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ok looks like tapping the inlet manifold/charge pipes is the only route..

so u got it working?

pics?

so can u install a boost controller on a frontier? doh kno

OK so I went ahead and installed the boost gauge.

I got a VDO Guage that reads boost only. Wiring was pretty simple, I tapped the wires for the dash lights dimmer switch. I ran a 1/8 nylon hard vacuum line to the engine bay through a rubber plug on teh firewall that I drilled for the nylon line to pass through.



The biggest part of the install was removing the hard pipe from the intercooler to the inlet tube/intake manifold. I took a few photos, but as my hands were dirty i didn't want to get my phone too dirty LOL.



SO - I removed the hard pipe, drilled a hole, used a tread tapping tool to tap in a brass NPT fitting with a 1/4 vacuum hose filling.



then attached a hard nylon to vacuum hose fitting and joined the two. viola.

i have a short video i did, i'll post once it finishes uploading..

what i have noticed is that my 08 Auto TDCi Ranger (Twin cam 2.5 Turbo/Intercooled Common rail Diesel) runs about 15psi average topping out about 18psi or so when shifting and then it drops off. Boost is ~10psi from about 2000rpm or just about any touch of the throttle. My only mods so far is a K&N filter.. I realized that my Auto TDCi Ranger uses the big round intake like the 3.0's and from riding and checking out the manual TDi's the auto is faster and has a completely different engine.

Next... installing a Chip and hopefully and before and after Dyno (and upgraded intercooler and hard pipes.. more on that later)

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nice install..

...intresting...

well done

sweet!

soon . . .

soon . . .

you'll have company

thanks guys



took her up to the beach, i wonder if this ranger has an tranny fluid cooler?? doubt as its a sealed box.. we'll find out soon.. anyway, ran it red all the way there and back







(photos taken with meh eyefone)

the tranny cooler for my lux is inside the radiator as it uses the radiator water for cooling, but if i push it hard enough in the beach sand i would get the tranny overheat light coming on, so time for me to put an external tranny oil cooler in conjunction.

^^^ Alltrac, is that normal? Any chance its a defective cooler or somn that should be changed under warranty

yes normal, lots of guys get that same problem with the auto, the manual lux get away, because they dont need that cooler.

i only experience a couple hard shifts when it got hot..

nice install the firm know about this ?

not yet

is that a K&N or thats wa d van came with?

Bezman, How mch Boost u gettin in the Ranger????

Dion76, he installed the K&N.

thanks equipped2ripp,

nice nice i recognise i getting company.

Bezman wrote:... i wonder if this ranger has an tranny fluid cooler?? doubt as its a sealed box..

.....yuh van has a tranny oil cooler...all Auto rangers have one. look thru the bumper, it's right next to the intercooler......


...and dragster....re-read his install post.

That dash identical to the bt50

^ its not identical....its the same

do these rangers require a turbo timer?

Dion76 wrote:is that a K&N or thats wa d van came with?

It's a K&N.