Help guys, I can't find one anywhere. I had the wrong filter given to me and it is about 1" to high...the throttle response was awesome but my mileage went down on a long haul (I'm thinking air it was pulling was too hot). Looking at the stock snorkel, I just laugh! It goes straight to the back side of the hood...no air inlet there at all. I just picked up some more traveling work so, custom fabrication is a no go for time issues. Anything out there for the aftermarket?

This is my first Ford since my mid 90s purchase of the 88 t-bird. Do ford engineers smoke a lot of crack? I mean, most things are tight but the repair to the door handle cables had me thinking "what were these guys thinking" and after looking at the intake?????? Was it to choke the engine enough as to not surpass the mighty 460 gasser?

I'm starting to think that a hood scoop might be a good idea, then maybe paint it black and put a huge red stripe up the side...and a spoiler on the back with a large cache of machine guns under bench seat in the back (oh, the guns have to have the sites really messed up so that nobody can get shot) throw in some big gold chains, body paint and a theme song blairing out....wait there wasn't a hood scoop on that piece of gmc van....never mind my hopes of an 80's comeback have been dashed.

 

Not very many aftermarket bolt on kits were ever out there for the original diesels.
Diesel trucks were not really cool yet, so most of them were just work rigs.

As for the engineers, they just made everything fit.
They never had to fix anything, so that was not a concern to them.

Case in point as an example, to work on a new truck motor, you pull the cab off the frame.
Raising the hood, let's you add oil and coolant or swap batteries, not work on the engine.

 

Engineers DRINK!! I think the parts people buy there liquor for them! I like the machine gun idea!!!!!!