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Old Jan 25, 2004 | 09:58 PM
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What are the pros and cons to putting a cold air intake on a 93 F-150 longbed pickup??
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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 08:24 AM
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Try the search function...under cold air intake .
 
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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 09:19 AM
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I have an open element K&N on my truck, it has now air box or anything its simmilar to a cold air kit but for a carb. but i would do it, the only thing i notice is when its like 20 below the truck dosent run as good as when its like 30 so thats where the stock cleanner is nice, but only because it used to drag warm air of the manifold, but in your case its prob, FI so i dont know if it actually warms the air when its cold, but i would do it, more power, better gas millage and it sounds cool!
 
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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 10:13 PM
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Talking cold air intake

I guess I will try it, what do I have to lose??
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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 10:24 PM
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Re: cold air intake

Originally posted by holla-if-ya-hear-me
I guess I will try it, what do I have to lose??
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About $125

The "cold air intake" system on my F350 was simply rerouting the flexible plastic intake hose from the air box to next to the radiator, through a different hole, so it hung out behind the headllights on the driver's side.

Cost me one wire tie.
 
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Old Jan 27, 2004 | 07:42 AM
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Cool cold air intake

Thanks for changing my mind, now I can do that and save money. Thanks alot. I really appreciate anyone who can save me money.
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Old Jan 27, 2004 | 05:41 PM
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Did you put an air filter on there somewhere? if not i wouldent reccomend it if you like your motor.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2004 | 08:24 PM
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cold air intake

so what your telling me is I should buy two cai filters and put one on each of my air filter hoses?
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Old Feb 1, 2004 | 10:09 PM
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yeah, unless you have polution controll stuff in the air box, i dont know if that has any breathers in there, if it dose youd have to plumb them in sumhow, but yes basicly take out your airbox and put in some filters.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2004 | 10:10 PM
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that would be rather hard. Um what if you ran an adapter to make the dual hoses into one. You know you can buy dual inlet filters right?
 
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Old Feb 1, 2004 | 11:08 PM
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does anyone have k&n's part number for the dual inlet filter that fits the 5.0? i have seen a post were someone did it and it looked mean, but now i cant find it to find part number. thanks to anyone that can help me out, thanks
 
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Old Feb 2, 2004 | 10:46 AM
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go to there website, you should find it there somewhere in the thousands of filters, but there sorted by type, so it cant be too bad.
 
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Old Feb 3, 2004 | 07:04 PM
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i did try that, the problem is that they dont have them listed like i need. they list direct replacments, and then they have the size ones, problem is i am not in the same state as my truck to go out and measure the sube size
 
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Old Feb 4, 2004 | 06:16 PM
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Oh i see, well that kinda puts a stop on that way of doing it then.
 
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Old Feb 4, 2004 | 06:31 PM
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Originally posted by ATC_250SX
Did you put an air filter on there somewhere? if not i wouldent reccomend it if you like your motor.

Who me?

I didn't change the hoses from the airbox to the throttle body, all I did was re-route the flexi-hose from the airbox to in front of the radiator area, so it gets colder air rather than hotter air from the engine compartment.

air box is sitll there!
 
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