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Wal
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9/29/2004
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OK, I want to start off by saying that this is SO stupid and silly and cheap, but it WORKS I also must warn you that I am telling this story from beginning to end and making you suffer through the stupid details of my dumbq brain.
I was changing my plugs today and I was eyeing the intake on my 99 318. For $hits and giggles I removed the snorkel from the airbox, and I peeled back the rubber matting on the pass. side of the radiator and rolled it down out of the way. I was looking in from the front, noticing how little of an offset there would be if I came right out with a pipe and just relocated a few small items, (front axle vent and some 'letrics). I was going to go to Home Cheapo and find some kind of tubing with a 3.5" ID to make an intake tube to feed the airbox with cold air. I farted around for several minutes and I just couldn't seem to go. I kept looking through the basement and garage for something to use in some stupid cheap-bastard way.
*Click* Idea time. I ran around to the side of the house where I had one of those guttar extensions. Y'know the accordian style plasic thingies that attaches to your guttar and leads the water away from the house. I had one I found in the road in a flood a few months ago. It is marked "cut here" at both ends if you want to use it as an extension and lose the rectangular ends. I did as instructed and cut it at both ends. It is just slightly larger ID then the airbox's nipple is OD. Clamped that end on! Then I ran it right up to the front next to the radiator and trimmed just a little to accomodate a line off the rad. DONE! I closed the hood and it is sucking right through the corner of the grille. It is the perfect piece if you follow the instructions and "cut here" and then trim a little. It has a gently and very very slight bend to make the offset and does not lose diameter in doing so.
I know this sounds so stupid but I have been running all day with it and the truck is different... in a good way! I can't believe how easy and cheap this stupid idea was. I have mine in brown, but a sexy green might be your flavor, hahaha. Or paint it. Best of all... you can expand the accordian when you go through floods and have a high intake... OK NEVERMIND this is getting too silly now, hahahaha.
Copy at will and enjoy :)
Wal
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prple-gaseatr
Dodge Dakota
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9/29/2004
23:33:49
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yeah wal, i did the same thing experementing one day, except i used 3" flex dryer hose. i got the standard homebrew on there now, one day soon ill quit farting around and get an fipk.
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TexasTodd
Dodge Dakota
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10/04/2004
16:24:16
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Wal,
That was a good post. I've posted similiar versions of my homebrew CAI, and
I've use one of those plastic flexible ruin gutter downspots, a green one also.
It was kinda cool when you mentiond looking around the garage, HOme cheapo, etc. for parts. That's exactly what I did. Even painted and cut a 3 1/2 in PVC pipe I found on a house buid site.
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Wal
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10/04/2004
16:30:22
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I'm glad I'm not the sicko, hehe. Sometimes you just get the itch and you have to mill about the house until you find it. My next project is to fab some lamp mounts for my motorcycle. Of course the bigger upcoming project is my belly pan leak :-(
Wal
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N56629
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10/05/2004
10:54:17
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"i got the standard homebrew on there now, one day soon ill quit farting around and get an fipk"
About the only differences you will notice is that it is prettier and your wallet is a couple of hundred dollars lighter.
Right now, all you need to do is buy the K&N drop in filter.
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Right
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10/06/2004
10:40:24
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I went K&N drop in and used the reflective mylar type of dryer vent in the same way. The benifit here is that it reflects heat, you can stick your hand in there when the engine compartment is totaly hot and the air inside is same as ambient!
Used some of that metal tape used to seal heating duct work (not duct tape, this stuff is not cheap) on the air box, too, to reflect heat from the near by exh. manifold.
It's all good.
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daffydak
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10/06/2004
11:26:04
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on the subject of homebrew CHEAP intakes
That's my 00 4.7L's intake system :-) I have a drop in k&n in the air box. I didn't want to run it up to the rubber flap, because I dont want leaves/bugs/water finding it's way in..... notice the PVC piping, in place of the factory accordian tube.... and the foil dryer ducting replacing the snorkel ;-P
Plus the TCM (Transmission Control Module) is right in the WAY! it would be a royal pain to work around it :-)
00 CC Sport Plus 4.7L 4X4 Auto, 3:55 LSD
Flowmaster orig. 40 series (2 chamber) muffler, adjusted tps to .76V, ported TB, home brew intake setup w/K&N filter, more mods to come!!!
Dan
MOPAR=More Power!!
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Vinny
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11/09/2004
01:28:43
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I have an 03 Dak CC 4.7 5-45 auto 4x4 3.92 gears that I installed an FIPK on. Loud! No change in milage or 0-60 time. (10.5 sec)(6700 ft. altitude). I,m not sure the 160 amp factory stereo could drown the sound out. Ha. I might have to try Daffydak's install. (nice pics!) Speend your money wisely guys.
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Lurkin
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11/09/2004
09:38:50
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I had a Volant tube and cone on my 04 4.7 for about a year. I decided that I didn't like the additional intake noise over any small performance gains that might have been there. I removed the Volant and put the stock setup back on.
IMHO, the tubes are probably good for the 5-7 HP as per K&N, but it's not worth the intake noise to me as I am not a fan of intake noise.
Note that I did hack up the Volant (I had gotten quite a good eBay deal so hacking it didn't bother me much) to make a tube that ran from the stock air filter box to the air hat. I still have the stock air horn, but may change it to the dryer vent thing here shortly.
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fastyz400
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11/10/2004
19:17:35
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my home brew intake
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do you?
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11/11/2004
08:56:50
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I hope you drive around with the hood open, otherwise, you're getting alot of heated air into the monster, not a good thing, IF you want to make any more power!
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