K&N filter, drop in or whole set up?
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painterpatt
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I have the Airaid on my Flex, sounds cool but the rubber gasket is a joke, not even close to the bottom of hood. My intake air temp will climb from 100 to 155/60 just sitting in staging. seriously thinking about ditching it and modding stock airbox but with a non oiled filter. Turbos pull WAY more air thru filter and will suck oil out of it. I thought I read somewhere about Ford voiding turbo warranty because oil gums up turbos?
Here is the modified air box I did. Someone else did it too on his MKS, used PVC pipe, but I used 3" intake flex pipe. It was very tight under the left front head light assembly, that's why I used the flex pipe. Going to order a Frogzskin breathable filter to help keep out bugs and other big debris. Frogzskin is used on newer snowmobiles too keep out snow and snowdust.
painterpatt
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I switched back to my stock intake and went to track. No change in time but IA temps were 20/30 deg cooler sitting in staging. Put Airaid back in tho, Just not the same without the massive noise fluff lol. I also cut the bottom corner near fender opening off Airaid box, Pulled both rubber gaskets off hood, and one off top of wiper cowl so air goes thru underhood. cut back of grille out so now you can see air cleaner thru grill, and I left off that massive shield under motor. stays alot cooler now. Need all I can get in Florida. I think I'm going to cut a slot in core support cover and bend a piece of metal at a 90 so I can block the grille opening back off when it rains like hell down here.
southtxSHO
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Night Hawk said:
Got mine last week
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painterpatt
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Looks just like my Roush/Airaid
Livernois Motorsports
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I recommend our Windstorm line of CAI. We have seen gains of up to 15 HP. Unfortunately with our testing we did not see much of a gain over the stock intake with the K&N CAI.
I assume this is for the 2010-12 SHO? (That is the only application a search pulled up on your website.) What are the requirements to achieve these gains with the Windstorm CAI (tune/fuel/exhaust, etc for example)? Are the dyno sheets publicly available? TIA.Livernois Motorsports said:
SHOdded said:
This is a Re Branded AirAid CAI .. curious as to whether LMS's buying power will result in a lower price than what the AirAid sells for elsewhere .
That would be a good thing .
Even though many don't like the design it is still popular and MANY of us use it.
I still have mine .
panther427
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That would be a good thing for sure.
Cool name you guys choose. I like it
Cool name you guys choose. I like it
At this point, I'm skeptical of any CAI with the car in stock form.
However, I'm keeping an open mind and would like to see some data of a CAI on a modded car.
My plan is to slap my k&n on after the bolt ins and tune are in and re-dyno back to back.
That's actually the only reason I haven't sold it or turned it into garage art.(At least it's pretty, lol.)
However, I'm keeping an open mind and would like to see some data of a CAI on a modded car.
My plan is to slap my k&n on after the bolt ins and tune are in and re-dyno back to back.
That's actually the only reason I haven't sold it or turned it into garage art.(At least it's pretty, lol.)
I ran against a friend of mine this past Friday at the track, both 2013's and identical mods except he has a CAI and I have a drop in K&N. Every time we lined up against each other he was .01-.03 faster than me. He also has the Flower wheels and mine came with the 19's so that is a small difference too. Same cool down time and everything, so that make me think the CAI does add a little to you car.
navbtcret said:
A different finding than most have reported.... warrants a bit of analysis I think.
Do you have the timeslips you could post? Interesting to see them I think. The main variable not controlled is primarily the driver if both cars are either PP or non-PP. I wonder if the drop-in is the problem....
Other member tests were same driver, same car, different runs (back-to-back) with AM CAI vs completely stock intake... 4DR and bamsho found stock faster in their trial conducted this way.
Removing the entire filter box (saxophone only open intake) vs stock showed no difference on the dyno in my '13 SHO nonPP... but of course that's not "real world"
