Installed new MAC intake today
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From: Mclean VA
Installed new MAC intake today
I installed the MAC intake on my 03' today. Did absolutley nothing, but damn it looks good. We'll see about the mpg's but I'm not holding my breath. It does sound real good when you get on the throttle with the hood open, but with it closed there is no difference.
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Yuck...dude go get a power washer! 
If all that dirt can get into the engine compartment and everybody tells you that K&N's cannot filter out that stuff as well as paper, why would you do that?
If all that dirt can get into the engine compartment and everybody tells you that K&N's cannot filter out that stuff as well as paper, why would you do that?
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From: Springfield , Mo
Originally Posted by h20boy
And the string is for???????
Originally Posted by Monsta
Yuck...dude go get a power washer!
If all that dirt can get into the engine compartment and everybody tells you that K&N's cannot filter out that stuff as well as paper, why would you do that?
If all that dirt can get into the engine compartment and everybody tells you that K&N's cannot filter out that stuff as well as paper, why would you do that?
Last edited by 2000_Super_Duty; Mar 15, 2007 at 08:59 PM.
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From: Tax Happy Hanover Pa
Originally Posted by 2000_Super_Duty
thats cool I made my own intake . Put up some pics of your intake
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Dont clean the K&N. Leave all the dust around it for a few thousand miles, and before you know it, it'll do just as good as paper...
I don't know, but using stock Motorcraft paper filters, my MAF gets black. With an oiled-gauze filter for the past 10K miles? Nothing. You figure it out.
I don't know, but using stock Motorcraft paper filters, my MAF gets black. With an oiled-gauze filter for the past 10K miles? Nothing. You figure it out.
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From: Washington State
Originally Posted by 2000_Super_Duty
well I guess I did not do my home work about K&N filters not being as good as paper filters . I bought the truck about a month ago I know I need to clean the engine compartment out .
Well...you DO need to clean the engine compartment. And I would reconsider your intake "mod". Especially the string.
I don't have anything bad to say about K&N really. To each his own. Heck, I've got one! But at least protect the thing. Either get a shield around the whole shebang or put the stock housing back on.
Some guys have cut their stock housing back so that the filter is exposed like yours. However, they left the mounting studs so that you won't have to secure it with string.
Other's have just cut the tip off the housing and used the snorkel to direct air to it via the Zoodad mod. (What I did on my last Excursion)
Whatever the case, just make sure you can secure that thing. That string is so...so...yeah...ghetto.
And clean it! 
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I read that some folks recommend cleaning your V10, but I will offer this "CAUTION".
If you do clean it, pay special careful attention around the COP/Plug areas. Get water down one or more...and you might develop a miss...and start a rust condition for the spark plug.
IMHO...the COP/Plug design is not the best I have seen...so just be careful with it.
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If you do clean it, pay special careful attention around the COP/Plug areas. Get water down one or more...and you might develop a miss...and start a rust condition for the spark plug.
IMHO...the COP/Plug design is not the best I have seen...so just be careful with it.
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