There it sort of a T fitting on the cold intake and it connects to a big hollow black box with a little drain hole on the bottom. Its supposed to be able to drain some water from the intake if a little gets in there.

I won't be testing it anytime soon. For deep water crossings I take the intake hose out from behind the headlight and put it on top of the air cleaner pictured. Then I close the hood (you probably call it a bonnet down yonder) :alien: and sort of pinch the hose between the hood and the top of the cleaner to hold it in place till i'm across.

 

Ok so it's pretty much just a bunch of useless plastic. Kinda funny how they like to make things so complicated.

My actual airbox sits in that corner and it too has a little hole in the bottom with a metal cup that clips underneath. This metal cup has a very simple one-way rubber valve that is supposed to let any water in the airbox drain out. I filled it up with water to test it out, but during a water crossing you're more likely to get stuff coming in there! some silicon took care of that

:alien: Yep and we call the fender a "front quarter panel".

 

I know this is a stupid question, but...

Is the only thing you did was add a second air filter? (plus the longers bolts and pipe to go along with it) juwst any ordinary air filter, stack it on top? yea sound kind of...scary if you go in too deep of water or slash some up, but maybe i will have to try it.

 

Serith, yeah you just add an extra filter on and extend the carb stud, and a longer tube to the valve cover, however, I wouldn't butcher it like the pic has it done, you can read how i did mine, its much more reversible if you decide its not your thing.

I added a fram on top, I think with more air coming into the K&N it helps, but with more surface area to draw in the air with an extra filter it is even better.

Its only a $10 mod tops, so if you like it keep it, if you need to do water crossings, its easy to reverse at that time. If you don't like it, ditch it, but keep the filter in case you ever need one for whatever reason.


Haveblue, look at what mikedog said about his PVC "cold air induction," I think thats what you were thinking about too.


Also, if you guys are thinking about this purely for the sound, maybe I can get a sound clip of it installed on my truck, so you can hear it. Vote yay or nay on the idea.

 

Put my vote down as double-yay!
One for a 'before' sound clip, and one for an 'after' clip of you terrorising the neighbourhood.



:beach:

 

I give you guys credit for trying something different. I once tried to make a ram air scoop out of cardboard and duct tape across some of the front of the radiator.



I have my doubts about any real power or economy gains until I see irrefutable dyno charts or consistant fuel economy numbers. I'm sure it makes more noise which may be psyching you out to some extent.

 

Ok I just threw mine back on. I had taken it off for a while because I was paranoid about water and snow and everything.

There is definately a power increase. I was dogging in 4th gear, having to go into the secondaries to get the truck moving from 40-45mph quickly. Now I can remain in the primaries. I don't know if it improves power greatly, it just seems to pull a little better with less effort.

Any one else want a sound clip? My friend is in town, and I think has a digicam with a sound recorder on it. The only thing is I don't have a website, so someone would have to host the sound clip.

 

Yeah I could host the sound clip for you Plays_With...

 

I'd like to hear it.

 

I currently have just the air filter cover on mine, and nothing forward of that.
A battery does fit where that black box was (used for noise supression as well), but it is a little tight.
I've got an optima strapped in there now, just need to wire up the isolator, switch, etc. to have the dual battery thing actually working.
At one time I had a modified air cleaner housing so that there was no side walls.
I think it netted similar "performance increases".

Oh, and tenfourtyeight, I like the quote in your sig