Where to get a Cold Air Induction Kit?

[RTStork]

I've seen the one that Kurts Kustom has but its just a K&N that bolts directly to the MAF. It locates the filter in the engine bay which will draw in hot air. Has anyone used this or a similar setup? Thanks!

 

[bigtigexplorer]

Text found at http://web.lconn.com/explorer/intake.html

These are brand new custom made intakes for the SOHC 4.0L V6 Ford Explorers (1997-up) and Explorer Sport Tracs. It is a complete and easy bolt on kit. Can be installed in less than an hour with simple hand tools. It looks really nice and sounds pretty mean.

included in this kit:
chrome plated aluminum intake pipe
aluminum mass air flow meter adapter
K&N style cone air filter
all hoses and connections (red or blue)
mounting brackets and hose clamps
10-15 horsepower increased performance!!!

They are $200.00 plus $10.00 for shipping. When you order please include a shipping address, color of connectors (red or blue), and build date if you are purchasing for a Sport Trac (should say on your door jam). You can pay through www.paypal.com or send a check or money order to:

Ben Jenkins
2718 Honeysuckle Walk
Spring, TX 77388

I don't have this setup, but it looks sweet.

 

[RTStork]

I have the 5.0L. Do they make a kit for it?

 

[TarHeel085]

cant i just make one of those things for myself for a lot less than $200? what are they benefits of that besides it looks pretty? the pipe i mean.

 

[bigtigexplorer]

RTSork:
As far as I know this intake is only for the SOHC V6, but I think there is a K&N FIPK setup made for the V8.

TarHeel085:
Yeah you could make of yourself, but my the time you buy the pipe, filter, fitings, hoses and pay to get the pipe bent and chromed. Your cost will most likely be more than $200 and there a possibility it wont look as good. As for gains it says 10-15 HP, which is most likely do to the larger, less restrictive pipe and filter, plus it looks good.

 

[Sport (no trac)]

Cold air intakes

I have been hodling my breath for a cold air intake besides the KKM style kits that everyone seems to use now. Nothing against these kits, but I am not psyched about opening up my engine to heated engine bay air and the kit sold by Ben Jenkins (chrome pipe) has a metal pipe which I would guess would serve to heat the air charge reducing power and encouraging knock.

There are a couple of companies with alternatives. Check out www.volantperformance.com. They have been promising a cold air kit for a while. Unlike the KKM style it is a true cold air kit, sealing a cone filter in a box with access to outside air. The kit should retail for $250 or so, but if you can find a pic of it you will be impressed.

I also heard a rumor that K&N is working on a Gen II kit to be released later this fall and www.airaid.com is also working on a kit.

For the money though, the KKM kit is hard to beat.

 

[TarHeel085]

i think lizardtrac did it the best way. a route i think i might go, what he did was to get a new filter i think KKm then run a pipe from his fornt bumper to the filter. therefore bringin in cold air form the front. for my 99 it would be a very eas route to go. ill try an post some pics of what im gonna do and where it can go.

 

[TarHeel085]

http://edit.photos.yahoo.com/bc/tarheel085/lst?.dir=/Cold+Air
ok fellas here are the pics of where i plan to put my cold air tube. feel free to ask questions.

 

[dbarale]

Just a question to TarHeel,
Are you doing a lot of off-roading?
I'm just thinking, if you try to cross a river you're gonna end up with a nice cold WATER intake.
I would pick a location as high as possible.
And if you're following someone on a really dry trail it's gonna be a cold DUST intake.
Just my two cents...

 

[TarHeel085]

small heater filter is the answer for that prob, its like the ones that you can buy for your house.

 

[espnfreak]

a buddy of mine thinks that a fan inside the induction tube farther up will help make a difference. i dont know if this will work. any ideas?

 

[dbarale]

I thought about something like that too. But this will restrict the air flow so, by the times the fresh air gets to the filter it will probably be only a few degrees cooler. Is that worth the work?
The fan maybe a solution if you can find a high flow, water resistant one.
I 'm thinking of the blowers used on boats to suck the fuel fumes out of the engine rooms. They're usually 12V, water resistant and ignition protected. May be the way to go, it will also act as an additionnal filter, when it's off it will prevent water or dust to be blown trough the pipe/tube to the actual KKM or KN or whatever.
I don't know much about explorers but on Land and Range Rovers the best solution was the schnorkel. That pipe that runs along the windshield and sticks out above the roof. Plenty of fresh, water free, dust free air. But it looks kinda weird and it's more a solution for the hard core off roader.
I'm working on that fresh air intake too and I'm just trying to find a better way to go. Any ideas or experiences are welcome

 

[dbarale]

Even better!
If we connect the tube from the fan straight to the MAF housing we will have an electricaly supercharged Explorer... LOL.

 

[TarHeel085]

why is that i dont get it, to me that doesn't sound right. it only has to travel a good 2 feet. and traveling at 30 plus mph its a constant refreshing supply of cold air. the fan does sound ok but it would be a beast to run a switch and hang it inside the pipe.

 

[espnfreak]

me and my buddy are currently working on it now. we bought a ac motor so we had to return it, now we're looking for dc stuf

 

[dbarale]

On motorcycles like the Kawa 750 ZXR the air box is stuck in beetween the engine and the fuel tank so I assume that the air is pretty hot too. Anyway that baby has plenty of power at low speeds.
However they have a RAM air intake system, kinda like what we're talking about doing with the tube. The run is only 12 to 14" long and really straight but the system only works above 50 to 60 Mph. And it's not a matter of temp it just pressurizes the air insinde the air box.
Any angle in the tube will kill the air flow especially if it's the air cond., duct kinda tube. And anyway above 30 mph the temperature under the hood is really not as high as we think, probably only around 10 degrees higher. I dunno if the pipe thing is gonna make a noticeable difference here.

 

[TarHeel085]

thats the thing, the stock airbox is BS im talkin bout jackin the whole thing and puttin that KKM on or somethin else without the stock airbox.

 

[dbarale]

I know,
The point is just that, if you're talking performance, the air flow (the quantity of air that you're engine is gonna get) is more important than it's temperature. The point is to get more oxygen into the cylinders and the easiest way to do that is to get more air rather than colder air.
Do you really notice a difference in your X's perfomances between summertime amd wintertime?
I don't really and we're talking here of a 50+ degrees difference.

Hey, big guys! I need your help here to make my point. My english really s**ks and I cannot make myself clear

 

[Sport (no trac)]

Cold air vs Hot air

Like everyone else, I know just enough about the cold air/hot air debate to get me into an argument, but not to a solution. I am sure the discussion has been hashed out a million times without a decent conclusion.

With this history, I defer my judgement to the engineers. Look at any factory system and you will see that the engineers went to great lengths to make sure there is at least some cold air access to the intake. If the difference were none, they wouldn't bother with the extra effort. This is evidence enough for me to believe that a cold air intake is worth the effort.

Now how do we improve power while maintaining cold air access?

 

[taxx]

I know this isn't cold air vs. hot air, but with all this talk about the cone shaped filter, I thought I would get my question out. I want to put in a cone shaped filter (K&N), but I looked at the conversion kit and it is about $200 for the filter and a metal braket ?? Has anyone considered or tried to just measure the diameer of the factory tube and find a filter that fits? If so how did it work out? I am thinking of trying this.