bagging front on a b2600i

i was looking at my truck last night and noticed that there is a crap load of stuff bolted to my wheel wells which i need to cut out to clear my tires. so my question is for you guys with b2600s. how did you bag the front? what did you do with all the junk on the wheel wells? i still need to pass emissions so i can just throw out all the emission crap. pictures would be awesome and any help would be greatly appreciated.

no one has any words of wisdom for me?

So far we have moved all the intake crap, but that is it. You also said you needed to keep your emissions so I don't know if the way we did it will work for you. Some people think we are sucking in hot air, but I don't think it makes much difference.

I have to agree with the "some people". With the radiator fan blowing and the exhaust manifold running hot I would say your engine IS sucking some pretty hot air. A better option would be to route the air filter somewhere in-line with or in front of the radiator. An infared thermometer would be handy for finding out the actual temp drop between the current filter location and an alternate location.

As for the original thread comment.... your need to pass emissions and the fact that your truck is fuel injected means you definitely NEED to keep all the crap. But, it does not mean you need to keep it all on the inner fenders. I don't own a 2600i so I don't know what all you have but I seem to remember there is a fair amount of available space on the radiator support. Wires can be lengthened and so can the vacuum hoses. Take a few pictures of the existing... then disconnect the various components and see where else you can find to put them. Keeping it neat will be the real challenge though.

i didnt cut out my inner fenders, i have enough room. rubs when i drag but not much.

i measured it and the truck wont lay out if i dont cut my inner fenders. i was planning on doing a motor swap sometime in the future and i'm starting to think that now would be a great time to get started but i was hoping that i could get the truck to lay frame before that.

i just did like linn said moved stuff around then cut out the fenders

My point on the hot air was that everyone runs these chrome plated metal tubes from wherever they get their "cold" air from. To me the metal is going to absorb all the heat and dissipate into your intake air anyway, so in the long run it probably doesn't make much difference to the actual air temperature.

At idle, very true. Air speed thru the tube would be slow enough that the hot tube would transfer some heat to the air. On the interstate with the motor running 3,000 RPM (or at least thats what mine usually runs ) then the air speed thru the tube would be high enough that the tube "should" transfer very little heat to the passing air.

On a similar note, all of Weber guys who are running open element filters just above the carb are pretty much in the same boat as you. The only difference is ours is not directly above the exhaust, but is still subject to the same radiator blast of air. If I remembe correcty Mikey got an adapter for his weber and moved the cone filter in front of the radiator... wonder if he can tell the difference in seat of the pants power? Or is 1-2 HP just not that noticable on our trucks LOL

A general rule of thumb is 1% for every 10 degrees. the b2600i is rated ate 121 hp . I'm not going to worry about it to awful much.

Besides we are looking for a turbo rotary to swap in anyway.