What Cold Air Intake do y’all suggest I use to be placed in same area where the original air filter sits on the 92 80 series? Connected to the LS 5.3 , air raid, K&N, rough County?
!80 Series V8 5.3 LS swap, Colf Air intake recommendation (2 Viewers)
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Best bet would be to fab something up that meets your needs. There are companies out there that make the silicone elbows/aluminum bend that will fit your needs.
I did a snorkel with an external air filter on my Cummins 80 , no room in engine bay with turbo / intercooler / ac
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My “El Cheapo” cold air intake
tmxmotorsports
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Good idea
A lot re use the stock which is pretty much cold air, by cutting the outlet off, mounts 4" silicon boots. Try it, see if it meets your needs before you drop that much on an intake. Check out my thread or multiple others you can see keep factory. Factory is such a great large filter.
Been debating this myself. I'm currently running the stock air cleaner for the 1fz; BUT the stock intake ducting for the 5.3 IIRC never reduces under 4" diameter. The 1fz air cleaner reduces to 3.5 in several places.
Wandering through the junkyard I found an air cleaner from a 6.6 duramax that is made by Donaldson. Donaldson uses their powercore style filters to "solve" the engine dusting issues on the 200 series.
It has a built-in pre-cleaner that should reduce the amount of large particles that make it to the cellulose filter. Currently working on figuring out a way to duct it to the fender hole in the engine bay and either ditch the ducting in the fender or somehow modify it to be less restrictive.
A bunch of OEM stuff use Donaldson filters(f250 super duty, 6.6 express...) if anyone else wants to try out this experiment with me.
If anyone is really brave, there's a PSD air cleaner with the correct 4" outlet on ebay right now. It's freakin huge (think 20x16x7) and it would require some crazy ducting, but they put these things on vehicles that live their lives in heavy dust.
I managed to save the tractor filter and even the dust separator these trucks have stock, but with full 4" inlet and outlet. I did have to trim the ribs on the hood a bit but could have probably just hammered it down a bit in hindsight. The hood didn't turn into a limp noodle so that's good lol
This is what I'm doing right now.. cut off the part going into the intake and welding on a larger diameter one.
I don't know why I didn't think of hammering down the hood ribs a bit especially since my hood is far from mint already. Thank you for that.
Amazon unit called superfastracing 4” intake. Amazon 4”elbow, then cut the old airbox top and left enough to clamp the elbow.
He's mine. The shop that did the swap did mention the stock intake was a limiting factor for power at the top end however.
I'm running a snorkel so options are a little limited, but would love to swap this out one day for a torfab unit (or similar) to see what impact it really makes.
I'm running a snorkel so options are a little limited, but would love to swap this out one day for a torfab unit (or similar) to see what impact it really makes.
Breathing through the snorkel alone cost almost 40hp at the wheel compared to just the intake tube slurping. So I cut this hole to give it some more access to air while not snorkeling.
