Rush Cold Air Intake

[xrocket21]

Why do they call this a CAI when it's just a filter replacement?

because its more than just the filter, it includes tubing and the box as well?

 

[ovrlnd]

So fine, it's a filter "kit". It keeps the stock intake in place - the advantage, if there is one, is in just getting a bigger filter with more surface area. Not saying that's bad, assuming it does what it says, just that they should call it what it is.

But then, I guess they'd lose business from all of the kiddies who have to check CAI off their mod list.

 

[xrocket21]

So fine, it's a filter "kit". It keeps the stock intake in place - the advantage, if there is one, is in just getting a bigger filter with more surface area. Not saying that's bad, assuming it does what it says, just that they should call it what it is.

But then, I guess they'd lose business from all of the kiddies who have to check CAI off their mod list.

I dont think ive ever seen a 3.5TT CAI that doesnt include roughly exactly what the roush does.

edit: what the **** do you mean, "keeps the stock intake in place"?

this is the intake:

 

[ovrlnd]

So you're saying that no one makes a true CAI for the ecoboost.

What the **** I mean is that the intake part of the intake remains in place. Replacing the filter box and the adapters doesn't constitute an intake in my book. It constitutes a new filter, and a complicated way of getting it in place.

This is like getting a new muffler and calling it an 'exhaust'.

 

[xrocket21]

So you're saying that no one makes a true CAI for the ecoboost.

What the **** I mean is that the intake part of the intake remains in place. Replacing the filter box and the adapters doesn't constitute an intake in my book. It constitutes a new filter, and a complicated way of getting it in place.

This is like getting a new muffler and calling it an 'exhaust'.

hey buddy, go **** yourself

 

[ovrlnd]

Lol, your ego really is tightly wrapped up in this, isn't it?

 

[xrocket21]

Lol, your ego really is tightly wrapped up in this, isn't it?

no, the user base on this site is just full of ******* retards and im coming to accept that.

Are you talking intake manifold? or you want pipes all the way to the turbo outlet? Im pretty sure I havent seen any with piping back to the turbo outlet, they all start right at the split like that, and I don't know why. I dont think that necessarily makes it not a cold air intake though.

 

[ovrlnd]

My point is that if they don't change the location of the intake, enlarge it, or whatever, then the only benefit you get out of this, assuming that there is one, is in the filter itself. Everything in their kit apart from the filter is nothing more than a means to get that filter installed.

So call it a friggin filter kit, since that's all it is. Them calling it a CAI is just fishing for chumps who don't realize that their truck already has one.

 

[xrocket21]

My point is that if they don't change the location of the intake, enlarge it, or whatever, then the only benefit you get out of this, assuming that there is one, is in the filter itself. Everything in their kit apart from the filter is nothing more than a means to get that filter installed.

So call it a friggin filter kit, since that's all it is. Them calling it a CAI is just fishing for chumps who don't realize that their truck already has one.

I guess I do see your point some. I think that the stock location is so good, it isnt worth changing. BUT, I also think that like quiet mufflers that rob horsepower, the stock intake is baffled to be quiet as well. A louder intake is most likely a more free flowing intake. And also, there are some holes in the airbox to allow more air, as seen in pictures. I dont think it is quite the direct replacement you are thinking.

 

[ovrlnd]

Maybe. I mean, I could install an air horn backwards in the intake and it would be super loud, but not very free-flowing. It wouldn't surprise me at all if a lot of the noise in the Roush kit doesn't come from the little vortex 'silencing ring' put in.

And also, there are some holes in the airbox to allow more air, as seen in pictures.

Which, ironically, makes it less of a cold air intake than stock. And you could accomplish the same by drilling holes in the stock filter box.