My friend and I were talking this weekend about our trucks. He owns a Chevy Colorado SS. I own a 1997 Ford F150, with the performance tune on a superchip, an AF1 CAI, and a BBK throttle body. I plan on continuing to mod my truck in the future.

Besides the point, we talked about running a drain tile duct from our bumpers, next to the license plate, to our cold air intake (near). For ten dollars, could this be a good idea?

I would think the outside air would be at least 80 degrees cooler than under the hood, but you would effect the natural airflow of ford design under the hood, by adding the duct?

I realize that any advantages would come from higher miles an hour, but this is something to ponder.

My question is has anyone done it, is it safe, and does it produce and power or gas mileage?

 

i'd be worried about sucking water or something into it

 

You mean like a forced air induction...

 

I think the wheel-well inlet on the stock intake does pretty much the same thing. Are you talking about running a piece of pvc pipe under the front bumper?

That won't look ghetto at all. Or will it?

If forced induction is what you're trying to get at, this is not the way. You'd have to drive like 90 mph at all times to make any difference.

 

Above the licence plate with black drane pipe. Then again it may melt. You have gotta think that 70 degree colder air than under the hood would make a huge difference, even at 40 miles an hour.

 

I actually did this but it was a few years ago on my dodge neon. I ran ducting from my foglight hole to my cold air that actually went to the bottom of the car to get actual cold air. Now it might sound ghetto cause I used a big coffe can to cover the air filter with the duct running to the fog light. Sounds like it would make a difference but it did a whole lot of nothing. it actually fell off one time But there was no difference at all.

 

i read somewere that at 40MPH the air under the hood is only 10 degrees warmer then the ambient air outside, even at idle, stopped the air under the hood is only 30-40 degrees warmer than ambient air outside. i think you wont see a diffrence at all

 

I might can believe that..

No way man. Have you ever turn the truck off and immediatly opend the hood to do somthing under it... It's WAY hot under there.

 

30-40 degress is a huge difference in temp though, i mean think about it. u can tell the difference in 80 degress to 90 pretty easily cant u. it feels way hotter

 

for about every 10 degrees you can lower the air temperature....it is only 1 horsepower gained....so a difference of 30-40 degrees would only be about 4 horsepower.

 

It gets to easily 140 degrees under the hood. Shoot one of those non-contact thermometer at virtually anything under the hood after a drive. Espically after it builds up at a stoplight or in traffic.