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<blockquote data-quote="Ruger" data-source="post: 49160" data-attributes="member: 1594"><p>And now, true believers, another testosterone boiling installment of…</p><p></p><p>THE RAPTOR CHRONICLES!</p><p></p><p>Our hero has been busy. All kinds of new bits and parts have been installed on the new white Raptor in the garage:</p><p>- RECON Diamond White headlight bulbs</p><p>- Sylvania Silverstar backup bulbs</p><p>- Blazer Crystal Rod Lense fog lights</p><p>- A 17 inch radio antenna</p><p>- Line-X bed liner in the truck’s bed and rear wheel wells</p><p>- AquaPel windshield treatment</p><p>And there’s a N-Fab Tail Runner rear bumper guard on the way.</p><p></p><p>But the real story here is our hero’s glorious plans to modify the factory intake. Alas, those plans will not come to full fruition. He was on the verge, credit card in hand, of ordering the parts he needed last night and then a flash of unaccountably lucid insight assaulted his otherwise placid brain. “I wonder if it’ll work,” he thought. “Maybe I oughta look.” (duh?)</p><p></p><p>Out to the garage he went, and before he knew it he had intake parts all over t he garage floor. Carefully measuring with precision calipers, he discovered that the intake snorkel that sucks air from the inner fender is not the restriction he thought it to be. It is, in fact, a larger diameter than that of the hose that runs from the airbox to the throttle body. (Said hose is larger in diameter at the throttle body, but necks down at the air flow sensor.) Unwilling to replace the hose and upset the air/fuel mixture programming, he thought he might replace the snorkel anyway. A 4 inch diameter solution would be necessary, because the snorkel’s interior diameter is well over 3 inches. No joy, there simply isn’t sufficient surface area to mount a flange for a 4 inch diameter hose on the side of the airbox.</p><p></p><p>What to do, what to do? Examination of the snorkel revealed that it has some rather peculiar interior contours, few of which are conducive of smooth air flow. “Well,” said our creative hero to his jolly self, “I know what to do about that!” No home mechanic should be without a moto-tool. (AKA: Dremel) A little grinding with a sanding drum with the moto tool, a little smoothing with some sandpaper, and some quick polishing with 0000 steel wool resulted in some modest improvements to the interior of the snorkel. One thing led to another, and pretty soon our hero had radiused every piece of intake gear on the truck and it was midnight. He dropped in the K&N filter he had purchased long before taking delivery of the truck and called it a night.</p><p></p><p>Results? Oh, they’ll be quite modest and they are as yet unmeasured. Half of a mile per gallon, maybe, in normal driving? But the more throttle and the more air flow through the system, the greater the effect his modest modifications are likely to have. It’s not a turbo and it’s not a blower, but it doesn’t void the warranty or break the bank. It’ll have to do, ‘cause there ain’t much left in the bank! But what next? When the new bumper guard arrives, our hero will be out in the garage lying on a cold concrete floor testosterone aplenty, wrench in one hand, beer in the other, grinning like madman. </p><p></p><p>God bless America. And God bless THE RAPTOR CHRONICLES!</p><p></p><p>© Copyright 2011, Testosterone Fueled Raptors Are The Bomb.org</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruger, post: 49160, member: 1594"] And now, true believers, another testosterone boiling installment of… THE RAPTOR CHRONICLES! Our hero has been busy. All kinds of new bits and parts have been installed on the new white Raptor in the garage: - RECON Diamond White headlight bulbs - Sylvania Silverstar backup bulbs - Blazer Crystal Rod Lense fog lights - A 17 inch radio antenna - Line-X bed liner in the truck’s bed and rear wheel wells - AquaPel windshield treatment And there’s a N-Fab Tail Runner rear bumper guard on the way. But the real story here is our hero’s glorious plans to modify the factory intake. Alas, those plans will not come to full fruition. He was on the verge, credit card in hand, of ordering the parts he needed last night and then a flash of unaccountably lucid insight assaulted his otherwise placid brain. “I wonder if it’ll work,” he thought. “Maybe I oughta look.” (duh?) Out to the garage he went, and before he knew it he had intake parts all over t he garage floor. Carefully measuring with precision calipers, he discovered that the intake snorkel that sucks air from the inner fender is not the restriction he thought it to be. It is, in fact, a larger diameter than that of the hose that runs from the airbox to the throttle body. (Said hose is larger in diameter at the throttle body, but necks down at the air flow sensor.) Unwilling to replace the hose and upset the air/fuel mixture programming, he thought he might replace the snorkel anyway. A 4 inch diameter solution would be necessary, because the snorkel’s interior diameter is well over 3 inches. No joy, there simply isn’t sufficient surface area to mount a flange for a 4 inch diameter hose on the side of the airbox. What to do, what to do? Examination of the snorkel revealed that it has some rather peculiar interior contours, few of which are conducive of smooth air flow. “Well,” said our creative hero to his jolly self, “I know what to do about that!” No home mechanic should be without a moto-tool. (AKA: Dremel) A little grinding with a sanding drum with the moto tool, a little smoothing with some sandpaper, and some quick polishing with 0000 steel wool resulted in some modest improvements to the interior of the snorkel. One thing led to another, and pretty soon our hero had radiused every piece of intake gear on the truck and it was midnight. He dropped in the K&N filter he had purchased long before taking delivery of the truck and called it a night. Results? Oh, they’ll be quite modest and they are as yet unmeasured. Half of a mile per gallon, maybe, in normal driving? But the more throttle and the more air flow through the system, the greater the effect his modest modifications are likely to have. It’s not a turbo and it’s not a blower, but it doesn’t void the warranty or break the bank. It’ll have to do, ‘cause there ain’t much left in the bank! But what next? When the new bumper guard arrives, our hero will be out in the garage lying on a cold concrete floor testosterone aplenty, wrench in one hand, beer in the other, grinning like madman. God bless America. And God bless THE RAPTOR CHRONICLES! © Copyright 2011, Testosterone Fueled Raptors Are The Bomb.org [/QUOTE]
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