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Volant Intake Install on a 2005 Ford Powerstroke
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- Rodslinger -
 
By - Rodslinger -
Published on 10/28/2006
 
Well the Santa in the big brown truck dropped off a box.......

Volant Cold Air Intake Installation on a 2004 Ford Powerstroke
 Here is the Parts kit out of the box - great quality let me tell you and very straight forward. I MUST say, you need to inventory your parts. They left out the two screws for bolting in my Mass Flow Sensor plate. It was not a big deal to me I've got every tool and bolt known to man and live near a large city but if you happen to be somewhere where you can't obtain things easily this could have been a problem. 

Anyone who has ever popped your hood on a 6.0 knows what this is! And it's gotta come out. I could have posted the picture of my pulling out the OEM box but it's VERY straight forward. Pop the clips to your filter....play with it for a sec.....or two - if you look down at it you'll see how to get it free from the front and rear and pull it up. Once the OEM filter is out, the front snorkel piece comes right out, no blots or screws. Now unscrew the bands attaching the pipe to the turbo inlet. Here's what you've got when it's done. Oh don't worry about the OEM intake boxes saddle that mounts to the battery tray, the fit was fine and it wasn't in the way. I didn’t' catch that in the picture but you'll see what I'm talking about when you pull it out.

 Pretty cool pic of the turbo inlet. 

ALRIGHT - let's put the Volant in. Here was the way I did it - it was a tight fit so I started by lying the "Volant air duct" in place - just lay it in and let it sit loose at a bit of an angle. Lay in the "filter box" next.



Now you can align the two - don't put the bolts in yet, just attach the two.



Now lay your clamps in place and put the "hump hose" on.....be sure and get yours facing the right direction. Not that it matter, but once I was finished I noticed my "hump hose" logo faced the wrong direction. It didn't matter to me so I left it. 

Here is what it looks like laid in place - I haven't tightened anything up yet.



Now that everything is in place, connected and fits well, I went ahead and tightened up the clamps and the screws connecting the air box and air duct.





Install the rubber grommets for the Mass Flow Sensor and the Air Filter Sensor you removed from the OEM setup. Here is where I had to find some screws to replace the ones that weren't in the kit. No big deal although worth mentioning.





Now clamp in the new air filter.



Bolt down the Ram Air Lid and there you have it!






WELL! What do I think about it? I love it - I can hear my turbo whistle better and....maybe it's me but I seem to have a little quicker throttle response. I'll drive it for a week and give a better opinion.