OT: Cold Air Intakes

[Trademark]

I just traded my 2015 f-150 with the 2.7 ecoboost for a 2018 with the 5.0 V8. I loved the ecoboost and hated to get rid of it, but commuting for work was piling on the miles. Being back in a V8 dropped my mileage a bit, but man I forgot how intoxicating that engine sound is.

Anyways, I was wondering if anybody here had any real world experience with aftermarket cold air intakes. Do you recommend it? If so what brand?

 

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[ToddACimer]

I had a Roush cold air intake on my 2011 5.0 and noticed no performance gain or mileage gain from it. If anything it got worse mileage. It also had a horrible drone with my 4" cat back exhaust. If you just like the v8 sound I think the cat back is a better way to get it.

I have an 18 5.0 now and I haven't change the intake or exhaust

 

[Vikes79]

Skip it. There was a time it made sense, but not so much these days.

 

[Glock21user]

I agree with @Vikes79, I have a 2013 F150 with the 5.0 and tried the Roush and Airaid and neither one made enough difference to justify the cost.
In the end I modded the factory airbox by removing the baffle and that did about the same but I can still use a factory filter.
If you are interested in running a programmer call Oz Tuning and talk to Ken Oz directly, great guy and super knowledgeable.
His programs plus a little of this and that really wakes the 5.0 up.

 

[Trademark]

Thanks for the replies!

 

[Alan aka Davinci]

At one time I had a 2011 F-150 that had the 6.2 Raptor motor in it, I put a Jack Roush cold air box on it and a Banks Monster Exhaust. I did get a slight gain in MPG and it seem a bit more power but the mellow throaty sound was all worth it.

 

[Glock21user]

This is a small video of my son's 2018 F150 5.0 with a few small mods.
One of which is a Oz programmer.

 

[JimmyA]

Food for thought, the ecm controls the amount of fuel to amount of air introduced. You may feel like it more powerful, negligible just more fuel to keep AFR correct. Most people get way less fuel economy due to foot control after installing a cold air intake. Most Manufactures have already installed their brand of cold air intake anyways.

 

[HondaRed16]

Performance mods & fuel mileage almost never go together for men...if you have more horsepower...you just have to use it

 

[Sheetmetalfab]

Performance mods & fuel mileage almost never go together for men...if you have more horsepower...you just have to use it

unless you’re talking diesel pickups.
My old 2012 LMM unloaded went from 14 mpg to 22 mpg average with the full delete package, 120 hp efi live tune.

it was still fun driving, just ran out of road quicker.

850 ft lbs is so nice when towing........
Towing 8k the average was 17 mpg after the delete.

 

[HondaRed16]

unless you’re talking diesel pickups.
My old 2012 LMM unloaded went from 14 mpg to 22 mpg average with the full delete package, 120 hp efi live tune.

it was still fun driving, just ran out of road quicker.

850 ft lbs is so nice when towing........
Towing 8k the average was 17 mpg after the delete.

All I've ever had is diesel.
A lot of them.
If you drive exactly the same you may see some fuel savings or increased MPG.
Are you hand calculating at every fill up to get these numbers or going off what the dash is telling you?
These programmers change the dash board information, my experience is most folks go off of that.
My dash board information was always way off than hand calculated.

Yes I agree the mods give you crazy performance.
In short the diesel engines have way more power than the manufactures allow out of the gate do they can meet all federal regulations.
The programmers unlock that.

My point was if you get more horsepower it's natural to want to have your foot in it all of the time simply because you can.

 

[ehart814]

I believe the only situations where a cold air intake is beneficial is if you have done serious modifications that require more air than a stock engine, if the factory intake has baffles of any kind to suppress noise, or if you simply want a loud intake roar when you open the throttle. Most factory intakes on newer vehicles flow very well.

My truck had some sort of baffle (restriction) in the intake between the airbox and turbo. I replaced it with a piece of straight 3" stainless exhaust pipe and it fit right in. Massive increases in HP and TQ!!!!! (no, not really. but i can hear the turbo a little more)

 

[Sheetmetalfab]

All I've ever had is diesel.
A lot of them.
If you drive exactly the same you may see some fuel savings or increased MPG.
Are you hand calculating at every fill up to get these numbers or going off what the dash is telling you?
These programmers change the dash board information, my experience is most folks go off of that.
My dash board information was always way off than hand calculated.

Yes I agree the mods give you crazy performance.
In short the diesel engines have way more power than the manufactures allow out of the gate do they can meet all federal regulations.
The programmers unlock that.

My point was if you get more horsepower it's natural to want to have your foot in it all of the time simply because you can.

hand calculated.

I’m currently driving a 2014 1500 CCSB with a 6.2 gas.

passed the diesel on to one of my employees.