Home Depot'd my CAI and dropped my IAT 20 degrees!

[SUX2BU]

So i installed this $60 Ebay no name intake a few months ago. CAI (http://www.performancetrucks.net/forums/showthread.php?t=430604) And i always wanted to seal it off from the engine bay, just never got around to it. Well my buddy was tuning it and told me if i got my IAT's down he could add a little more timing (idling for 20 minutes or so in the Texas heat with the A/C on full blast my IAT's were at 135*). So he suggested i seal off the air box. I did one better and made a crappy little scoop that gets fresh air from under the front bumper. Well i tried the idle for 20 min with A/C blasting test (outside temp was about the same) and my IAT's came down to about 115*. Even better is once i start moving they drop down to outside temp in a few seconds. Before at a stop light they would climb from 90* to about 117* then very slowly drop back down when i started moving. Now they climb from 90* to about 95* and drop back down to 90* in about 4 seconds after i start moving. I know it looks goofy but i don't care, it works.
All i used was some waxed cardboard i had laying around, flashing tape (you use this stuff to seal around doors and windows in your house) and some thermal barrier stuff. Spent like $20 total.
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Oh i also repositioned the neck on my water pump because the radiator hose was on the bottom of my intake tube, which would heat it up. Also went ahead and took out my thermostat today and it's running quite a bit cooler, so my IAT's might have come down even more.
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[jmildoc]

interesting.... i just put one of the same sort of intakes on my truck the other day... have drove it a few times since and my gas guage hasnt moved but one notch so that says something... I have yet to fill her up though.....


where did you pick up your efans?

[SUX2BU]

interesting.... i just put one of the same sort of intakes on my truck the other day... have drove it a few times since and my gas guage hasnt moved but one notch so that says something... I have yet to fill her up though.....


where did you pick up your efans?

E-bay

[Sepiroth]

Hey sux2bu, do you happen to have any sound clips of what your truck sounds like?

[BOSS]

What are you reading your IAT with ?

BOSS

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Hey sux2bu, do you happen to have any sound clips of what your truck sounds like?

x2

BOSS

[SUX2BU]

What are you reading your IAT with ?

BOSS

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x2

BOSS
Tech 2
Yeah i'll post them in a bit.

[tybardy]

looks like total ASS!!!

But it sounds like it works great, i love home made ingenuity

[wmgood64]

good job!!!

[oak510_tahoe]

hmm, May have to do something like this as well. good work!

[tybardy]

what did you pack around the "cove" where the tube actually sits in? that part pisses me off with my CAI

[SUX2BU]

what did you pack around the "cove" where the tube actually sits in? that part pisses me off with my CAI

I had some 1" foam stuff laying around. What i made the lid out of.

[CodeB4U]

How much did you spend on materials? How much did you spend time wise?

[02TahoeMD]

Very creative. Love to see stuff thought of outside of the box. I had been thinking of insulating my Volant box to help lower the intake temps some....good job.

[SUX2BU]

How much did you spend on materials? How much did you spend time wise?

IONtake was about $60, and $20 at home depot. Probably 90 minutes.

[Volant1]

If you do that it will raise the AIT, it will store heat

Very creative. Love to see stuff thought of outside of the box. I had been thinking of insulating my Volant box to help lower the intake temps some....good job.

[tybardy]

what is AIT???

[Volant1]

Air Intake Temp

what is AIT???

[SUX2BU]

If you do that it will raise the AIT, it will store heat

Did you not read the title of the thread?

[Volant1]

I was talking about 02tahoeMD he said he was going to wrap his volant box, sorry for the mix up

Did you not read the title of the thread?

[Anthony]

Be careful to not hit any big puddles or your "custom" CAI will pull up water and kill your engine.

[Yuke2K]

Be careful to not hit any big puddles or your "custom" CAI will pull up water and kill your engine.

Not very likely, and here's why:

1. The location of the opening is in front of the tire, and appears to have a little bit of a guard built onto the front of it to keep water away.

2. This is an air "scoop", not an enclosed tube. There is probably very little actual suction down near that opening; it's designed more to catch air and redirect it up into the airbox while the truck is moving. Any water that did hit it would probably drain back down off of it before making it into the airbox.

3. Being that there probably isn't any suction, I don't think much water would stand a chance of getting pulled in; think about the path it would have to take. It would have to make it up the scoop, into the airbox, onto the filter and then through the element, into the primary tube, and into the intake manifold. Personally I don't think much water would make it past the filter, if it even made it into the airbox at all.

While there may be some risk, unless he tries to ford a river, I think he'll be ok. ;)

[Crazy Al]

While there may be some risk, unless he tries to ford a river, I think he'll be ok. ;)

That's why I'll never do a mod like this, I tend to put my trucks in the water....

Good work though, Home Depot mods rule.

[Cobra]

I had a mod something like yours on a thunderbird & never had any issues with rain or puddles. However I will tell you this if the street is flooded high enough to reach the opening. Don't drive thru it. MY bird was lowered & I tried to drive thru a small flooded street and it was over pretty dam quick. Filter was soaked & water was sucked in. I had to remove the plugs and etc.. No fun.

[Yuke2K]

Yeah, hydrolock sucks. If I ever did a mod like this, I'd probably try to fab up a bracket or something that would allow the scoop to be removeable. I don't off road my rig very much but just in case I did, it would be nice to be able to remove it ahead of time just in case I ran into some water and decided to explore.

[BlizzardX23]

Im gonna try this now! :D

[brndns_hoe]

see, now that's a TRUE cold air intake, the short ones are ram air intake....i've never seen one for the trucks that go down to the front of the wheel...only on import cars have I seen those, and I think they have a bypass valve or something in case of water.