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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 03:50:20 -0600 (MDT)
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fordtrucks80up-digest Saturday, October 18 1997 Volume 01 : Number 174



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In this issue:

Re: rear disk brakes [Carl Warren Levin ]
Re: Filtercharger vs Cold Air [Bill Funk ]
Re: Jeep 4.0's vs Ford 4.0's [Geoffrey Hoffman ]
Re: Spray-on bed liners [bLAckguArd ]

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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 19:28:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Carl Warren Levin
Subject: Re: rear disk brakes
>
Come'on, somebody must have installed the rear discs on a ford truck.
How'd it go? How expensive is it?

"Any culture that surrenders it's vision and it's self sustaining
values to the narrow judgement of commerce will be neither free
nor just" Ralph Nader
Carl Levin carl teleport.com Portland, Oregon

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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 21:17:57 -0700
From: Bill Funk
Subject: Re: Filtercharger vs Cold Air

> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 19:14:35 -0400
> From: Luke Wells
> Subject: Fitercharger vs Cold Air
>
> I was wondering if anybody knows what makes up a cold air induction vs
> a
>
> K&N filtercharger system(the one which replaces the factory air filter
>
> box). My friend has a Honda with cold air induction and I have no idea
>
> what differs from the filtercharger. (ie. hp level gain, which is
> higher?)
>

Cold air induction is nothing more than using outside air instead of air
from under the hood for the intake.Air from the engine compartment is
usually hotter than the outside air (sometimes, here in Phoenix, it
seems like that can't be true!). Hotter air is less dense than colder
air of the same altitude; fuel is metered into the airflow by mass,
which is affected by density (the denser the air, the more mass it has
per volume). This means that colder air will carry more fuel per volume
into the combustion chamber, allowing for more power.
As for using cold air induction with a K&N filter, there's no reason why
you can't. If you are going to build a cold air induction system, simply
incorporate a ....


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