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When looking for a place to begin adding performance upgrades for your late-model truck, the obvious choice is a cold air intake system. Installing an aftermarket air intake system on your truck is a relatively simple procedure. It's also a beneficial upgrade for several reasons:

Capping off the short block is a ported, polished and shaved custom cylinder head, fitted with a Banks Big Hoss sidedraft intake, which is fed via an aFe Stage II intake setup. A S-300-74-71 Industrial Injection turbo fitted with a Hytec stainless steel turbine provides 55+ psi of boost.

SpeedFactory offers an impressive line-up of Dodge Challenger SRT8 tuner musclecars. Starting with the Stage 1 model outfitted with a cold-air intake system all the way up to the Stage 6 model, which features a massive supercharger capable of pumping out 1,000 horses and transforming the SRT8 into a big bad powerhouse of pure delight!.

Prestige rolled-out their latest Prestige Range Rover Sport that goes with a front bumper which is redesigned to boast additional air intake

Every hot rodder's first project starts long before they actually acquire the car, and in almost all cases includes a laundry list of parts that will make their project go quicker and faster. In most cases, brakes are way down the list. In the early '90s, a friend of ours had just gotten a '65 GTO that was a great-running 389 four-barrel, four-speed car, and instead of making it stop, decided a new Edelbrock Torker intake and Holley carb were just what the doctor ordered.

CGS Performance Products, based in Chino, California, is best known for its stainless steel exhausts and cold air intake systems, but for more years than we can remember, CGS has been building custom vehicles for the annual SEMA show. The crew has built cars, trucks, SUVs and everything that is the "latest and greatest" from the OEMs.

Take an exclusive look at this tech spotlight that will be featured in the May issue of Street Trucks mag! Be sure to check back for the remaining parts of this story.

Here's the second part of our exclusive tech spotlight featured in the May issue of Street Trucks mag! Make sure you catch up on Part 1 first! Rather than building on what GM had started, FAST engineers started by building computer models that would accurately represent the stock manifolds in digital form.

It's pretty common that the first performance upgrades diesel owners make to their trucks are in the form of a cold air intake, high-flow exhaust system and performance programming of some kind. While these three modifications can really breathe new life into a truck, the weak link in the chair with all this newfound power becomes the transmission.