Re: Re: Homebrew air hats

From: Hoegen (hoegen@kersur.net)
Date: Sat Apr 28 2001 - 12:06:09 EDT


I'm not familiar with the older Daks, but is there room to have the K&N cone
attach directly to the stock air hat. If so, this could be done using a pipe
clamp (of course the "cold air" benefit would be lost because the filter
would be atop the engine.

??

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Kevin
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"Doug Fedeli" <rdf@eznet.net> wrote in message news:3AEAEDAE.7494D205@eznet.net... > His Dak is a 90 pre mag. If his air filter housing is like the one on my 92 was > there is no good way to use PVC. It's the old styled round housing with a 9" > filter. It's ok for "normal" driving, but if you use the spreadsheet off of > Bernd's site the 9" filter starts choking off the V6 at anything over about 3800 > RPM. With a V8 it drops to about 2800 RPM. I got a slightly used PoBoy intake > (air hat to filter) from another DMLer (thanks Scott) and it's working great. > > Doug Fedeli > > Hoegen wrote: > > > Use your stock air hat and just attach PVC tubing to it using a pipe > > connecter...that's what I did and I think it worked out great. No probs in > > 1.5 years: > > > > http://www.lightband.com/~hoegen/after.jpg > > > > "powell" <scmods@ufl.edu> wrote in message > > news:3.0.6.32.20010427224902.0080d580@grove.ufl.edu... > > > I've been thinking about setting up a cold air intake on my 1990 dak for a > > > couple months. But I haven't been able to figure out how to homebrew a > > > 'hat' for the throttle body. Last night I was looking at some tupperwear > > > containers and coffee cans and scratching my head. This would be easy if > > I > > > could find PVC pipe in 5.25 diameter. Has any one come up with a simple > > > solution for this? > > > > > > 1990 Dakota > > > 4x4, 3.9, 74k > > > > > > >



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