Banks Cold Air Kit
 

Has anyone bought the Banks cold air kit for the 7.3 Diesel, I have a 03.

I saw it on Banks website and was wondering if it is as good as Banks claims.

Thought someone here might have it on there trucks. Thanks

I have it on my 08 6.4. Works great for mine. Good tight seal. Don't know about your application though.

Do you think it was worth the money?

Not unless you are planning to add a programmer.

Planning on doing a cold air kit and the Banks Monster Exhaust first.

Do I need to put a programmer on with these mods to make them worth it?

nope, no programmer is needed.

Great Thanks for the Help

Banks bigg hoss, with 6 gun, with bully dog power pup
 

I have the cold air kit, works fine.... and it has a reuseable filter

Recently, Testand Corporation conducted an ISO standards test on automotive air filters which can be viewed at this link: http://www.dieselbombers.com/chevrol...r-testing.html. All I can say is this explains in detail the reason for

(Arlen) SPICER wrote,

“Now that I am not doing the tests and my objectivity is not necessary, let me explain my motivation. The reason I started this crusade was that I was seeing people spend a lot of money on aftermarket filters based on the word of a salesperson or based on the misleading, incomplete or outright deceiving information printed on boxes and in sales literature. Gentlemen and Ladies, Marketing and the lure of profit is VERY POWERFUL!

Nice chevy test...so we are fords? where is the motorcraft one? And yes you will find that is pretty good as well.

A filter, is a filter no matter what engine it is on....the difference is and what the test is pointing out, is the false, misleading information the aftermarket puts out about their "after-market filters & performance gains".

Let's take something very, very simple, the 5.4 gas engine. The 5.4 V8 for example if close to stock can only suck in a maximum of 480 cfm (a little thing called physics) and a flat panel filter will flow 500 cfm, there is simply no way any CAI on a relatively stock engine can increase the air flow into the engine, sure their filters may flow up to 900 cfm...so what- the engine simply will not inhale any more than that without forced induction or cam/valve changes (substantial).