Okay, I am sure this question has been posed before - but I still gotta ask.
I had an accident with my 2010 F-150. In the rebuild, I got a Type-E Style Functional Ram Air Hood combined with an S&B CAI. I left the lower intake capped so I could take advantage of the functional hood with the air to flow in through the top.

Am I okay driving in the rain?

 

Hey.

Yes it has - many times, so why dint you simply use Search and answer it fer yerself, instead o' wakin ol' Bubber up?

Depends . Light occasional rain? Probably okay. Regular monsoons? Probably not such a good idea.

Moreover - at any speed you will ever be able to reach, the perf benefit of ram-air on yer truck is exactly ZERO. You simply cannot generate the positive pressure required to make any power from this mod, so what is the point? They are anything but "functional" on a stock n/a truck. You were deceived, drank the koolaid and wasted yer money. The usual result of a lack of pre-purchase research. " Oy vey... the ignomy of today's retail customers ..."

Hence, to eliminate all the potential risk of water ingestion, block it off and uncap the other inlet. You'll still get all the 'cold air' you'll need and then some - without the worry. The hood will still look 'cool' - no need to let on it's uselessly fake .

Lastly - unless you were able to get the CTS custom-tuned before the curtain fell to accommodate yer intake mod, yer S&B could well be affectfing yer MAF TF. A very good, entirely appropriate read for you: https://www.f150online.com/forums/20...highlight=2009. ( In other words, a FREE mod is producing the SAME gains yer $$$ intake is, WITHOUT incurring any MAF TF skew, lol).

Did I mention " research first" ?

Don't git bent - I'm just being upfront and brutally honest in my attempt to help yalls, without regard for the silly childish sugarcoating of Farcebook 'likes' folks appear to crave....

Good luck


MGD

 

I did the same as you many years ago with my 98, mostly for looks knowing that the performance they were selling was BS. Left it that way for over a year then added a CAI, saw minimal performance gain, in short wasted money for a functional hood just for the looks. As for the rain issue, I never had any issues due the air channel design under the hood. I probably wouldn't spray water directly into it when washing but it should be fine.

 

x3, performance will be little to nothing at all. Purely for looks. Does indeed look fantastic however. I would like a ram air good, the Good Hood style.

 

Agree ^^^^^^

The ram air effect won't begin to show gains until you reach 80+ mph...by then in a street truck...it's all over anyway.

 

Thank you all to those who replied. No big deal on whether the hood helps or not. It looks pretty damn mean. I had to get a new hood anyway - it got crunched in the accident. Took the opportunity to get a kewl new grill as well. CAI sounds sick... roars like a 4 barrel! :-)