It is far less restrictive than stock and I have never ever heard of the pvc chipping and going into a throttle body. This intake is also better than stock as it delivers cooler air to the truck, that's the point of a cold air intake.

 

Just wondering.. What did you do with your Sensor??

 

thanks for thinking logically and gettin my back moto.

and there isn't any sensors on my intake until after the throttle body..only a pcv tube.

 

Your Air Intake sensor is bofore your throttle body. The 90 degree bends are gonna hurt.. Just like takin pointA to C on a triangle. Too many sharp bends. You're restricting the airflow worse than the stock set up. You do have a filter on there, don't you??

 

What If?

Ford sells about 900,000 F150 pickups
GM and Chevy sell about 1,200,000
Dodge about 400,000
Toyota and Nissan total a bit less than 300,000

That's a grand total of 2,800,000 full size pickup per year.

I would guess one in ten owners buy an aftermarket air intake at a cost between $120 and $320

I would guess one in 50 owners build an aftermarket air intake at a parts cost of $50 and 10-20 hours of thinking, buying parts and installing.

The aftermarket air intake Manufacturers,
plus the retail seller,
{both brand name and 'eBay' ones}
make at least $100 profit before taxes.

2,800,000 divided by 10, then multiplied by $100
= $28 million profits per year

That same $28 million would pay the $28,000 annual tuition at the average engineering school and make 1,000 poor but smart kids who otherwise would not get training into engineers.

Then if each of those smart kids would repay their scholarships
by taking the time over their professional lifetimes of say, 40 years,
to explain to 280 pickup owners...or seven per year...
the facts about air intake systems
we would have a lot let ignorance in the good ol' USA.

For the DIY air intake builder, keep in mind that
the average wage in the USA right now is about $17 per hour.
If the DIY owner kept track of his hours thinking about, buying parts, and installing his design, how much would the $ be?
In most cases the result is just an intake that makes more noise and fills up with bugs and road 'grit' faster.

This becomes a real shame when you realize
that the same DIY owner could have made some equally easy
aerodynamic mods to his pickup to make it slip thru the wind with less horsepower at typical 65 to 75 mph speeds. These aero mods improve MPG, make the pickup accelerate faster, or makes towing more stable.

 

yes i do have a filter einstien look at the pictures

 

You asked for comments. Love the pink K&N sticker.. I did my own Intake today. Took my hood off and put pantiehoes on my throttle body!

 

Yeah I like the orange and red K&N sticker as well. It's a nice touch considering he probably has a K&N cone filter on the end. Why would you waste your pantiehoes on your throttle body? Don't you need them when you take your boy friend out on dates?

 

It's a joke! I have a real intake by K&N. They don't make any silver or grey conical filters. The knock off decal is pink. Look at the damn pic. I'll leave yer buddy alone now..

 

I've been using my homemade black pvc pipe intake for 3 years, others on here have been using them longer, use the forum search to find them. My plastic has not got brittle, it did not melt, and I use a k&n cone on the end. My gas mileage has gone up, not largely, but by 1 to miles per galleon on the hwy. City driving is about the same. Too each his own. Also, it sounds good when I step into it.