The other day I was going up I-70 in colorado and my egts were at 1300 for about 5 mins they would come down and go back up this was at 60 to 65 mph since then I have found doing that bit of road at 75 keeps them below 900. My question is will an intercooler help that much and is it a worth while investment. I dont want to do a meth kit so if anybody is running them how much did it bring down your temps?

IMHO i would look into a good air intake and a good TURBO back exhaust that eliminates the catalytic converter on that truck.

that is if you don't already have that. also do you have any performance programmers on it?

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What all is done to your truck? Like Benjamin said if you dont have an intake and exhaust then that would be your first step. I wouldnt waste money on a diff. intercooler unless your crankin out some serious hp. Let us know what you got done to the truck so that we will be able to help ya out.

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got both those its just a really long climb

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What tune are you running when this is happening. You need custom tunes! Was this done unloaded, or were you towing something?

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Unloaded on performance canned tune from sct. Its a very long climb almost 10 miles

Over this past summer I was towing a 16' dual axle enclosed trailer, empty, using my extreme street tune from Eric. Uphill in 90 degree heat, I could hold the throttle wide open as long as I had road, my EGT's spiked up towards 1450, but then started cooling off as the turbo cleaned it out. I could run under 1300 at full throttle towing a trailer uphill. My oil temp was the one that went out of control.

I'd suggest some custom tunes first and foremost, see if that helps. Your transmission will thank you as well.

10 miles is still a long hill for any performance diesel.

Obviously an intercooler will help some, but it doesn't seem like you should need it at this stage.

is anybody running an after market intercooler and how much does it help. Did it make a slower turbo pressure to the engine

There are quite a few guys running them on some of the Ford forums. I believe they say 100-200 degree drop over any given throttle setting, mostly depending on what other mods are done.

The Banks is a nice unit. Guys have had issues with the older Spearco's with the plastic end tanks blowing out.

An intake will not reduce EGT's. It will help dust that turbo so stay stock on the intake side. I agree that you need to look into custom tunes or an aftermarket IC.

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To late on the intake but if it does ruin my turbo i can justify a new ats one to my wife. Hope the injectors go bye bye too.

we just installed a snow stageIII on my brothers 05 f350 in scts extreme tune it wont hit 1300 degrees at 6400ft elv.

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An intake wont lower EGT's? Why not? Cooler/denser air = lower EGT's. Works in the same principle as an intercooler.

The wrong intake can and will dust the turbo.

The stock intake is a very good unit, but a PITA to change out.

I got some custom tunes from Tadd at elite. They switched my shift points in a Aggresive tow haul they said that should help we will see next time im up there.

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This is not 6000 feet we are talking 10,000 plus all day long I you got a truck and mountains its a shame not to put the two together.