rangerkid91
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Is cold air intake worth putting on my ranger, or on a vehicleat all? It is a 2.9l I hear it can increase your horse power and gas mileage.
















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Ford put one on for you, in 1987.
This is the man to listen too.Increase horsepower, yes. Increase gas mileage, no. 87's are actually quite easy to make a ram air setup with. There is a plate just behind the grill on the passenger side where the air intake is. Remove this plate and remove the ductwork between it and the bottom of the airbox. Replace the ductwork and hot air pipe (if applicable), with 3" aluminum drier hose. Keep it as straight as possible along with securing it to the inner fender on the passenger side. Next using the grill as support, I cut up a bunch of plastic lids and grafted a scoop to the air intake opening behind the grill. Nothing gaudy or crazy, just if it hit the grill in front of the intake it would be forced into it. This setup with a bit of tweaking worked great and was cheap to do. It actually flowed very nicely, I could have someone blow air into the scoop behind the grill and easily feel the air at the throttle body. Now considering that I can feel somone blow air into it, I'd imagine it was flowing quite a bit at 60 mph. This was the basic idea of it, there were a few airbox tweaks and some other minor stuff in there but that's the major part. Combine this with some phenolic spacers and you will deffinitly notice a power difference on a cold air day. I ran a setup like this for years, I eventually went to a cowl induction setup, becouse I needed the airbox area for my nitrous equipment. But the original ram air setup did make a bit more power.
Pat Kunz
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If you do it the way listed above, it will be a true cold air intake and will draw in cooler air.
The bolt on kits are a waste as they only draw in hot air from the engine compartment.