Anyone have the intake from ifab?

[unpredictable1]

I was wondering if anyone had this intake setup on their X, I'm thinking about getting it.

Cheers,

lbrowne

 

[section525]

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125462

There's more threads about this if you search. I hear they were kicked off eBay. If that is true I wouldn't do business with them. Kick down some more change and get something from a decent company. Good luck.

 

[Creager]

for $135 bucks... its just a little bling under the hood, nothing more.

I bought it on impulse, and my stock one was falling apart. otherwise i dont have any complains, i mean its actually pretty durable, i trust it over the stock plastic one.

Only complains its fitment, you gotta play with it to get it to work right, but once you get it broken in to how you like it, no problems.

Every now and again the Ring-clamps that hold it down will come loose. But thats the case with anything. I just check em everytime i got the hood open.

for the price, it would be better to just get an intake for a 95-97 (from MAC or K&N, bigger, more established companies) and relocate your battery where your air box is. I plan on doing this eventually.

iFab is bascially ran out of this guy's basement. Kind of a shady company to work with.

 

[unpredictable1]

is ti really worth replacing the intake tube, the black plastic peice that travels along the front of the engine bay?

 

[Rhett]

is ti really worth replacing the intake tube, the black plastic peice that travels along the front of the engine bay?

Good question. I have been here for 5 years and that question has been asked many times and never scientifically answered.

The stock tube is ribbed, for what reason? I believe people here determined that the ribbing was for strength purposes only--not to "rough up" the air or anything like that.

I once calculated the sq. in area of the stock intake tube interior, which is flattened, vs. the interior sq. in area of a 3" PVC (being round). The areas were almost the same. But how would the shape of the tube affect the flow rate??

 

[Rhett]

for $135 bucks... its just a little bling under the hood, nothing more.

I bought it on impulse, and my stock one was falling apart. otherwise i dont have any complains, i mean its actually pretty durable, i trust it over the stock plastic one.

My stock tube is now also falling apart. I guess I have taken it off and put it back on too many times...the TB end is getting boogered up...

for the price, it would be better to just get an intake for a 95-97 (from MAC or K&N, bigger, more established companies) and relocate your battery where your air box is. I plan on doing this eventually.

I've been planning on doing that for 3 years and have never gotten around to it. Pretty soon I'll be forced to...once the tube starts really fallin apart I'll get vac leaks in there. I'm still trying to figure out how to hold down the battery if I put it where the stocker air box is...an H clamp probably won't have much to grab onto there...

 

[Creager]

But how would the shape of the tube affect the flow rate??

I cant explain why it effects the flow rate, but i could draw a picture hahah. Bascially, the smoother the tube the air flows through, the less movment and crap... Bascially is the same idea behind porting/polishing your heads, the smoother the surface the air flows in the more power. I believe when the air hits all those ridges it becomes unstable, therefore it doesnt mix/combine with the gas as effecently. Its probably not a problem with the tube itself, since the air has to go through the throttlebody-upperintake-lowerintake-heads-then the chamber before its actually combusted.

My stock tube is now also falling apart. I guess I have taken it off and put it back on too many times...the TB end is getting boogered up...

At the last elbow there, where the tube meets the TB, mine was cracking all over the place where those ribs/bellows/acordian things are.

I've been planning on doing that for 3 years and have never gotten around to it. Pretty soon I'll be forced to...once the tube starts really fallin apart I'll get vac leaks in there. I'm still trying to figure out how to hold down the battery if I put it where the stocker air box is...an H clamp probably won't have much to grab onto there...

I've seen it done here, some guys have just swapped the battery and the air box, others swap the battery to where the washerfluid/coolent resivior is. I think you will end up having to fab up a new battery mount for it. Pretty sure of that. Welding required.

 

[unpredictable1]

for the price, it would be better to just get an intake for a 95-97 (from MAC or K&N, bigger, more established companies) and relocate your battery where your air box is. I plan on doing this eventually.
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How hard to relocate if I went with the newer intake? Aside from that part of the task is the intake itself a straight bolt on?

 

[Creager]

for the price, it would be better to just get an intake for a 95-97 (from MAC or K&N, bigger, more established companies) and relocate your battery where your air box is. I plan on doing this eventually.
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How hard to relocate if I went with the newer intake? Aside from that part of the task is the intake itself a straight bolt on?

intake itself is a straight bolt on. only problem is the Fliter sits directly where the battery is. Relocating it shouldnt be too difficult a task, if you have a welder that is. You could just go buy one of the fancy battery mounts (that have flames on em and stuff) and weld it to the inner fender, problem solved. But for people like me who dont have one, well it might take a lil extra booty fab hehe.

Do a search, ive seen it done a couple times. I just dont remember names. from what i understand it was actually somewhat easy.

Badabing badaboom

check out this thread... Crankcase has a great idea, probably gonna steal it

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63659&highlight=relocate+battery

 

[briwayjones]

I've always heard that the stock tube delivers enough air and is not restrictive. I got a KKM which is just the filter and mounting plate that installs on the end of the stock air tube.

 

[slravene]

well as long as you have the stock TB and everything....you can have the biggest damn air tube known to man but it wouldnt do a single thing. The stock air tube can already push more air than the TB can eat up. It a mute point, the shiny air tubes are for looks and thats about it.

 

[Rhett]

check out this thread... Crankcase has a great idea, probably gonna steal it

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63659&highlight=relocate+battery

That is THE thread on the matter...If you notice creag I have the 2nd post in that thread, and that's from 2002, so you can tell I have been thinking about this relo job for a while...