Cold air Kits

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Wherever you decide to buy I would recommend going with the K & N kits. You can easily install them with just a few common tools and common sense. Just make sure that you specify your year and engine size and you'll get the correct fit.

Should you need to do any modifications for installing they will be very minor, such as relocating bolts, using washers to make up gap spaces, slightly adjusting angles on wiring or hoses etc. A friend installed one on his Ranger pickup but it wasn't the exact model he needed. (Got it cheap from a friend who wrecked the car before he installed it) All we had to do was cut a small notch in the plate behind the filter to allow a hard line to pass and make an "L" bracket to allow mounting. Only took about an hour including all the modifications/fabricating.

If you have the correct model it should take you about 35 minutes to install.

These little gems do the same thing for modern engines as velocity stacks did for carbureted V 8's. Cooler air is more dense and so you get a better bang for the buck when each cylinder fires.

Depending on exactly where the far end of the intake system ends up, another plus would be to add ducting which would allow the intake point to be more to the front of the vehicle and preferably clear to the grille or outside the engine compartment. Remember Ram Air? This lets "cleaner" and cooler air get to the engine. I have installed "backyard systems" utilizing dryer hoses and even multiple vaccuum cleaner hoses to get this effect without cutting the hood and installing a scoop.

But that would be something to do only if you wanted to eke out every last drop of performance you could get.

OK so yesterday we passed by this lot where every Thursday in the summer, some local car club parks and gathers for the sake of it. There were more Mustangs than other vehicles there and one guy had a newer model we were looking at. All the older ones were restored to original and one had ALL original parts with the exception of wires, belts and hoses. Not all shiny, but defo original.

Anyway, ALL the new ones had cold air kits and we were chatting with one guy - well the only one near his car - about the cold air. He mentioned something about adding "the chip" along with the kit. WTF is this "chip" and what does it do?

Now Matt's working with more $$ coming in, I would like to get that kit once things get cozy for us. I was told he gets about 60 more horses with the kit and chip combo. He said he never checked if he gets better gas mileage though. It's said that you do with the cold air and that would be a help. This thing gets less than the truck! I'll eat up half a tank of gas on that 80 mile (both ways combined) run taking him to work.

FYI - all the air kits vented to the left side, top of the engine compartment pointing to the driver side wheel. I didn't see any of them with the intake underneath toward the outside to grab bigger gulps of air. I honestly don't see any room in the compartment to do it that way.