The factory Air intake system on the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 is a very unique and creative design. During testing our engineers placed multiple temperature probes throughout the engine bay and access panels of the Silverado engine bay in order to find the coldest possible air source. Turns out, Chevrolet engineers did a pretty good job of finding a great source of fresh air. Knowing that repositioning the air intake would not be beneficial our team of designers began looking at ways to improve the airflow and find additional benefits. Pretty quickly our team noticed that the path of the airflow was good, but quite disruptive.