1997 Dodge Ram 3500 Air Intake

Airflow restrictions are something you don't want anywhere on your engine. Incoming air? Exhaust gases? It doesn't matter. One of the first things you want to do to your diesel is free up any spot that blocks the air's path. One great way to achieve this is by installing a cold-air-intake kit. Also, most stock airboxes have a restrictive intake silencer used to cut down on any turbo noise that could annoy passengers. We didn't want silence-we wanted turbo noise! We also didn't want any restriction, so we decided to get a cold-air-intake kit from S&B Filters to install on our '97 Ram 3500 truck.

S&B's cold-air-intake kits are available for Chevy, Dodge, and Ford applications and are said to flow 27-54 percent more air than your stock airbox and air filter (depending on application). The kit will also stop 99 percent of dirt in the process. While your stock air filter uses a paper element to stop dirt, S&B kits have a pre-oiled, eight-layer filter that dramatically increases flow. To round out the cold-air kit, a custom high-volume airbox and an intake tube are also included, as well as all the necessary hardware.