not sure how to word the title properly, sorry...

but anyways I was wondering who was running a stock intake with the intake tube baffles taken out or replaced with either a torque tube, one of them stainless tubes genosgarage.com sells, or one someone made, and with silencer rings taken out. oh and with stock muffler/exhaust. i was wondering what kind of whistle you all hear with the mods to the intake tube and silencer ring gone? will i get a nice/noticeable whistle with just these mods? i don't know if i wanna spend 50-80$ for an intake tube replacement for not much sound difference, but if there is deffinately a big difference mainly outside the truck then i'm all about it... Thanks to anyone that responds

oh and would love to hear from someone with same type truck i have... 04.5 or 05 with auto...

Eric

 

Eric, I have the exact setup you are asking about. I purchased a piece of stainless exhaust tubing to replace the straight piece with the plastic baffles in it, then I removed the plastic baffles from the 90 degree elbow and removed the silencer ring from the turbo. The sound is quite a bit louder from inside and outside the truck, but not obnoxious. I think most of it comes from the resonance of the metal tubing. I like the sound, not too loud for me or the family, and like the fact that I still have the stock air filtering in place.....Robert

 

thanks for the reply, do you think i should get the MPC kit from genos for 50$ or where did you get the stainless exhaust tubeing? it had to be cheaper than 50$

 

I actually purchased the tube from someone on Ebay, and I was pleased with the quality and shipping speed.

If you do a search using "2003-05 Dodge Cummins Air Inlet tube from B&L" you will see he has 3 of them on there now. Only difference from the picture is mine was painted black, not like the one in the picture. I actually decided I liked the black better because you don't even notice it on there. On second look, I guess it isn't stainless, but not sure how much that matters.

I did almost purchase the one from Geno's, but went the cheaper way.

 

I have also seen a post with a link to this piece here, but it was after I purchased mine. It is cheaper though, and looks like it would work/sound the same....Robert

http://shop.airflowonline.com/Mercha...tegory_Code=IT

 

awesome, thank you very much!

 

Horsehauler,

I got my replacement tube from my local big rig shop, just call around and see if they have some 5.5" aluminum intake tubing. I think I paid 13 or 14 bucks for the 18" I got, don't think you need that much, 1 foot should do you. Just take out the plastic 'apple slicer' and measure end to end and cut you tubing to length. Polish or paint to your liking.

HTH,

 

good call, would big rig shops only carry it most likely or would i have a chance of finding some at a local lets say muffler shop.... ???

 

How about a piece of pvc pipe?

 

I tried a piece of PVC first, but didn't get the resonance or "ringing" that you get with the metal tubing. I would think the airflow would be just as good though, and you aren't transfering the heat with PVC if that makes any difference...Robert

 

i took the oem tube baffles out and i feel like it helped the air flow there is not an increse in noise imo

 

Does anyone know where (locally) i could get some 5.5" OD aluminum intake tubing other than a big rig shop? would a muffler place have any? home improvement stores, auto part stores etc etc...??? thanks all