How To Make Your Pentastar Caravan (sound) Awesome in 5 Minutes

The 3.6 Liter Pentastar has a little trick up its sleeve, allowing you to unleash awesome noises with 5 minutes of work! It won’t go like a HEMI but it will sound like one!

[typodontrack]

As a father of 5 who just bought one of these at a buy here pay here... You won me over in the first 30 seconds. Lol

[espy]

I've got a 2019 model and these things have tons of power. I use mine for work but I keep it immaculate. I really wish there were more performance modifications made for this seeing how ubiquitous Grand Caravans are.

[ChuckyCasillas]

Yes, there is remove the spare tire 1. Rip coil packs. 2. 80 mm throttlebody with spacer. 3. Cold Air intake. 4. upper and lower intake, manifold ported out. 5. Diablo tune. 6. muffler and resonator delete. That’s all you can do to it you looking around 370 H.P but with the short gears the van has you’ll hit 0 to 80 so fast before the van dies out the van needs longer gears

[juanvalles]

"Listen to that growl" lol! Sounds awesome!

[CCGtavern]

Just got a 2018 model. I only have one kid but still needed the room for what I do for work. Sold my WRX so it'll be nice having cool sounds again lol

[catfisher]

I'd rather have my minivan over a SUV that has shit cargo space and leg room.

[randyization]

these look great with a single racing stripe down the hood. and pinstripes down the side.

[Sentiothefolf]

i've done this to my 2001 caravan actually! it's right out the fender! I've always straight piped it. i wanna do so much more, but it's a minivan so modding isn't everywhere. :( it's hella fun tho!

[grawey]

Oh Boy! In all seriousness I did figure out how to boost this engines performance, but it is still a minivan. You can only take a corner so fast. It does fly by many mid size cars in straight line performance. I have not met a minivan yet that has kept up with mine. My mod uses all the stock components with a few internal additions. It goes against normal thinking of what a performance intake is. I have done it for a few people to make sure it was a valid mod and it is. Rubber reducers placed in the air stream opposing each other. 3 inch by 2 inch rubber plumbing reducers you can find at your local big box store. One goes in the airbox cap with the reduction facing the filter and the other goes in the resonator attached to the throttle body with the reduction facing into the resonator. The fit is tight and secure. You can just put one in the resonator near the engine and get a boost of performance, but for the full effect you use 2. This creates a low pressure effect in the air stream and increases air flow into the engine. Works for all Dodge Caravans and Town And Country's from 2011 to 2020. I have not looked into the Pacifica's air box setup. I do believe its different. The ability to remove and reinstall the components mentioned is necessary.

[sienile]

I have a piped aluminium intake inletting behind a hollowed out fog light bezel, and a main muffler swapped to a Borla ProXS. My van legitimately sounds like a tuned Infiniti with an exhaust. I race it too. It'll handle V6 Camaros pretty well, and will even squeak out a victory if the ground is flat or downhill.

[thatminivan]

Can you make a video replace the factory air intake box with a cold air intake setup ?

[the_original_skytiger]

I have a 2015 I bought for a campervan. It came with the same engine as the Dodge Challenger that year. They squeeze a few more horsepower out of it for the Challenger, but its still 283 hp in the Caravan. When you punch it, you'd better be hanging on! And that 6 speed tranny shifts instantly. It was a pleasant surprise. I didn't buy it for performance, but I sure enjoy leaving those punk kids with their "hot rods" at the stoplight. lol

[Universal.G]

The same thing can be accomplished by removing the resonator on the down pipe or by removing the down pipe. That way you can keep using the stock box with the emission return hose.

[aleborgo]

Dude that sounds SICK! As far as the cold air intake, you just need to put the filter at the end of the intake duct: instead of removing the accordion tubing, you shoud remove the air filter cover (and air filter) so you still retain the stock piping up to the KN pod filter and drop it in the airbox. I did the same on my Opel Corsa (opposite scale of car but same intake design) and the intake temperature is almost like stock (except when stuck in traffic with no airflow) and sounds way better. It's a win-win basically!
Enjoy sounding awesome!

[brooklynelite]

To be honest I never could understand why minivans like the caravan and the town and country never got hemis hellcats scat packs super bees or any of those performance parts I think if they did I think these minivans would be still around today being made but instead of souping up an SUV like the Durango which to me is pointless SUVS are point less anyways. These vans should have been paid more attention to.

[gavinguidotti]

I clicked on the link for the filter and the website says that the filter is currently out of stock😢 do you know of another filter that is the same size or something else that will work?

[mitchellarias]

I’m 19 and I have one of these, 361, 098 miles should I keep it and mod it or buy another car

[leonhilburn]

Why not pull out the intake box and extend it to make it cold air intake ? You can get pvc that size and make your own. We use to do that back in the day and just spray painted it black to look nice. Home Depot has all the very large pvc for making cold air intake it works great.

[brandonterry]

So I know this 1 year later, but your link no longer has this item in stock? Any other place, or part number?

[mike]

When my Solaras K&N filter started to crack and deteriorate after about 6 years I sent the company some pics and they shipped me a new '00 Solara air filter within a couple weeks. Great company and product. I use the drop in filter in every car the family throws at me. I keep their old paper filters in a library for when I have to do a cleaning and reoil to keep them running when drying. lol Nice hack on the van. Might as well have some fun messing with people heads when around town