you can get an airraid JR kit which has a NICE LOOKING tube and filter for under $150. nice compromise to me.

 

my dad always uses the "if they made any more power the factory would use them" arguement... and every time he does, I want to shoot him for spouting out such ignorance...

 

Yeah, that argument just doesnt work.

 

well the wrap was just an idea, i didnt think about it keeping heat in as i did keaping it out. for the red couplings i just had them laying around the garage and the fit do i used them. i want to change them to black ones, and was going to use black header wrap but couldnt find any so i just used that and it looks like a broken arm in a cast but i dont really care, it performs great and i could tell a difference, only cost like 50$ at the most and i didnt have 300 to spend so i did it, oh well. and no modifications to the air box at all. sorry its not a shiny polished tube.

 

So you drive an 08 truck with $2000+ worth of suspension, performance parts, and you are worried about spending too much on an intake

 

its not that i was worried about spending to much its that i just didnt have that much, FAWK!

 

Not ******* you at all.....your truck is pretty bad *** looking and it just would look better with a flat black tube (plastic kind). I got one off here for $40 bucks or so used

 

Header wrap is insulation (resistance to heat movement). If you pick up hot air it will keep the heat in. If you pick up colder air it will keep heat out. In the engine bay everything heatsoaks to an extend no matter what it is made of. Reflective insulation will help block IR heat, probably the best but not the best looking. Just zero out the IAT table
Don't worry about what some say about the tube, some don't turn any wrenches let alone build something.

 

thanks, but just thought id give it a try.

there is actually that reflective insulation tape under the wrap too lol. was that a bad idea?, thanks.

 

Very well put, have to agree

John