Can you really hear a difference?

 

If you are a Canuck or live in the moderate climates of the upper states, an open air element is just fine. If you live anywhere else (below there), you are going to hate it come summertime. Especially if you live somewhere with alot of traffic and/or traffic lights. If you have headers (shorties or longtubes), it will only add to the problem.

 

I just keep the stock airbox on with the paper filter(nanofiber) with those KN that you can see straight thru little pin holes ? tell me how dirt avoids that ? No thank you......

 

the reason why people say avoid the oiled filters is becuase the oil contaminates the maf sensor on some vehicles. 2nd gen rams don't have this senser so you don't have to worry about it. It mainly came to an issue with the duramax diesels becuase of were they put the maf senser (mass air flow senser) and thus everyone worried and panicked. so an oiled or non oiled cai will work great

 

Agreed. If you are running a kegger, stock heads, stock cam (even w/ 1.7's), and a stock ormoderately modified exhaust the stock intake should be fine with a good paper filter. It's all about where the bottleneck occurs. Big exhaust won't do you any good w/out good heads. Good heads won't do you any good w/out a good cam. Good heads and a good cam won't do you any good w/out a good intake manifold.If you have all of that you will run pig rich with the stock airbox and a paper filter. It is only then that you should worry about it.

 

I run an S&B cai and I really like it. It really improved my gas milage. Just don't drench the filter with the oil after cleaning.

 

Amen, brother![sm=exactly.gif]

 

Hello everyone, I use a Volant Cold ram air intake on my '98 1500 RAM , with a 360 ci .
It moves the filter from off the top of the engine to a box next the right finder,
the ram air scoop comes from between the right headlight and rad.,
all this does is deliever morecold air to the engine to make more horsepower.
The filter is oiled reuseable type. I can't remember the cost but it was under $300.

 

To can really hear a difference. You can hear the air going in big time.

 

I run that filter and it's okay imo but I can't say I like it a whole lot. The price was nice and it seems a little better than stock but it's loud as hell and it's not a good loud it's an annoying loud to me anyway. It gets really loud around 2-3k rpms. I mean it's an okay filter but I've thought about going back to stock just to quiet it down some.

I have a K&N cold air intake on my older Accord and like it a lot. It gets loud but only in the upper RPM's like 5-6k and it sounds pretty good when you get it up in that rpm range much better than the loud sucking of the Edlebrock. Now I don't know how these are on the Ram's they may be just like the Edlebrock but my Honda sounds much better to me with it than my Ram.