Let's see you Home-Made Mods
#17
My own ram air hood. Mustang scoop and a little DIY duct work. Came from a 90s lumina and an 86 T-bird.
Looks pretty sweet!!
#18
Hey DIY.
Guess I havent read that thread, but I havent had any troubles or codes with my ram air. It does ingest a little more litter, dirt, leaves, bugs, stuff like that so I clean the K&N more often. Also, I can not run it in winter as snow will make its way to the filter. I have tried everything and it will still freeze up.
As for rain, the way mine is, rain is heavy enough it will not make it directly to the filter. I have driven in some really heavy storms with nary a problem. I also have a couple small drain holes to let water out of the system.
As for making it. After I mounted the scoop and before I cut the hood, I determined the size hole I could cut in the hood. I went to a junk yard and popped hoods to see what I could find to come up with what I had pictured in the ol nogin. I ended up modding the top of a Lumina air box to act as the box that seals to the hood. It is mounted to the top of the engine by a bracket I made and has a 3/4 foam seal on top to seal to the hood. Bought the foam at Lowe's.
For the tube, my son killed a the T bird and I was just getting read to sell it for scrap, robbed the intake tube from that. It is almost three inches in dia.
It had just the right preformed bends I needed.
I cut a hole in the stock box of the truck and plugged off the stock opening so all air passes thru the scoop.
Like I said, I have had no problems. I have put at least 40-50 K miles on it since its been in use. I usually run it April to Nov, then I use another air filter cover that has three 3 inch holes cut in it to let in more air.
As for how it works, I can notice a difference at speeds above 30 mph. Someone else built one from my design and said the same.
It does make a pretty cool sound when nailing the go pedal.
All and all I have been happy with it and the looks and comments I get are cool too.
I have some pics in my gallery of the work, I think some have been deleted. Any other questions just ask. Hope that helped.
Sled...
Guess I havent read that thread, but I havent had any troubles or codes with my ram air. It does ingest a little more litter, dirt, leaves, bugs, stuff like that so I clean the K&N more often. Also, I can not run it in winter as snow will make its way to the filter. I have tried everything and it will still freeze up.
As for rain, the way mine is, rain is heavy enough it will not make it directly to the filter. I have driven in some really heavy storms with nary a problem. I also have a couple small drain holes to let water out of the system.
As for making it. After I mounted the scoop and before I cut the hood, I determined the size hole I could cut in the hood. I went to a junk yard and popped hoods to see what I could find to come up with what I had pictured in the ol nogin. I ended up modding the top of a Lumina air box to act as the box that seals to the hood. It is mounted to the top of the engine by a bracket I made and has a 3/4 foam seal on top to seal to the hood. Bought the foam at Lowe's.
For the tube, my son killed a the T bird and I was just getting read to sell it for scrap, robbed the intake tube from that. It is almost three inches in dia.
It had just the right preformed bends I needed.
I cut a hole in the stock box of the truck and plugged off the stock opening so all air passes thru the scoop.
Like I said, I have had no problems. I have put at least 40-50 K miles on it since its been in use. I usually run it April to Nov, then I use another air filter cover that has three 3 inch holes cut in it to let in more air.
As for how it works, I can notice a difference at speeds above 30 mph. Someone else built one from my design and said the same.
It does make a pretty cool sound when nailing the go pedal.
All and all I have been happy with it and the looks and comments I get are cool too.
I have some pics in my gallery of the work, I think some have been deleted. Any other questions just ask. Hope that helped.
Sled...
#20
Does this count?
For those who werent around at the time this was(is) the only billtet F150 shifter out there, 100% made by me.
History can be found here
http://204.127.198.24/~broken003/
and here
https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...hreadid=144946
For those who werent around at the time this was(is) the only billtet F150 shifter out there, 100% made by me.
History can be found here
http://204.127.198.24/~broken003/
and here
https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...hreadid=144946
#21
#22
Originally Posted by DIYMechanic
Wow, I'm impressed. Are you a machinist or did you sub the work out? Looks awesome. If I had one of those trucks, I'd buy one! Yeah, that definitely counts!--DIY
And just avoid confusion these shifters aren't for sale (never were). If you want to know why read the website it explains everything.