Looks good Pat

Clean that cover tho will ya? Hell I wash and wax mine all the time

 

Really good idea, I'll be doing that tomorrow.

 

Wow, owned my '06 for almost 2 years now and never noticed that little "teat" they call a hook for the gas cap. Thanks for pointing that out!

 

so i learned this trick from my friends dad, but i took it a little more extreme...
let me know if anyone would like pictures of how its done step by step.

ok so the ford F150s have the cylinder shaped air boxes with the rubber peice going into the fender... Start by removing that rubber part, then remove the upper part of the air box and remove air filter. Then draw a circle about 4in down from the inlet part (or how ever far down you want) then cut around your circle, put it all back together and your stock air filter will now have increased airflow and the filter will be showing for the look of a cold air intake. works great with the K&N drop in stock filter replacment.

 

So instead of getting cold air from the fender you want to draw warm air straight from the engine. That is just spectacular. That would almost preheat your engine for you. Smart Idea!



Go with the Gotts mod

 

 

Actually I'm going to go with the warm air intake, which by the way most CAI are.

Cold air does make more power. It does this by allowing you to burn more fuel at a given throttle opening.

To get the same amount of power as you'd get with a "normal air" intake, you indeed close the throttle some. But you're burning about the same amount of fuel you burned making that level of power, and a more-closed throttle means that your engine has to work harder to draw the air through that opening.

Warm air makes you open the throttle more for a given amount of power. But you are still burning that same basic amount of fuel, more or less. But since your throttle is open wider, your engine doesn't have to work as hard to draw the air in. This reduces "pumping losses", making the car slightly more fuel efficient.

I believe the difference between WAI and CAI on hot days is small as compared to really cold days.

 

Yours probably mounts like mine.
All I did was put a bolt in the hole in arm. Then I put a nut on both sides of arm to hold in place with the space for the attached strap to hang on.
This works great and is neat.

 

Here's my version. The only limitation is that the gas cap needs to end up somewhere in the 2 o'clock position for proper clearance.