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Old 03-19-2014, 09:45 PM   #11 (permalink)
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nice

looks clean! I am experimenting now to see what kind of results it gets, but plan on doing something similar... looks a lot cleaner than mine!

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Old 03-20-2014, 02:59 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 03-20-2014, 08:17 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Any difference with the air dam? Looks good!
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Old 03-20-2014, 08:48 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Honestly I don't know. I want to say yes but the truck has a fuel leak near the top of the tank, ( I suspect a bad filler gasket)so for safety reasons I do not fill it all the way up. It has a couple other mechanical issues so my driving of it is reserved for icky 4x4 type days.
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Old 03-20-2014, 10:51 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Old 03-20-2014, 07:58 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Old 03-22-2014, 10:52 PM   #17 (permalink)
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First 4 hour road trip, odometer test results, 22 mpg, that's better than my average top 20 mpg... I have to do the same 3 hour round trip tomorrow so I can get another test in. Wish I had the $ for a scan gauge right now! I fill up at the same pump at the same station so hopefully fairly accurate. Almost all highway at 65mph, cruise control almost the whole run. Lots of cross wind today.
Next up is the side skirts!
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Old 03-23-2014, 02:52 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Hate to be a hater but a cold air intake on a ranger is useless unless your idling. The scangauge shows intake temps are always equal to ambient temps above 3mph in a stock ranger intake. However I would have done it out of boredome.
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Old 03-23-2014, 04:00 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Caveman, thanks and your probably right... It's also somewhat of a ram air system... But probably only helps at WOT. I plan on attempting to heat the air at the air box in the future, main reason I piped it in. And it does sound decent when you floor it! Not that I ever do of course!
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Old 03-23-2014, 04:01 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Also 2nd tank confirming 10% increase!

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