Nissan Titan XD Intercooler Pipe Kit 16+

Refining a Titan- Intercooler Pipe Kit R&D, Part 2: Prototype Fabrication

September 13, 2016

Nissan Titan XD Intercooler Pipe Kit 16+

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In our last post, we ended with a rendering of the Nissan Titan XD intercooler pipes and the jig that we plan to use to fabricate them. Since then, we began fabricating our prototypes and testing fitment.

Before we could begin welding our prototypes, we first had to fabricate our jig. With the help of the trusty waterjet, we sliced the pieces for the jig and began assembling them.

Titan XD Intercooler piping jig

With the jig assembled, Mike fired up the welder and got to work on our prototype. Although the measurements that we took with our CMM (coordinate measuring machine) in the last post should be accurate, we tack-welded the pipes first to check fitment on our Titan.

Titan XD stock and Mishimoto intercooler pipe

Titan XD hot-side intercooler pipe installed

Titan XD cold-side intercooler pipe installed

Refining a Titan - Intercooler Pipe Kit R&D, Part 1: Stock Evaluation

April 08, 2016

Nissan Titan XD Intercooler Pipe Kit 16+

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Over the last month we have been going all out on the Titan XD, and we are pleased to report our progress on the hot- and cold-side intercooler pipes. As with most development projects, we first examined the factory components in order to see how we might improve them. At first glance, the intercooler pipes appear to be your average factory aluminized steel pipes. Further inspection, however, revealed that these pipes were not in good condition. The hot-side pipe had a bit of oily film coating the inside and worse still, the cold-side pipe had a startling coating of rust. Yes, you read that right; the pipe that supplies cool air to this brand-new truck's turbo is coated with rust.

Titan XD engine bay

Stock Nissan Titan XD intercooler pipe

Needless to say we immediately went to work mapping out the shape of our pipes on the CMM (coordinate measuring machine) to move this project along ASAP. The diameter of the