Frankentake IV is Finally Here... OMG and WTF!

[street hooligan]

i plan on building one and trying it out.

[Jaak]

Wow, does that ever look like the one in my sig pic.. Without the bend. And a heck of a lot cheaper!!! Sweet way to do it!

[Carfinish]

awesome work once again Matt...that looks really good.

[MattRobertson]

Wow, does that ever look like the one in my sig pic.. Without the bend. And a heck of a lot cheaper!!! Sweet way to do it!

Looks like you have a Frankentake III with a smaller filter. What is that? I know a guy on EBay is selling FIII knockoffs and saying they have an MSRP of like $279 but he's selling them for a mere $179 or something like that.



That same guy, if you look at his pics, is fudging the gas recirc hose. Has it pointing down to the ground and I guess hopes nobody notices.

and after all these months that coated intake manifold is still looking good...i like that titanium color we did it on...

It still looks like it was brand-new. And it still stays cooler than any other metal intake on the planet.

[Jaak]

Actually Matt, it's the 6.1 Mopar intake with a larger filter on it, the same size as what you're showing, but it's cut off out of picture.

The elbow you're using that goes to 4 inches, is exactly what the 6.1 Mopar intake does, and goes in to 4 inch aluminum pipe. But I've changed mine yet again, so I can use the divider on it, but with yet another filter that's different.

Considering how well the Mopar intake has worked for me, if I was to start all over from scratch, I'd put together a system like you've done. It's been a good performer for me, and yours cost a heck of a lot less for basically the same thing.

[Jaak]

Thanks for the links Matt, I've ordered another elbow (so I can make some changes to my mopar one) and ordered clamps to upgrade it as well...

[MattRobertson]

Actually Matt, it's the 6.1 Mopar intake with a larger filter on it, the same size as what you're showing, but it's cut off out of picture.

Whaddya know. I thought they used the same intake for both. Is it the same cheap Chinese rubber elbow?

[concussion]

I think this one is gonna go on.

Too good of a deal.

Great work Matt, I was considering the FIII but this is even better.

Cheers,
Burleson

[Jaak]

Whaddya know. I thought they used the same intake for both. Is it the same cheap Chinese rubber elbow?

Won't know for sure until I get it, but I suspect so!

The 5.7 is a smaller tube and bends to meet the TB. The 6.1 version is so like what you've created, it's funny...

[Jaak]

I'll steal some pictures from this thread....

F/s MOPAR CAI Like New





I'll have to take a picture of the filter I've chosen from K&N and the end that comes on the mopar intake. They don't use a 4 inch filter, they have an adapter that is curved for better air flow in from the filter. You can see in the first picture the clamp on the filter. I forget how big it is, but I'll try and get more pictures later today. It was the stock configuration, however, that I got my 11 second runs with (with the stock SRT cat back) by holding the car in third at the end of the 1/4 and letting the revs climb past the shift point. So it breathes fine...

[MattRobertson]

Its not the same elbow. Looks like the Mopar one is shorter on the 4" side. Not sure which I like better as the 'bigger' elbow allows fudging on the fitment (just stuff more tube down inside), although with F4 I measured stuff out so you didn't need to do that. I don't see an IAT hole but I assume they drilled the elbow. I'm guessing the connector to the filter is a velocity stack. The S&B filters have a mini one of those built into their plastic flange so I have never been too upset about not using a separate one, although I am curious as to whether the full-on stack I noted earlier from Spectre, along with the original 6x9 filter Meister found for us all, would work better. I'm kinda pissed I threw out my original... but I had so many intake parts they took up an entire rack shelf in my garage. Never thought I would go back to it.

[gooeytek]

Hey Matt, I'm using the silicone 90-degree reducing elbow from frozenboost http://www.frozenboost.com/product_info.php?cPath=214&products_id=394&osCsid= fe51f0cbea8bb6a98071559d9cc4a1fa

probably the same as the one from siliconeintakes. It's a pretty good piece, compared to the rubber one from intakehoses which I also have, except that it's a pretty tight fit on the 4" side when fitting the 4" tube. Works well though, and you can get it in blue, black, or red.

[MattRobertson]

Yeah frozenboost.com and siliconeintakes.com are exactly the same company. The picture that frozenboost uses (the orange one watermarked "siliconeintakes.com" :-) ) is actually of a straight 90. The one at siliconeintakes.com (the blue one) is of the actual reducer. But they are the same product, design, price etc.



I really came very close to buying this, but I was concerned about what would happen if I drilled into it for the IAT. I *know* how the rubber elbow behaves but drilling into silicone is an unknown to me. It seems like a *killer* deal - a silicone elbow for $19.99, and thats the site that sells t-bolt clamps for the lowest price on the web. A good place to get a combined shipping deal.

What did you do about the IAT? You drilled the elbow? Can you show us how it fit installed?

[monty1269]

Matt- you se this yet?:

RDP style intake for under 100 bux shipped......

[Jaak]

Well, I've ordered one of those elbows and clamps, so I'll be able to put them side by side to compare. The pictures above, don't really give a good view of the elbow I think....

I want to continue using the Mopar divider, so I'll be shifting my tube over an inch so I can fit in a different filter.

Here's some pics in case they're useful to anyone. This isn't seated against the tube, so you can see a gap. Normally it's flush.





Dirty OEM Mopar filter on top.. (With K&N Lube) What I ran my 11.98 with.

What I'm replacing it with, on the bottom. (Really ugly pine wall behind. I'm ripping that out, the whole room is done in it and I hate it. Anyone want to take it away? LOL)