Hello All,

I have heard that one of the important mods to make is the FIPK. Sorry I don't know what that is and would sure like to know. I have order my Superchip and am working on dual exhaust right now. Thanks for the help.

Steve

 

FIPK is a Fuel Injection Performance Kit--its a bolt on intake kit with a K*N filter. It improves gas milage as well as throttle response and gives a little torque, sometimes as much as 10-15% hp gain. Along with your superchip and exhaust, this is a must-have for 200 bucks!!!

 

Steve,

A FPIK is a Fuel Injection Performance Kit. While the name might lead you to believe other things, it is actually a new intake for the engine.

The concept is to remove the stock filter, and stock intake tube between the MAFS and the Throttle body with a design that is better then stock.
A few things that make it better then stock.
- Larger / Better filter. The K&N filter and the one found on eBay have an open filter design that allow the engine to draw more air into the throttle body, and provide for more air, and the PCM adjusts to increase the amount of fuel into the engine as well ( take from the Mass Air Flow Sensor and the Air Intake Temperature ).
The more air that the MAFS sees the more fuel gets added to the mix. That is the 5 cent tour on how the HP is added to the mix.
A write up on it :
http://www.knfilters.com/FIPK/fipk.htm

The brands ( in no specific order )
Air Force 1
Airaide
K&N
Iceman
Roush
WMS Velocity tube
eBay FIPK ( don't have any idea the name of this one, jsut what you will see it refered to around here ).

Some use the stock air box, with a reuseable drop in filter in placeof the stock paper element.
The concept of this is the marketing term "cold air intake" as it is drawing air from the front fender, via a slightly different fender to air box connector. The cold air is only as cold as the outside aair is, maybe slightly higher ??
Still the amount of air available is what the opening to the fender allows for, rather then the open element type that can draw over the entire filter element. This is due to a larger element mostly that would not fit in the stock filter housing. But this design is to be said to take in super heated air from under the hood.
Smaller amount of cooler air vs larger amounts of hotter air is the basic options between the 2 designs.

I am trying to keep my opinion out of the post, to just try to answer your question, rather then pushing you towards one design or another. Please take this as information only, not a pro / con of one over the other type.
If you search on google for the names above, you can see the design options of them, with the write ups on each.
For the most part, anything is better then stock.

Hope this answers you question.

Steve

 

do you know the links directly to any of these other than K&N? I went looking for Roush, found the site but apparently no fipk for F150s. Same with a couple of the others. Would much appreciate it. Thanks..

R.K.

 

sscully-what is your opinion on the FIPK's? Ive been considering one for a while now but im not sure if the power gain and the fuel milage gain is worth the 200 bucks. If you ahve any experience i would appreciate it!

 

sometimes as much as 10-15% hp gain.

This is not to intended to flame anyone, but the above statement is more what advertisers will claim as opposed to real world numbers. One of the trucking magazines did a test on 3 popular ones awhile back and they typically experienced around 3 to 5 hp gains. I'll try and look through my stack of magazines and see which magazine and issue it was in. An FIPK kit can be beneficial with other mods, but don't expect any real alarming gains hp or mpg wise. The best bang for the buck is a chip and an exhaust, but the drawback is at the xpense of having to use more expensive premium gas.

 

Hi ssinor,

Welcome to the site.
Check out this article, it should tell you everything you need to know.

Habibi

http://www.fordtruckworld.com/tenart...p?sid=2&aid=38

 

Good job Habibi. I think that's the article I remember reading.

 

Agreed... you need a good exhaust system to take full advantage of the FIPK... more air in means more air out. The air out has to go somewhere.

Start by looking at a good cat-back system; something with a straight-through design (Magnaflow, glasspack, etc.). You'll be suprised by the results for a relatively low amount of money (ends up being ~$10 per HP)

-Flea

 

rkm,

The links that I have :
Air Force 1 : cannot find this right now
Airaide : airaid.com
K&N : knfilters.com
Iceman : icemanmotorsports.com
Roush : In the catalog that you down load from the site.
( oddly enough the Iceman and the Roush look exactly the same )
WMS Velocity tube : wmsracing.com ( sometimes there server does not work so well for some reason )
eBay FIPK ( don't have any idea the name of this one, jsut what you will see it refered to around here ). : On eBay if you search for FIPK ( here on F150online.com ) , you should find the link to the place that sells these.
The other I forgot is MAC intake.

Green_98,
The short end of the story, don't believe the BS about the hot air under the hood. It is not what some make it out to be.
Don't limit the field of selections to the "cold air intake" or fresh air intake. At most when the truck is moving there is a 5* delta to the outside air temp and the AIT readng from the PCM.
There is a thread on the testing I did in the engine section on this ( last year JUL sometime ).

A FIPK with a cat back ( or true duals ) and a chip are 3 of the 4 best mods you can do.

The 4th being electric fans.

Some would put pullies in this so it is 3 out of the 5, you need to ask someone else about that, I am by no means an expert on them, and I won't even pontificate about them.

If you are trying to cost justify doing performance mods by MPG, then stop now. I found that if you keep a vac gauge at 14 to 19 in/hg area you will get good mpg.
The truck will not go off the line very fast at all. Adding in HP items will make this easier to do, but you will soon find out that you cannot keep the VAC gauge above 5 when taking off, and that is drinking time for the injectors
Tonight driving home, I found it is real easy to maintain 14+ in/hg with the new Bassani Duals on my truck. Guess what..I also found it is more fun getting on it, and feeling the go power LoL
mpg in the crapper for another month until I get used to the fun.

Navi Man,

They are not fibing, and the testing that shows 3 to 5 HP gain is 10-15% hp gain on a 300 HP engine. Where is the lie at ?
No flame intended but you did what they hoped you would do, see 10 to 15% and read it as 10 to 15 HP increase.
FTW testing shows that 10 to 15% is what you actually get.
The other part that is missing is the 10 to 15 % increase FWHP or RWHP ? If they have a 300 HP rated ( at the flywheel ) engine, that is a 3 to 4.5 HP increase, again at the Flywheel.
RWHP that is ummm... 1.2 or something
Marketing people get paid huge money to make people see things that are not there. Again no flame, just pointing out that the truth was told in the ad.

I tried not to turn this into a soap box thread, but you asked for it LoL !

Good luck, post back if you need more, and wait and see what others post.

 

No flame taken, but a 10 to 15% gain on a 300hp engine would be 30 to 45 horsepower gain. I'm sure you would agree that's a pretty strong expectation out of an air kit.

 

Here's something else to think about if $200+ seems to be more than you want to fork out. I did the FIPK thing a while back along with a Magnaflow catback exhaust and chip, and am very satisfied with the results. The FIPK I installed was actually a combination of a couple parts (Ebay FIPK and a new 9" Airaid filter). All said and told I spent approximately $110 total for it. I may get flamed for this comment (SSCULLY be gentle!), but 'any' kit out there should be a significant improvement over the stock airbox. My combination kit may not yield the same HP/Torgue increase that an Airforce 1 kit ($239.00 + shipping) might yield, but realistically how much difference do you think there'd really be? I'd venture a guess of very little. I think my kit turned out pretty well and it didn't break the bank (which left more money for other mods!).

Just another opinion. Good luck with your decision.

 

just to clear up my misconception....isn't 30 HP = to a 10% increase on an engine that is 300 HP?

 

Oppps basic math skills are out the window at this point

Sorry about that, that is 1.0 to 1.5% increase.

Thanks for pointing that one out to me.

Even if the claim is FWHP that still does not compute ( using normal math, not dumb@ss math like me ) 10% at the flywheel of a 260 HP engine, ( I seem to recall ~ 220 RWHP, but considering I cannot do basic math, you might want to check that one ) That is a FWHP increase of 26 HP, then with the loss by the trans, that would still be calculated to be in the 17 RWHP increase area. NFW ! A chip is like 25 HP increase over stock.

Long day today, I think you made it more then clear I need to hang it up for the night.

Thanks for not handing me my b@lls, whilest I make an @ss out of myself.

Big Deal,
I did list that one, don't know` squat about it myself. Never seen a dyno number on it alone, to know how good it is. Can't be any worse then the small pipe to the fender that Ford puts on them ( heck I think a big gulp straw is about the only thing worse then that )

mf150,
yes, Navi Man showed me where my basic math skills went south for the evening.


Last post for the day for me.

Steve ( aka The dumb@ss of the day, I think Darwin said something about the likes of me )

 

Hey don't worry about it SSCULLY. I've made my own share of mistakes and bad math. We go to school for about 16 years of our lives, only to forget it in 2 days. Have one on me.