Need Advice on E450 Engine Mod
I was reading up on a K&N website about a cold air intake system for my E450 v10 Class C motor home. They said "You could get 17.5 horsepower gain & 22 ft lbs of torque & a small increase of gas mill...
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No all I have at the moment is a cold air intake from k&n. next on the list is a computer tuner for non towing to get better miledge(would love to use it for towing but apparently the remapping of my engine the tow haul mode does is as good as it gets. All a tuner would allow in this situation on my truck is stiffer shifts and I could move them a little.). If I ever need an exhaust I will be upgrading to the largest pipe I can still emissions test on and a conservative muffler not so open its impossible to talk over ever but not so restrictive as it is now. And that's it.
Be very carefull with that v10 its a good engine but its oil hungry at work we got 10 added to our fleet of trucks when the diesel became unavailable in our platform we blew 3 of them up within several months in 12 hours they were burning several liters of oil. Bear in mind that is a towing engine ment to haul not idle. Ours idle almost constantly. I have another friend who had one in a 350 pu and he said he was adding a liter of oil every week or two and his idled very little.
Be very carefull with that v10 its a good engine but its oil hungry at work we got 10 added to our fleet of trucks when the diesel became unavailable in our platform we blew 3 of them up within several months in 12 hours they were burning several liters of oil. Bear in mind that is a towing engine ment to haul not idle. Ours idle almost constantly. I have another friend who had one in a 350 pu and he said he was adding a liter of oil every week or two and his idled very little.
