Anyone make a cold air intake for one of our trucks? Would it be good for airflow? I want to make one but want some input first.

 

Check out what Dave did to his truck, nice work;

https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gal...&albumid=15730

 

Ive seen that but i was thinking something like a cold air intake like the K n N or the AEM ones for ricers

 

oh and daves is a turbo mines not

 

That intake he made was before his truck had turbo.
Sorry, don't know anything about those others.

 

The trick is cold ram air from in front of the radiator for best performance.
Yes you can use the others, but you lose the cold air and the ram air.
Might as well just run the filter you have now.

K&N filters are not exactly the best thing for diesels if you are in dusty places.
Once the oil on the filter is soaked up by the dust, the rest goes through the filter.
I used to run a K&N on my 6.9 and I am in a lot of construction site dust.
I attribute the K&N and me not servicing the filter every day with only getting 300 thousand miles out of my original 6.9.

When you look under the hood of your truck you see a 4" flex hose that runs to the filter housing?
I still use the same hose on my turbo filter box that I used on the NA filter housing.
I just replaced everything that is on the front end of that hose, the plastic flat snorkel that ran down behind the park light.

 

I built a scoop and baffle system that gives me double the ram air pressure at the plastic inlet scoop above the battery under the hood. My next step is going to be to make a bigger fiberglass scoop to replace the plastic, and get a chunk of aircraft 4" double walled sceet hose (smoother flow) to replace the plastic duct that came with the truck. I have pictures of whats done so far in my gallery, this sytem doesn't involve cutting any of the rad mount structure, and deflects rain before it soaks into your air filter. Mine is Naturally aspirated.