I found the correct air box i wanted. i'm going to get a K&N drop in for it.
i had to trim the end to open the hole up and i still need the stock piece that goes into the fender from the SVT i dont know what i did with mine but it should meet up very nice and clean. it barely clears the hood i did have to trim a few things on it but its all in one piece and looks nice. i found a 75mm maf off an old 3.8 minivan that had no center shaft and is made of plastic. i put my sensor in it and it works good. the wires are exposed and there is no "tube' leading to the wires, but after about five miles of driving it adjusted itself back to normal idle, wot, tip in, etc (i have a wideband)
so the plastic 75mm i found is the same size as the pro-flow. I matched that up to the Explorer 4.0 airbox i found the only thing i had to do was take the maf enclosure that is used on the truck and cut a ring off of it to install as a retainer to keep the box from pulling out of the clamp that holds the maf/adaptor to the airbox.
it looks stock but its at least a size bigger. Engine bay sound went way down, which is what i wanted because i have enough sound from my loud a#$ exhaust! the engine bay noise went down so much that it sounds beautiful now. I still need that piece so the air is being pulled 100% from the fender though.
oh and i found a 2004 lightning airbox like i may have mentioned its gonna cost me 40 bucks. i'm gonna do a dyno comparison and maybe mike (CSVT#49) can help me do a "intake test" wiht the airbox style vs. cone filter+maf adaptor vs. Upsized airbox vs. true CAI. if he helped me datalog i could get you differences in IAT, and dyno pulls (i'll have to schedule an hour to do this at the shop, i can't get that much time tomorrow)
