1994 Stock Cobra intake decent?

[idro]

I was looking into the trickflow intake/75mmTB/ and C&L inlet tube and MAF, is that a good buy for my car or should i just save my money and buy something else? This winter im yankin the engine out and right now im just buying stuff a little at a time so it wont hit me all at once.

EDIT: RIght now the car only has a mac CAI and stock TB and stock intake.

 

[ga94gt]

If I were you I would have the lower ported by TMoss instead of spending $500 on a new intake. The cobras flow just as well ported as a trick flow or an eldy if not better.

 

[idro]

so the upper intake isnt that bad of a peice? just the lower?

Who is this Tmoss person?

 

[95 svt cobra]

do what you want man, i personally think that the cobra intakes look awesome, esp when they are polished, they just look sweet. And with a porting job it will flow nice. But if you font want to go through the hassle of all that and for a little bit more on price you could get a new intake. either way you really wont need a better intake until you start adding more power. IE blower, turbo w/e cause the cobra intakes are fairly efficient up to 360 hp? i may be wrong but nonetheless they arent bad for minor mods such as you have

 

[idro]

cool thats why i was posting this thread. As far as looks i do want to keep the stock intake cause lets face it it says 5.0 ltr cobra.

Ill just look into getting the lower ported if anything. I do need to trash that mac CAI and stock TB tho. I just didnt know if i needed a new intake w/ my heads im putting on in the winter.

 

[ga94gt]

It will be alot cheaper to get TMoss to port the lower. I believe it will cost about $150 for him to do it. (Much cheaper than a new intake)

Here is his site. He is very well know around the mustang world for porting intakes. http://www.tmossporting.com/ If you are putting new heads on he wiil match the intake ports to match the heads.


Edit: Read this and see what you think http://www.tmossporting.com/tabid/328/Default.aspx

 

[LAFENATU]

The Cobra/GT40 tubular style intake are underrated as far as a street car is concerned. They are both torque monsters.

If your looking for a car that is gonna rev past 6000 RPM though, you need to grab another manifold as the GT40 style will start to choke around 5800 RPM.

-R

 

[idro]

Alright cool thanks for your help ill just send off the lower intake to Tmoss and look into some place that will refinish my upper intake. Im kind of glad i get to keep the stocker. :thumb:

 

[5.Woahhh]

Alright cool thanks for your help ill just send off the lower intake to Tmoss and look into some place that will refinish my upper intake. Im kind of glad i get to keep the stocker. :thumb:

My Cobra lower is getting sent to TMoss, as well. He's a great guy and will answer any and all questions you have. Plus the Cobra upper is the best looking intake. :thumb:

 

[sk8inrj1]

What can be done to the upper to open it up for a larger throttle body? We are talking about a stock 94 cobra intake with the bend right?

 

[5.Woahhh]

What can be done to the upper to open it up for a larger throttle body? We are talking about a stock 94 cobra intake with the bend right?

You can get the inlet tube ported out to fit a 75mm throttle body. TMoss told me he would do mine. Check him out.

 

[ScottyDsntKnow]

The opening in the upper is 70mm that is enough for anything you can really do with a stock block. I'd just get a 70mm and not waste the money on getting the upper ported. I can't say enough about Tom Moss doing your lower though. It might be more than $150 but even if it is, the ported Cobra lower is a MUCH better option than a Edel/TFS/Holley etc.

Tmoss ported a GT40 lower for me and it is tits. His ported lowers flow 250 cfm and the uppers flow more than that in stock form(another reason to not to bother with 75mm). The 250cfm tmoss GT40 intakes will keep up with Twedges/165s/Performers/Systemax etc... heads and the low end with that intake is monstrous. I have the much maligned Edelbrock RPM heads and everyone told me it'd be a pig down low. Well I have a Tmoss ported lower on there and it sure as hell feels strong below 3,000 and it SCREAMS above that up to about 6,500ish.

A great option if you don't want to have to wait for your intake to go out, be ported and come back is to go find an explorer/mountaineer lower(any explorer/mountaineer 5.0 lower works the same with 94/95 cars so don't worry about 1st or 2nd gen or EGR holes or anything like that) and have Tom port that out so you can bolt on and go as soon as you get your car apart. They all flow the same stock and they all flow 250ish cfm when Tom gets done with them. Then sell your OEM lower to recoup some of the money you spent on the explorer lower and portwork.

Tom ported intake happily perched atop some Edels.