Grid heater delete or not?
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My grid heaters are switchable on-off. Use them when I need them, not often. Just put a switch in the control line for the grid heater relays, easy to do.
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If you live in Southern Utah, I wouldn't consider any minor increase in airflow to be an acceptable tradeoff for loss of the grid heater function. I live on the Texas Gulf Coast and my truck still has the grid heater.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you will not see any difference what-so-ever. It is not going to spool your turbo any faster than it does now, at least you won't be able to tell, and as far as EGT's, I'll bet it doesn't make 10 deg difference.
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It's worth a try. I learned along time ago that stock isn't always better, but sometimes it is. In this case I'm going to find out, after I dyno both ideas I'll post and let you know the results.
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a buddy of mine had a 2nd gen with a comp and 155bd injectors and custom airfilter and he removed the grid heater and dynoed over 1000ft lbs,cant remember the hp,he swore by removing the heaters to get maximum airflow,i may try it in the summer months,like was said before, cant hurt
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This experiment has been done before.
I'll bet $20 you will see 0.0 increase in HP on the dyno from removing the grid heaters.
You are not pushing enough air that it will make a difference.
I'll bet $20 you will see 0.0 increase in HP on the dyno from removing the grid heaters.
You are not pushing enough air that it will make a difference.
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