Air Intakes

[JRaptor11]

I looked at the inside of my AFE tube last night and it is metal.

 

[Red]

I did the KN CAI on mine and it performs great.

 

[DirtNasty]

If you want the injen get the injen, i would just look into swapping out the filter element for a powercore.

 

[justvettn]

Why whats wrong with the Nanofiber filter it looks just like the powercore, LOL! and I run mine with a hydroshield prefilter

 

[kawie95]

Incase you want a reminder of Henessey (roush) intake and how it does hard core offroading:
http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f178/disappointing-email-roush-12745/index4.html#post316604

I have lots of posts and pictures, just do a search.

Now using a Volant Powercore as of last night. Talk to Outlaw, they have the best prices I can find.

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Heres another Henessey/K&N bashing thread of mine:
http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f24/making-box-henessey-intake-12980/

I am pretty hard on vehicles to be fair.

 

[justvettn]

If you want the injen get the injen, i would just look into swapping out the filter element for a powercore.

Donaldson says that the Nanofiber is far superior to anything else for a material to filter out dirt. INJEN uses Nanofiber for filter material in the Raptor CAI.

I think the Powercore is Nanofiber as well but not sure on that one.

 

[DirtNasty]

Donaldson says that the Nanofiber is far superior to anything else for a material to filter out dirt. INJEN uses Nanofiber for filter material in the Raptor CAI.

I think the Powercore is Nanofiber as well but not sure on that one.

It actually looks like injen is using donaldsons filter media (nanofiber).

The big difference is the way they use the filter element, donaldsons powercore actually packs in a crap ton more surface area due to the nature of its design. Which is how they are able to do 100k miles vs xxk miles of an injen filter.

(if you think about it for a second it will make sense, just look at how the air enters into each filter)

powercore's structure

THe injen is using the same material just in the "normal" way where its one barrier for the air to pass thru, the powercore could actually end up being filtered multiple times as it moves vertically through the element.

 

[whtrapta]

I love my volant with the powercore filter! It replaces the whole stock box and uses a real lid, vs smashing the hood on top as a lid.

 

[Travis_2308]

I am old school and hate plastic performance parts. I work on a lot of Hot Rods and Muscle cars and its a big taboo to put plastic parts under the hood. I feel the same way about my Raptor. If I can find a better CAI then the INJEN I will give it a try, but it just cant be plastic.
INJEN makes a lot of different designs including sealed box types with fine wire mesh for openings, unfortunately only one for the Raptor so far.

The sealed wire mesh box was the one that I had, if they had a raptor version of it, I would have already bought it by now

 

[whataboutbob]

I got an aFe from 5startuning.com and cant be more happier with it. Its metal and I havent any problems with it for the past 2 years. I use the oil based filter and the sock that some with it. I also dont beat my truck its 2 years old with only 15k miles on it. Summertime I ride my harley unless the weather is bad.