Was towing this weekend with our new/used 5er on ppe #2 (through the mountains), egt's were starting to get around 1350 , so I pulled over and dropped to tune #1 egt's now at 1200 or so, my question is on banks/ppe intercoolers , who has one and what is the real world egt drop in replacing one of these?

TOW WEIGHT ABOUT 13,200
thanks

Just looking at the two the ppe\spearco looks better,IMO

Check with Mike L. He has one that they say is top notch.

My bad ! You said intercooler.....I was thinking Trans cooler. Sorry !

I got a good deal on the Banks and I liked it. I tow half your weight but it did the trick.

the new BD unit looks to be the best in my opinion , it has biggest area has a whole diff design of the core ( high flow ) , garenteed to hold 80+ psi . i have 2 friends running them on 700-800 hp duramaxes , it is the one i will go with eventually . its the same cost as the spearco .

the pic shows the difference of the new design vs others the top one is the BD and before some one asks no i dont not work for BD :p: just impressed by the product .

http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo80/trentnell/ExtrudedFinTube1.jpg

Nice! I hadn't seen that one yet.

Nice! I hadn't seen that one yet.

they dont make one for LBZ or LMM yet sopossed to be fall this year from what i heard , how do you like the banks , alot of people seem very happy with them ? i almost pulled the trigger a while ago on one but since i have gotten the twins EGT's arent even thought about any more , i could seriously pull the gage out , even towing , i will still get a intercooler one day , even if its just for effency .

In the LLY it helped with EGT and boost was much quicker. I'm pretty happy with the stock in the LMM. The LBZ and LMM tend to run a little lower EGT in my experience. I'm thinking of doing a DPF delete, bigger turbo, hopped up CP3 and new intercoller after my next deployment. That means tranny work too, so we'll see. My Harleys haven't gotten much attention lately.

I got a good deal on the Banks and I liked it. I tow half your weight but it did the trick.


What was your before and after egt's while towing?

I tow on 4 or 5 at #6500ish. I ran 70-80 from Oklahoma to Florida and Michigan a few times. I ran 1200-1300 depending on weather. I had my alarm at 1400 and saw it when I passed. I don't remember seeing 1200 unless I was passing after the I/C change.