installed my vararam cai, 87mm ptb, 180 tstat

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Very nice install!


By my iPhone.
 
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Thanks I'm glad I'm finally able to start putting in some performance in the truck.. next is my headers and a hemifever 93 tune
 

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Man i wish I would've gone with the vararam instead. Maybe later on ill sell my s&b and get it.
 

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The look of these intakes under the hood are epic. How they should of came from factory.
 
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That's what I'm doing with parts I had from my other truck I'm selling them and flipping the cash to buy parts for this one. I'm selling my bullydog to a friend this weekend and buying my headers from moes then hopefully I sell my halo headlights and have enough spending cash to put in and buy my ds hemifever
 

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Looking good Matt.
 

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Hey really no need for the 180 therm even hemi fever will tell you that since he sets the e fan to come on at stock temp i think its 190 i got all those goodies and still got a stock therm lol i know its only like 20 bucks LOL
 
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That's what I want to do put the black cover back on the one over the grill n radiator like that and paint it hemi orange but I want to trim it more so it doesn't interfere with the airflow coming in the Vararam
 
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Hey really no need for the 180 therm even hemi fever will tell you that since he sets the e fan to come on at stock temp i think its 190 i got all those goodies and still got a stock therm lol i know its only like 20 bucks LOL

Lol wish I woulda known that but thanks for info and thanks for everything Matt I got more money coming your way soon for more parts lol
 

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Hey really no need for the 180 therm even hemi fever will tell you that since he sets the e fan to come on at stock temp i think its 190 i got all those goodies and still got a stock therm lol i know its only like 20 bucks LOL
This isn't exactly true. With a stock 203* thermostat, your fan would have to be running all the time in order to keep temps below 203*. That is a huge electrical strain and is also going to wear out your fan motor much faster. By having a 180* stat with the fan set to kick on at 190*, the fan never runs on the highway, yet temps stay in the 183-185* range. Then when you come to a stop, the fan will only kick on once temps get above 190*. This is better for performance and the life of your electric fan.
 

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This isn't exactly true. With a stock 203* thermostat, your fan would have to be running all the time in order to keep temps below 203*. That is a huge electrical strain and is also going to wear out your fan motor much faster. By having a 180* stat with the fan set to kick on at 190*, the fan never runs on the highway, yet temps stay in the 183-185* range. Then when you come to a stop, the fan will only kick on once temps get above 190*. This is better for performance and the life of your electric fan.

well thats what i was told from Shaun but ill be changing mine any way when my billet water neck gets here

or i have a different therm in mine cause my temps stay way below 190 and the fan hardley comes on who knows

and my fan is going on 3 years
 
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Glad i went with the Vararam. When i show my buddies (who have fords/toyo/chevy)
they drool all over my engine :D

Now i need to clean the engine bay
 

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