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RhinoZ24
11-10-2012, 11:29 PM
This is the cold air intake I'm looking to buy and install on my 2005 4.6L. It's a Volant system. Any feedback? (second picture is the intake on an 04).

Jersey_Joe
11-10-2012, 11:31 PM
Not a bad kit. Hell now days there are almost all pretty much the same

RhinoZ24
11-10-2012, 11:34 PM
That's how it has started to seem, just wondering if anyone has one and likes it lol.

Jersey_Joe
11-10-2012, 11:36 PM
Well. I have the k&n kits on my trucks and the air raid on my 500. Not a prob with both. 500 needs more air though.

RhinoZ24
11-10-2012, 11:40 PM
With an engine like that, there isn't enough air in the world haha.

drybread
11-10-2012, 11:47 PM
I got Air For America cannabis. Style I drop the bong bomb on ya .

Hahahhahahahahah
Canada wins again

RhinoZ24
11-10-2012, 11:49 PM
So are you going to supercharge your 500 joe?

Jersey_Joe
11-11-2012, 09:25 AM
It is Superchargered.

I put a hellion kit on it as well. Twin turbo and Superchargered

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Jersey_Joe
11-11-2012, 09:26 AM
1904

RhinoZ24
11-11-2012, 11:44 AM
Lol I don't know why I asked that haha, aren't all 500's already supercharged? And damn, very nice brother, I wish I had something like that lol. I'm jealous.

Jersey_Joe
11-11-2012, 01:44 PM
Yes they come supercharged. But I wanted a Lil more. Lol. I'd like a 13 now. Lol

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Pushin 1,000 hp. Nothin can touch it. Drags or road course. I put alot of heart and soul in her. She's a monster.

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Nothing seems fast anymore once u take a ride it her. Absolute. Beast

RhinoZ24
11-11-2012, 02:09 PM
I would assume so, if you get a new wanna give her to me? :) haha jk man too bad we're on opposite sides of the country.

Jersey_Joe
11-11-2012, 08:36 PM
40 grand. U can have her. Lol. Shame u live so far away. Or id take u fer a ride homes fo sho

RhinoZ24
11-12-2012, 01:44 PM
Do you take iou's? Ahaha and yeah I wish cause she's bitchin' bro.

Jersey_Joe
11-12-2012, 01:53 PM
Thanks man. U see my buck on the win thread?

RhinoZ24
11-12-2012, 02:21 PM
Yeah, very nice, if I did that here some environmentalist would be all over my ass lol, so lucky.

Jersey_Joe
11-12-2012, 02:25 PM
R u serious?

RhinoZ24
11-12-2012, 09:47 PM
Yeah, you could hunt and it's fine but some people, cough* environmentalists cough*, hate it a lot, especially PEETA or whatever the animal group is called. The people here in CA are nuts, the amounts of regulations, laws, and taxes here are a joke. Like the exhaust I'm getting, no sales tax anywhere except, you guessed it, CA, there goes another $35 for wasteful state government spending. I love the state, just not the people lol.

Jersey_Joe
11-13-2012, 04:52 AM
Hahahahahahahahahaha.

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And your omission laws r retarted

RhinoZ24
11-13-2012, 12:37 PM
Yeah they are, for the intake I want, I had to go to the state's emission board thing's website to make sure it was legal and would ass a smog test. It's f***ing ridiculous here lol.

Jersey_Joe
11-13-2012, 12:48 PM
Yup. Stupid. I know. But u can smoke refer. Lol. Go figure. Lol

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Not that that is a bad thing. It just doesn't make sence. Damn Cali! And there frikin rules. Lol

RhinoZ24
11-13-2012, 01:43 PM
Well not legally yet...lol and yeah I can't wait till I'm done with school so I can gtfo of this state and move somewhere that has common sense haha.

Raptor05121
11-13-2012, 03:26 PM
Exactly. I'd like to visit Cali, but you couldn't give me a house and land to live there. Nope, not going to happen

RhinoZ24
11-13-2012, 03:35 PM
No you don't want to come here to live, ever. Nice scenery and all, great climate, but sh*tty people.

Jersey_Joe
11-13-2012, 08:08 PM
Well jersey is an armpit too. Lol. I'm heading to Kentucky when I retire.

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Now that is one Beutiful state

RhinoZ24
11-14-2012, 12:27 AM
I'm going anywhere but here, well anywhere that has common sense, preferably conservative, and won't tax and regulate the living s*** out of everything I do lol.

fearon
12-02-2012, 12:04 PM
I'm running a coolant on my v8 it's cool. There was alittle improvement. What sold me was the closed box. No hot air from the engine bay

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Stupid autocorrect. Volant that is.

Raptor05121
12-02-2012, 03:04 PM
I'm running a coolant on my v8 it's cool. There was alittle improvement. What sold me was the closed box. No hot air from the engine bay

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Stupid autocorrect. Volant that is.

You were already getting cold air, if anything you are sucking in warmer air than the stock airbox

Jersey_Joe
12-02-2012, 04:19 PM
Agreed. Open box tech has way more cold air than a closed one

RhinoZ24
12-02-2012, 06:13 PM
So should I go back to K&N then since they have the open box?

Jersey_Joe
12-02-2012, 06:20 PM
Well? I think it works better. It's all cold air. Ya know. More air. Better combustion

RhinoZ24
12-02-2012, 07:16 PM
Yeah, and alright, that's what I'll probably do, I just thought that since it was an enclosed air box it would keep out the hot air more. Anyways the K&N one was cheaper I think haha.

fearon
12-02-2012, 10:51 PM
How does the open box get more cold air?

RhinoZ24
12-02-2012, 11:28 PM
That's what I'm unsure about but I guess when you're driving since cold air is coming through the grille, but if your in the city and get stuck at red lights a bunch, what then? I don't know lol, Alex what your take on this? I'm sure you have a very good and correct reason lol.

Jersey_Joe
12-03-2012, 05:00 AM
Closed box is stock?!? Ya know.

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It get more air period

RhinoZ24
12-03-2012, 11:34 PM
I'm aware of it Joe haha, see it everytime I look under the hood (or up her skirt...my truck that is lol). I'm just wondering how it manages to keep the hot air out since it's an open box in the front, exposed to the engine compartment. I know it gets more air, just seems like most of it would be warm air, not cold. That's what I'm curious about.

Raptor05121
12-04-2012, 09:33 AM
The stock intake with the big round filter and tube going into your fender gets the coolest air- it sucks from between the fender and wheel well liner, so there is no heat from the engine. If you get an aftermarket unit (like the one pictured below) its sucking in under-hood air which is being heat-soaked by the engine and radiator. While at speed you are getting fresh, unheated air, its the stop and go traffic where your IATs will climb. Last time I did a test like that, I drove around tally on an 85*F day with my K&N and I had intake temps of about 130*F, versus my stock airbox which was giving me about 90*F intake air. But then again, you'd have to get into the whole quality versus quantity argument as per is 400cfm of 130*F air better than 300cfm of 90*F air? It can get down to the nitty gritty and all in all, you're not going to get but 1-2rwhp from an intake, if you're lucky- so there's no point it it.

http://www.knfilters.com/images/57-3031-1.jpg

I'm just clarifying the common misnomer that aftermarket "cold" air intakes are actually "cold" when they are actually "warm" air intakes. I bought mine when I was 16, I spend around $250 for it. If I had to do it all over again, I'd just bore the hole in the fender and make the constriction joints bigger for a drop-in filter and save the money.

RhinoZ24
12-04-2012, 12:03 PM
Thank you for the clarification Alex, and that's what I was thinking, that since the K&N one was open it would suck in the air around the engine, all warm. I do a lot of city driving so it would probably hurt my performance. The Volant one, however, hooked into the fenderwall where the original intake went, plus it had an inlet on the front for which you can buy a scoop to hook on the opening underneath the bumper where the tow hooks are, giving you more cold air. So I think I'll buy that kit then, or maybe modify the stock one, IDK yet lol.

Raptor05121
12-04-2012, 12:26 PM
Just keep in mind, overall this is only going to change maybe 1-2hp. Is it really worth it? I mean it is a naturally aspirated, 5,000# truck.

RhinoZ24
12-04-2012, 01:06 PM
Well, the intake is just too restricting, the hole in the fenderwall is 3 inches correct? The intake tube is like what 2, maybe 2 1/2 inches? My truck just needs to breath better, not looking for a big gain in HP or mpg, just a little better acceleration and performance, not much though.