Help!!! CAI....First Or Thorttle Body???

[Adams2013]

I Have A 13 Ram Express Crew Cab
Bone Stock Except A 14" Magnaflow Muffler
I'm Would Like Your Guys Insight Should I Buy The S&B Or Vararam First
Or The Thorrtle Body??? And Would The Thorttle Body Mess With Warrenty???

Help!!!

 

[BAILEY1]

I would go with the intake first if you cant get throttle body at the same time. As far as which intake...... If you are going to do any off-roading I would suggest the S&B, if not the Vararam. Both are great intakes!!

 

[Casper]

Sucking Too Hard On Too Small A Pipe

I Have A 13 Ram Express Crew Cab
Bone Stock Except A 14" Magnaflow Muffler
I'm Would Like Your Guys Insight Should I Buy The S&B Or Vararam First
Or The Thorrtle Body??? And Would The Thorttle Body Mess With Warrenty???

Help!!!

First a cold air intake (CAI) to make more combustion air available to match your better exhaust flow through the muffler. TB to follow. TB goes from stock 80mm at wide open throttle to 87mm for a 2013. Extra 7mm only begins to apply as you get closer to wide open because of the way this OEM TB has been ported.
You're still at stock 80mm TB flow rates at idle and under lower loads, but material has been removed lower in the opening of the TB to let more air past the flapper under higher demand. This avoids needing a custom tune, and makes the wider TB virtually undetectable to Chrysler (warranty anyone?) unless the tech removes and measures it.
IMHO, if you don't improve the air flow first, you're just sucking harder on too narrow a pipe. Intake first, TB after.

 

[Gunz86]

Like mentioned above Moes uses OEM TB so looks identical to stock and wouldn't be noticed by dealer unless they took intake off and measured. If something goes wrong with vehicle and you have to take in for service it takes a few minutes to remove both intake and TB to return to stock.

 

[Gunz86]

I have not tried the S & B but I am running the VR and would have to recommend because it performs great and looks awesome under the hood. Would look into a catch can as well, I am running the 14" magna with the VR and TB combo and have quite a bit of oil being caught for these three bolt ons.

 

[BlkRamRt]

I would do with the cai first...thats always the 1st mod i always do.

 

[kschaefer426]

id probably go CAI first as well...and no matter which one you go with vararam or s&b the throttle body will be a nice addition after

 

[TRXHemi]

Get the TB and a drop in K&N.... I have a CAI as well, but I think they are somewhat over-rated....

 

[Hemi450hp]

Get the TB and a drop in K&N.... I have a CAI as well, but I think they are somewhat over-rated....

A lot of this has to do with which intake you go with though. Vararam is a top performer because it is the only intake on the market that actually forces air into the motor. S&B is a close 2nd because it has 2 large air scoops bringing in cool air. AEM, Airaid, and K&N are all about the same in design, but they fall a little short on the performance side of things...they do sound good though.

 

[bmoney082]

Can't go wrong with the vararam

 

[Adams2013]

Can't go wrong with the vararam
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Looks Amazing

 

[PX8]

On the Vararam, are the airfilters cleanable? Readily available?

 

[chuck]

I gotta say CAI first as well. I have the Vararam and I absolutely love it. Mine is orange as well. My next mod is gonna be the 87mm throttle body and I can't wait.


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[Oscurida]

i would say CAI 1st even tho i didn't but that's my bad. i went with, 1st 18" Magnaflow, 2nd 85mm TB, 3rd catch can. I'm still thinking about getting the Y pipe 4th being that it's only $35, to kinda get that out of the way. Now i dont know if i should make the VR 4th mod for me.

 

[BlkRamRt]

the first three components to perforance should always be is cai, exhaust and tune.