Hey Everyone,
Just wondering what could be done to my stock airbox to help with a bit more air? And if there is any way to help with getting colder air? Right now it is stock, except for the little piece that goes between the box and the fender is gone. Any help would be great, thanks

 

The black canister between the two elbows on the intake hose has a baffle inside, unclamp it from both elbows, there is a cap on the upper part that can be pried apart with a flathead, it will sound like its breaking, but its just the epoxy cracking, after the cap is off turn the canister over and hammer the baffle out from the opposite side you took the cap off of, sry no pics but you should be able to figure it out, be sure to epoxy the cap back on the canister, i used gorilla glue but whatever floats your boat, on my truck the exhaust sounds deeper and louder, better throttle response, and a lot more whistlin, good luck just write back for anymore questions or PM me.

 

I think that last post was referring to the baffles in the 3rd gen truck intake hose. The 1st and 2nd gen trucks don't have the baffles. As far as getting more air with the stock box, before I replaced mine, I "swiss-cheesed" the front (battery side) of it with several 2 inch holes. I drilled the holes out with a 2" carpenter's bit. It really helped with getting more air to the turbo. If you do a search for swiss cheese you should find more on this process.

 

I swiss cheesed my air box to, its good for now but I'm going to step up to a BHAF or an Icebox intake.

 

Yea I was trying to picture these so called baffles in anything to do with my intake, then I saw his sig

Yea I'm thinking about drilling some holes into the bottom of it/side of it. Do you fellas just drill into the box, or do you like drill into the fender as well to allow it to bring in cold air from outside(I've heard of people doing this, dunno if it's good or bad).

 

Make some sort of air dam right past the hole in the fender so all incoming air is forced in towards the box

 

I just drilled into the airbox, not into the fender.

 

Swiss cheese it and put in a drop-in filter. Seems to work okay for me. I have noticed a bit more in=cab noise with it this way. I'd like a workhorse eventually but can't justify the expense since I don't need it with my itty bitty hy35

 

So like have the piece that goes from box, into the fender...but then have a piece in the fender on an angle, directing the air into that tube?

 

Just the fender well. I did my initial testing with just a peice of cardboard and it worked great. I also tried a cowl hole piped into the stock box like the ol scotty II intake, but didn't see any improvement over the air dam.

 

Removing the baffle on a 3rd gen is counterproductive, The baffle is there to straighten out airflow to the turbo which greatly increases it's efficiency.
Did you really think Dodge would give anything that wasn't necessary?

Holesaw a hole in your firewall and another in bottom passenger side of the airbox. Connect them together with 3" RV dump or clothes dryer hose. No clamps or sealing needed, leave the stock fender opening open. Air will be forced into the filter from the vent intake when the truck is moving.
Poor man's Scotty that works almost as well.

 

After using an AFE stage 1(super loud),BHAF w/Tag 1,I settled on stock filter with Nanofilter. Quiet and plenty of air for my '99 which dyno'd@ 325rwhp,680 tq. EGT's were excellent.

 

Where does that hosing go? Is there anyway to have it come into the other side, and have it run down towards the front of the bumper? Just thinking of all sorts of different ideas

 

He took a hole saw to the cowl. I tried this after the air dam and saw no difference in egt or spool and now have a 4" hole in my cowl