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whats the best way to make a cold air intake for a carb engine?

i have a 66 chevy truck with a 350 in it is there any way to make a cold air intake for it

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No vehicle sold in the US has anything other than cold air intake, and has since the 80's, so yes, cold air works. I mean come on, we are talking straight 6 cylinders in 6000lb trucks that had factory cold air intake. This is cold air from outside of the vehicle, not the cheap rice rocket garbage foisted on people, that simply puts a colorful air filter that sucks in wonderful hot underhood air. I believe the rough number is 1HP difference for every 10* decrease in inlet air temperature. Not likely to make much of a difference, but it's there. It gets hot underhood. Is it a huge gain? No. On your truck is it worth the hassle? No. If you have a carburetor that will accept the air cleaner off of the 1980's chevrolet trucks, an approximately 8 tall air cleaner housing/filter was quite commonly used on the 1981-1987 GM full size trucks. Get one, flip the lid over, and call it good. You'll never starve the engine of air. The early air cleaners had extremely small snorkels which helped to reduce noise, but did nothing for performance.
for what/just take the air cleaner off/thats as cold as it gets/cant believe you believe that sewer pipe bull pappy/no known test have shown those pipes do anything except cost gas miles/take longer for engine to warm so efi keeps the mixture richer/you dont have efi/if it makes you happy go to home depot and get some plastic pipes and go for it

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