Last week when I ran the Sonoma I had a small K&N cone filter attached to the MAF. After just one run the K&N would get so hot I couldn't touch it. Those of you who are familiar with these cars know that there is absolutely no significant air opening for the intake short of taking off the driver side headlight.

I decided to bust out the sawzaw and take care of that problem! I cut a 4x7" opening in the fender and a matching opening in the stock air box. I then threw a K&N stock replacement filter in and buttoned it back up. It sure felt good cutting in to a 1 month old truck. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

Here are some pics:

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<img src="http://members.aol.com/terencevv/mycars/truck4.jpg" alt=" - " />

<img src="http://members.aol.com/terencevv/mycars/truck3.jpg" alt=" - " />

The car now sucks plenty of fresh air from the wheel well area, and as a bonus looks completely stock. More cheap mods coming soon!

 

You may want to develope some type of splash guard to keep any water from entering the opening.

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Puffnstuff:
<strong>You may want to develope some type of splash guard to keep any water from entering the opening.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thats the same thing I was thinking.

I've had the K&N with my ATI Procharger kit get pretty wet before but, the supercharger atomizes any water that makes it thru pretty good. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

Why don't you just drop a LS1 in that thing and be done with it. Afterall this is the "GM V8 Truck Performance" forum. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

Keep up the mods.(Just don't get too ghetto) <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> I really want to see if you can put the truck in the 13 sec. range on street tires. <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" />

John

 

sounds kool have u thought about a converter for this truck that should wake it up.

 

Good Idea.
You plan on cleaning it up a little?

 

I'm going to track test first. If it shows a gain I'll round the edges out a bit. The nice thing about this though is the truck looks 100% stock from the top.

 

Hmmm, Looks like a COLD WATER INTAKE. Thats ok, once you Hydroloc the motor, you have an excuse to slap a vette motor in it.

Ive been <img border="0" alt="[chug]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_chug.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[chug]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_chug.gif" /> agian and working on Fords.