K&N Cold Air Intake System: High-Flow Air Filter, Increase Performance & Towing: Compatible with 1996-2000 (C2500 & SELECT MODELS), 57-3013-2

I’ve always been a decent fan of K&N. I recently ordered a new K&N intake for my older 98 GMC Sierra. Installation was not nearly as bad as people were complaining about, and everything fit perfectly. This really opened up my little 5.0l motor. I definitely recommend K&N intakes and filters!

What a pain in the bleep to install. For what you pay for it, the fitment and quality of the product is absolutely frustrating. The directions are fantastic. I’ll give them that. Am i a mechanic? Absolutely not. I’m a handyma’am at best. But I’ve taken to enjoy working on restoring our 99 Tahoe 2 door. The rigidity of the tube and grand size of the box make for a very hard piece to install. You get one part in place, move to the next step and the last part pops off. I ended up tightening the filter on last as i was able to manipulate the box to slide the arm into place (once i finally got that part tightened enough).That being said, once we got it on and drove it, we definitely heard an improvement. It’s louder and you can feel it’s more responsive, a little more power.

One thing I’ve learned about this cold air intake for the GMT 400. The plastic tube is not truly bent. It’s not truly round at the base going towards the throttlebody. It’s pretty much Chinese made garbage not worth $350. You could buy the filter by itself and by aftermarket aluminum tubing to work better and cheaper

Ordered and installed this CAI in my 99 Suburban K1500 with a 5.7 liter with 249000 miles on it.. After prepping the box it took just under an hour to install. Took it out for a test drive getting onto the freeway. The throttle response was a big improvement. Driving at 70 mph and just stepping on it a little more you can hear the cool throaty noise and it just jumped right up to almost 80 mph instantly. So impressed so far with this setup. Would highly recommend this to anyone needing new life to an engine.

It sounds great in the air Flow is amazing. But it slips off every time you want to leave the house.

Works great and makes a noticeable difference in acceleration / passing. A few complaints are the air filter box doesn’t mount very solid. Had to add extra bolts to make it solid. The air filter doesn’t have a strong connection on the end of the mass airflow adapter. Took some plastic pipe and put it inside of the rubber adapter so the filter could tighten down properly. Lastly some of the metal bands used to hold everything together felt cheap and didn’t tighten very well. Used some off of the old intake and it’s solid now. Overall a great product that is worth the performance difference but be ready to do some extra shoring up to make it solid.

A bit more power, good fitment.

Perfect fit on my 1996 C1500 Suburban. Increased throttle response and added very little additional noise from the engine compartment. Amazon had the best price and shipping. I live in Hawaii and it was way cheaper to purchase at Amazon then on the economy, add in free shipping at it's even better!