Anyone have this combo on their ECOBOOST? If so, can I get your unbiased honest impression on how things are working out?

I understand that some think that it's better to leave the EB alone on intake and exhaust whereas others have had excellent additional results with this kind of a setup.

I'm looking for opinions, honest thoughts, and some input....

THANKS, GUYS!

-RP-

 

Nothing? Zero?

 

No... really, guys. Don't bombard me with opinions, thoughts, dirty jokes, or anything else....

 

Mosey on over to the 'other' forum. Plop 'afe' into th' ol' Search engine (Title search), pull up a comfy chair, a libation in hand, and start readin'. Y'all'll be a while - thar be a fair peck o' info.

Seems more'n a few hucklebums whut buyed these thangs is a-sellin' 'em. That cain't be good.

Reckon ye stay stock and sleep better at night. It ain't like ye's unnerpowered, aight.

As fer "bombard me with opinions, thoughts, dirty jokes, or anything else" ... what, ye want me to git banned? Agin?

Good luck wif ye searchin' ....

 

Rockpick, if you can stop laughing over Old Black Sheep Bubba's reply long enough to read this, I'll offer my opinion. And, it's an opinion only, based on my engineering background and not on owning one of the things you're asking about.

A turbocharger provides so much additional air to mix with fuel all by itself, that I cannot see how any kind of intake could provide any kind of significant gain. Yes, you could certainly see a reduction in air (and power) if you choked the intake down to say, the diameter of a quarter, but that's not the direction you're going. I think the only way you could see an increase in power would be to replace the stock blower with one that compresses air to a higher pressure. That new blower might well come with a larger intake, but adding one to the stock blower is going to have little to no effect on the downstream pressure.

Exhausts MAY increase power incrementally, but I suspect the gains would be negligible, just as they generally are in a normally aspirated engine. I honestly think the greatest effect would be in making your wallet lighter.

I'm not saying there wouldn't be ANY gains from either of these two mods, just that the gains would be so small you would not be able to "feel" them and if you measured them they would not be statistically significant.

My opinion, probably worth exactly what you paid for it.

- Jack

 

Thanks, guys. That post was incredibly hard to read, MGD. LOL!

Looking across what I've found, it seems like a pretty even split on people saying they LOVE or HATE their aFe.

I think it may lighten my wallet a tad but, I may just give it a go.... *shrugs*

 

It was even harder to write it

I'd wager some of those folks who purport to 'Love' their aFe's are being a might disingenuous. Some fellers ( okay - a LOT, lol) tend to be rather reluctant to admit they royally screwed up buying a mod that, in point of fact, did bupkis .

If yer looking fer that very last hundredth of a second ET or that last fractional trap speed increase, AND you've optimized everything else in preparation for the same WFO shenanigans, then go fer it. I suspect, though, that isn't yer primary goal.

Fer a daily driver, yer wallet's mass decrease will likely result in the same gains. The 'noise' (a.k.a 'racket') these thangs make - thet be a'nudder story. To me, said cacophony simply does not compute on a truck as NVH-refined as a KR, IMHO.

As usual, Sir Jack has nailed it. He, like Bernoulli, is one sharp feller.

BSB

 

Leave it to you to bring in Bernoulli. Poor guy... and to compare Jack to him? Blasphemy!

 

Last I seen, Jack doesn't help airplanes fly

 

Sure he did - the planes he flew in combat sure dint fly themselves ...

Bernoulli also did a mean pasta sauce .. or was that Bertolli?

Anyhoo - RP, yer Q was ( at least partially) answered years ago, here: https://www.f150online.com/forums/v6...tane-tune.html

Nothing has changed - the gains are all in the (custom) tuning.

BSB

 

Thanks, bud. Not convinced of any direction so, I think I'm going to sit on my **** and think about it (and evaluate the weight of my wallet after the holidays).

 

Was the reference to Bernoulli a clever way to comment on my age? I'm not quite that old, although each morning when I get up I'm less sure of that state. These days, I guess it's good enough that I DO get up.

I tend to side with old Black Sheep Bubba on the folks who love their aFe's. Beyond the fact that it would be embarrassing to admit that they threw a lot of money away for something that doesn't really work, they can fall back on, and take comfort from the "It looks so cool" factor every time they pop the hood.

Eyewash is everything to some folks.

- Jack

 

If you're looking for sound...that Corsa system Abraham has sounds pretty decent. That's coming from a guy who laughs at ecotooters with exhausts


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=keRXLandT7Y

 

Okay... I'm custom tuned now and I did go ahead and buy a aFE intake (you guys weren't lying about the noise -- it doesn't really bother me though)...

What does bother me with the noise is the 'pop'. I'm not sure I can really describe it but, it sounds like a rubber popper that a kid would play with.... it happens during the pressure change at a shift point - and doesn't always happen. I've taken the stack filters off several times and have re-installed them but haven't really put my finger on an absolute reason why or why not it happens.

Anyone have a thought?