01-30-2013, 03:40 PM
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Not to take away from LK but facts are facts. The real life gains of CAI's are around 5-10 extra horsepower regardless being car or truck. Your gains come from getting colder air to engine and minimizing the curves of the intake pipe to bring max airflow. Gains around 50 horsepower would come for changing out your exhaust and or getting a tuner.Both pretty expensive, exhaust around $1000+ tuners range from $200 up.
A 1-2 mpg for my truck is huge considering I get 14.5 right now and handling increases,this is all in reference to gas engines only.
You can't compare a diesel to a gas engine they inherently are more fuel efficient in truck applications because they have more torque from the higher compression rate. For that reason CAI's on diesels are not as popular because gains are even less and overall price to do it is higher.
You should go on a mustang forum and deal with people that knows all about the different mustang model years and the design and dynoed their car. If a good filter setup was used and the air flow is designed well on that model year changing out the intake will be a waste.
A 1-2 mpg for my truck is huge considering I get 14.5 right now and handling increases,this is all in reference to gas engines only.
You can't compare a diesel to a gas engine they inherently are more fuel efficient in truck applications because they have more torque from the higher compression rate. For that reason CAI's on diesels are not as popular because gains are even less and overall price to do it is higher.
You should go on a mustang forum and deal with people that knows all about the different mustang model years and the design and dynoed their car. If a good filter setup was used and the air flow is designed well on that model year changing out the intake will be a waste.