Sweet. Picking up my cap and rotor kit from autozone later. Now I just need the coil. Autozone for sure didn't have it and when they checked....even the vendor was out. Just the coil and a timing light away from a little morning project tomorrow....

 

Went to pep boys, they were able to get the coil on order but since its late friday I'll have to wait until next week to pick it up

But I -am- going to go try to find a good toolbox for my bed, want one that fits in the rails. Black, preferably, to match the truck.

I love working on my F150 and buying stuff for it.

 

I think ill put my cap and rotor on tomorrow, and the wires. Then gap the plugs to prepare them for after I get the coil next week. Just gap the new ones, not put them in yet.

 

Well ain't this a little dilemma....I decided to put the cap, rote, and wires on today and save the plugs and coil for next weekend since im waiting for the coil anyway....

and when I go to switch the wire from the coil to the distributor I find that the pin on the coil is snapped and the only thing that's been holding it together is this retaining clip, that is presumably stock, that holds the wire to the coil

Off to get a coil..

 

Well screw it. This is like my personal "this is what I'm doing to my truck" thread. Just gonna keep posting as I work on it, feel free to chime in with advice and whatnot.

Also, I've seen in more than a few places stuff about flipping the air box over and taking off the air inlet that leads to the front. Does this actually do anything? I figure hot air off the engine wouldn't really help much.

 

I've never seen the air box flip done. But if you do it, I would still route a pipe to the front of the grill for cold air. You can always make your own inlet from the grill

 

Would adding another one or making the current one bigger do anything? The purpose given for flipping the box was to remove that duct and basically just have this big open inlet on the airbox. I'm not going to flip it, I was just wondering about the claims of more hp/better performance and better mpg.

 

The way Ive understood it was that a cold air intake produces more horsepower and hot air intake gives Better fuel efficiency but reduces horsepower

 

I don't think bringing hot air in is really beneficial at all. I slightly modified my inlet tube at the grill. It is about an inch to an inch and a half wide right there at the grill, but it had almost a little bend at the end to restrict air coming in. I cut the end open more so air could flow in easier. It's hard to explain but if you look at where it is in your grill it should make sense.

Adding another, or making a bigger inlet should be beneficial. As long as you don't let too much in. Being that yours should be MAF and not a MAP setup, you should be able to change the intake more without having issues. I didn't want to mess with mine too much being its a MAP sensor and isn't quite as open to change. The stock intake on my 4.9 is already a pretty good setup anyway, and the 5.0 has basically the same one I believe.

 

How do you tell the difference between MAP and MAF? I honestly don't know.