Stock air box

[henry302]

hello everyone. Since there is already a hole in the inner fender where most aftermarket intakes get air from. Could I cut the stock box in that location and add a k&n panel filter? (tight budget)

P.s. I do plan on getting an aftermarket intake,just cant afford right now. I have a superchips programer and mbrp 4inch turbo back. Its trying to draw more air than the stock paper filter can handle.

[dieselcrawler]

henry,
if you have the 99.5-later truck, the "DIY" airfilter set up is REALLY EASY, and no more flat filter.... cost about $40 for the (WIX 46637) filter, hose clamp and 3" long pc of 4" exhaust pipe, takes about 15 minutes to do... the early 99's might be a little more diffucult, the pipes are shaped a little diffrently, looks like it would take a 45 elbow when I looked at my friend's early 99.
If you have the later truck, do it once with the DIY air filter mod... there's write-ups on here, do a search.... Good luck

[henry302]

Thanks. Just curious though, does anyone think my idea would work?

[Cj Ford]

ya you could do that.. you would get more air, but it still wont flow the cfm of the diy tymar.. and on a early 99 you can do it liek the 99.5 with a piece of straing pipe 5" long and thr filter sits on a slight angle this set up will likely cost ya around the same as a k&n pannel filter

[CSIPSD]

The problem with the K and N filters is they do NOT seat to the factory air box properly... You can and most likely will start to see dusting occuring if you do this.

[dieselcrawler]

I agree with CJ and CSI... Same money, same time, awesome filter, no risk of harm to your motor.... go with the DIY set up...