 on performance goodies and I've stomp every stock super diesel that's tried to keep up with me.

$328.00? It's still just an air filter right? what eles does it do? I'm not to smart so I know I'm missing something on this one so don't be so hard on me, ok?

Ya might be amazed how easy it is to keep hot air from the engine heat away from your air filter. On my caprice with the LT1 I install my own force air filter system and during the test drive it ran great on the highway, but city driving was totally different. Taking off from a stop the car bucked and coughed till about 10 MPH then everything was good again. So back home I installed a "heat shield" made of nothing but plexaglass and a rubber seal on top. Now their are lots of Cold Air induction systems for the LT1 Impala SS's and they all look about like this one here we are disscussing for our 6.5's. I would like to see comparable numbers done with different setup's.
AND oh course picture's picture's and more picture's

Plexi, hey Bow?
I might have to try that on the '94 to keep the engine heat out at idle.