Filter Minder Install

this is true. well I don't know what to tell ya man, let us know if you figure it out

 

I figured it out finally. I will recant my statement in an earlier post about this filter minder. It not only works exactly as it was designed to, but it showed me that I had a restriction issue that I wasn’t aware of in the first place. I’m currently working on painting my truck, doing all the work myself...I’m not a damn body man, and my hat is off to you guys who do that for a living. Anyway I finally got around to removing the snorkel and physically looking for a restriction, everything was clear. I’d never paid attention to the factory air intake design until I installed my snorkel. The monkey wrench got tossed into the gearbox when I added the supercharger. The factory air box alone is fairly restricted at the 90 deg turn right behind the fender. Did a little more research into this and figured out that this problem is the whole purpose behind the deck plate mod. I just haven’t found anyone who actually used one of these filter minders to test the flow of the factory air box set up. Anyway without opening up a can of worms trying to figure out how to open the airflow up a lot, the simplest thing to do would be a deck plate mod. Working on heavy equipment introduced me to some different things and a different way of thinking about things. Lots of heavy trucks have a switch in the dash that says “winter” or “snow”. It’s actually a valve or door in the air intake system that redirects airflow from outside the hood, to under the hood in the engine bay to prevent the intake tract from being stopped up with snow. The ford 6.7L actually has this built into the air box without a valve. If anyone has ever serviced one of those trucks, that’s what the whole purpose of the foam air filter on the side of the air box. It’s in a complete separate chamber that will allow airflow to begin there if the one that is routed outside becomes restricted with snow or whatever. Anyway now I’m thinking of a redesigned deck plate mod. I just wanna figure out how to get extra airflow when I want it, but still keep it waterproof with the snorkel in place. The easiest thing to do would be the deck plate mod, but that requires getting out of your truck to take the cap off, or put it back on. I’m thinking of something more user friendly, electronic even. I’ll get there one day.