Cold air intake
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Joined: Jan 2002
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From: Ventura, California
On my engine, the pcv hose goes from the intake to the pcv valve at the rear of the valve cover. The pcv should not get in your way at all. Your air filter box and mine were originally mounted in the same place, so there's no reason you couldn't do the same thing I did.
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From: Sheboygan, WI
dont use PVC AT ALL! my neighbor did, and there was a fire under the hood. what happened was, there wasn't enough cold air coming into the engine compartment, and pvc melts when it gets hot. so the pvc kinda melted onto the block and a belt. the belt moving rubbed and rubbed, and it finally started fire, and yea. the whole engine was basically trash after that. but hey, it gave him a reason to beg his parents for a motorcraft engine for 7k! lol
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i have a 1996 F250 with a 351W and found out that the air box for the 351 is the same one for the 460 that uses a plastic intake that goes right next to the radiator by the grill on the driver's side. in the summer i will put that one in to get that cold air to the engine better than the one right under the hood. and i did have a k & n filter in my truck but after doing some research of my own, i put the paper filter back. there's a reason those cotton filters flow more air, because they are letting more dirt in. and there's also a reason they put prefilters (foam) on the k & n's when they race in dusty conditions : to try to keep all that dust from getting to the cotton filter because it will let it in. k & n's have their place in racing because the engines get rebuilt after each race. but for street drivers, keeping out all the dirt and dust should be your first priority. not trying to increase air flow at the expense of filtration. and if you don't believe me, hold up a k & n filter outside to the sun and see it for yourself.
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I have no reason not to believe you, but I've checked the inside of my air tubes many times, and there's never even been a spec of dirt inside since I installed the FIPK.
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