Deuce426, u said "All I run is the airraid tube with the stock box, along with a Aem filter. The stock airbox will supply enough air, and the only restrictive part is the tube due to its silencing baffles. You can always open up the stock box more if you'd like. Like it was said earlier, you wont really notice a difference in performance between any of the intakes though, especially in our trucks."

Do u think cars are that dramatic of a difference, then?

I'll say the gradual curve helped to a greater extent than the physical tube size. Altho that prolly did too.
I actually was gonna do this long before I saw this (get a CAI for an e-fan truck), but the Radix doesn't make it necessary. So... I guess the Radix saved me some money.

Corey, whatdaya mean, here's my AEM? That's an AIRAID. It even says so.
And some more pics of an AIRAID. lol

WOW! This is eye-opening. I'm starting to wonder if my tuner tuned for my CAI. So what happens to timing when ram air takes effect? Would it pull timing?

 

suddog what branch are/where u in?

 

I did this when I went for the quick fix, and before I had my AEM/Brute Force

 

Dont rub it in...

But I live on a tropical island where it is warm/hot all the time. Two seasons...raining and not raining soo much. LOL

Air Force still. I have 4.5 years left until I can retire...then on to my second career (whatever that is)

 

Ramair will make it cool off faster. Ill have to look at my tune later on and see at what IAT is starts pulling timing. At one column it was like half a degree, then the next was a degree then I think 2 degrees but Ill have to look it was a few weeks ago that I was messing with that. The biggest thing I think is the box acts like a heat sink and retains the heat and the MAF is directly bolted to the box to conduct that heat to the IAT sensor too. Here soon its not going to matter since Ill be exceeding the MAF and doing away with it but for how much the volant costs its not worth it IMO.

 

opps sorry, i meant Airraid not AEM... Long day yesterday...

 

on my old crew cab I was running originally with an airaid cai, it was open to the engine heat. Wheatley did a tune for me and the intake temps were pretty high and this was with the plastic airaid tube. I swapped back to the stock intake box with a true-flow iar filter and an airaid intake tube and the temps went down considerably. I also modded the stock box slightly for a little more airflow.

I didn't notice any loss in power by going to the stock box or any gains really, but the truck actually felt like it ran smoother/better. Not saying power-wise necessarily, it just felt better in some way.

All I ever run now is the stock box(modded) drop-in filter and an airaid tube. for the performance gain difference versus the price its good enough for me.

 

DA and temp could also have this big of a difference when it comes to the tuen being off on a day to day basis. The only way to verify this effect is by doing back to back comparisons on days with the same D/A, humidity, temp and so on...

Just like how different D/A's yeild different track results..

From my personal tunning experience, the AEM colled down much quicker than the volant, and the volant stayed 3-4* above ambient where the AEM was 1* above ambient. the KNN showed similar results to the volant but it took longer to cool down.

 

Like i said the days were similar in temp and it was summer so the humidity was nothing, cause it was during our dry season... so i bet the DA was close....

 

So a lot of people are running the stock box (modded a little), drop in filter, and an Airraid tube. I like the look of the stock box. The less people know whatcha got, the better.