I want my truck to run a little better, and I think I have seen a few people just take the stock box off, and run the filter with no box around it. Is that okay to do?

If I do that, will I have to make some sort of support for the filter, or just leave it alone?

Thnaks

 

as long as you dont go mudding, you will be fine, it does pretty much nothing though, id buy a napa 2790 for it, just get it and you will understand

 

is the napa 2790 the bhaf? can i run the bhaf without making the "ol smokey" mount for it?

 

I was running the BHAF for awhile just loose without the mount and it would come off the giant airhose, it was a little annoying.

 

The stock-type filters, including the "BHAF", are made with paper pleats and should be protected from water.

 

Not to mention the stock air box does offer some sort of cold air duct, however small...

 

Very small.

nothing beats an old BHAF with the mount so it takes in cold fender air and not hot engine heat.

 

and the best yet might be what BC*** (I think...) came up with, i.e. the stock pot bahf: bigger air element and improved cold air. Check his setup by searching stock pot in this forum...

 

I have the Asa pipe and a outwear filter so far very good

 

The worst part about losing the stock airbox is that annoying Turbo whine! (just kidding, thats the BEST part!) I used a 2.5" hole saw and Swiss Cheesed my stock airbox, then used an ASA intake tube and a 4-5" rubber adapter for plastic drain pipe to hook it to the airbox. I also use a K&N filter, for which there is much debate. I like mine though. Not much "mudding" with my rig. Just lots of Desert dust.

 

rather than take my air box out I still use it I just cut the whole top section off (not the ends though, they help shield the filter from hot air under the hood) and it seems to have made a big difference in sound and even seems to breathe better.

 

The guy that owned my cousin's 1st Gen. Ford/Cummins, about two weeks before my cousin bought it, was showing me how smart he was and how much money he was saving by using those rubber plumbing joints, instead of the high-dollar stuff; about three weeks after my cousin bought the truck, the turbo sucked one of those rubber boots through it and caught the engine afire; some of the debris went into the cylinders and cost him an engine.

After that episode, I ditched my plumbing boot ideas and ordered the real stuff.

 

That turbo is sucking a huge amount of air through it when it is spooled up and if anything gets loose in it's inlet airstream it will FOD the compressor and then it will head for the larger vacuum pump we call you call the engine.

I am surprised that there is not a screen under the manifold like there is on top of the scavenger blower on all Detroit’s

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Not to mention the stock air box does offer some sort of cold air duct, however small...

But with a few modifications it became the inlet for my Ram Air.


Has anyone ever thought to install a TAG to the inlet of their turbo?

http://www.dieselpowerproducts.net/tag

Or a simple Velocity Stack?

http://www.turbohoses.com/Turbohosesairramintake.jpg


Jim

 

I think we should all cut holes in our hood and just run the filter right out the top of the hood.

RAM AIR BABY!

 

Yikes! it has been on there a long time, 50,000 miles long, That is the only one, everything else is highest quality reinforced silicone. but looks like I will be calling the speed shop tomorrow! Thanks!