I‘m looking for a cheap cold air intake for my 88 Silverado with a 350 tbi engine. Should I get the open type that sits on the carb or the tube style intake? I liked the sound and acceleration of the tube intake on my Town Car but I‘ve never heard or driven a car or truck with the open type. (Please don‘t tell me I‘m wasting my money, I just want to see what everyone else prefers.) Thanks.
KN intakes are industry standard, I'd say tube style.
See if AFE offers a kit for your truck, price is usually lower than KN and works just as well
well i have a 98 K1500 silverado with the KN air intake kit, its the tube style that goes from the throttle body which sits where a carb would right on top of the intake manifold, and it goes to where the stock box would be, i love it, gives a better deeper sound when hauling a** but same sound when idling or just cruising, also it gave it better acceleration but also that could have been the true dual flowmaster exhaust working with it, if you have stock exhaust your acceleration might not feel much different unless you have a lot better exhaust, also just to point out, i had the exhaust on my truck before i installed the intake kit so it was the intake kit by itself that helped on acceleration, just my point is if it has stock exhaust then an air intake kit probably won't help to much for acceleration, think of an engine like a person, it has to breath in and out, if you breath in more air you have to get the air out just as fast, if you breath in a lot more ait but still slow you won't breath to good, thats like an engine with an air intake kit but with stock exhaust, hope that makes sense, also a tube style intake kit will help the hot air from the engine compartment go in the engine, the box around the fitler helps that, the open type that just screws on top of the carb will let the hot air from the exhaust get in the engine which isn't as good, i know on hot days its still going to be hot air going into the engine but it won't be as hot of air, so either way the air going into the engine on a tube intake kit won't be as hot, might not affect it enough to notice though on a hot day
