My New Truck

[Factory Guy]

Originally Posted by hewittca

I'm following along to see how that air intake setup comes together. I have one of those "filter on a tube" intakes and don't really like the look or sound of it as it sucks in air. I also like that frame stiffener for the steering box. I've never seen that before.

Hopefully in the next several weeks i will post up the cold air intake as it is done (just havenÂ’t gotten to posting it.

[Factory Guy]

Ok, on the cold air intake here is what I did. I took the factory Silverado air box (2001-2007). And I just modified it. I took off the outside cold air intakes where the Silverado would get its cold air from. I plugged those as the stock Silverado cold air intake tubes popped right out. I had some old gm plastic parts laying around, so i cut the up to fill these old Silverado cold air intake tubes. Baking soda and SUPER GLUE make a real good filler/glue for this (albeit messy).

If you’re wondering why i just didn’t cut a hole in the rad support. That isn’t going to happen, as my rad support was in perfect condition after 50 years so I am not going to cut it up. So instead i will punch a hole in the aftermarket inner fender liners.

[Factory Guy]

So i just went to my local metal dealer and bought 4” aluminum tubes 24” long. (Didn’t really know how much I needed). I reset the air box in the right front corner of my Squarebody and after a lot of measuring and calculating i took the 4” hole saw and punched a hole in the bottom of the air box. I then used little “L” brackets to mock up where i wanted the tube. The bolts were later removed so air flow would not be restricted.

In the air box and on the outside of the air box any gaps i filled with a silicon type of caulk to make sure only the air outside the engine compartment is getting into this air box.

[Factory Guy]

For some reason this silver tube picture won’t save in the previous file.

[Factory Guy]

Not having much luck uploading photos tonight. Heres a few more.

[Factory Guy]

Here's some more of the air box...

[Factory Guy]

For the intake tube I used standard 4" aluminum tube from the local metal dealer. I scuffed it up real good with a scotch brite pad then painted it with some Duplicolor Truck bed liner. Nothing fancy here.