Intake - probably a dumb question...

[2kool]

ok this might be a really stupid idea i dunno... but the only way ill find out is to ask anyway :drug: my brother has put one of those conical air intake kits on his car and it has improved his acceleration pretty well. you can definitely tell the different between it and his stock intake. (its not a GM or CV) so i was wondering if puttin one of those on my 89 GM would really improve anything. the stock intake seems a little restrictive to me. so i was looking at my intake today and thought of something... couldnt i just take off the tube that goes from the front of the car back to the box where the air filter is??? the opening on the box itself is much bigger than the little 1.5 inch opening there on the end of the tube. and i could just keep my air filter in there and it SEEMS like it would be the same thing as one of those conical air intake kits!?!? maybe its the stupidest idea youve ever heard... :drug: :chainsaw: :evil: :guns: :asshat: :slug:

[Jason91GM]

youll gain 2hp. but youll also have an airfilter that you can clean.. if you get a good one. and you wont have to remove your airbox to change your plugs. but you will lose the "cold air" your gettin now.... whatever you do, dont put the filter under down near the bottom of the radiator support... first flood you will be rebuilding the engine.

[89LincolnTWNcar]

ive worked with intakes on all kinds of cars. if you put a bigger pipe on it and a cone, it will feed it a little more air but it still has to squeeze through a 50mm tb on the low power 5.0's, so i doubt it would make much difference. not noticable. Companies claim 15 horsepower gains-- BS only on a fully built race engine/supercharged would it make that much. Upgrade the throttle body and that would add some power.

[Blaze86Vic]

No real power gain in that. Losing cold air negates the bery slight increase in flow. TB upgrade will help a lot, that stock sucker is a small one. Then a cone filter run all the way to the front will make you a little more power.

[gadget73]

tried to post this before but it burped or something

you;d do better to just swap in an upper intake and throttle body from an HO engine. I've been told by someone who actually experimented with removing the stock airbox on a dyno run that it makes zero difference, meaning that the airbox flows well enough that a conehead hoopty aircleaner will gain you nothing as far as performance goes. They do look better tho. That stock airbox is kind of nasty looking.