96 intake trouble

96cobraclone843 · Sep 19, 2009

i cracked my intake manifold a week or two ago.. so i jb welded it(quick fix when your broke) last night i cracked it worse. it left a puddle of coolant under my car.. i cant drive it any where... some one please help me!!! intake manifold for sale???? please let me know asap [email protected] or just send me a message

joekd · Sep 19, 2009

Patching it is a waste of time, time to do the PI manifold swap

96cobraclone843 · Sep 19, 2009

yea thats what i was thinking about but first i need to find one... i found one a while back but it was off a 99+ and i didnt know if there was a match... will it work on my car????

SnakedMark8 · Sep 19, 2009

What he meant by the PI intake swap was to install a PI (Performance Improved) intake. They were introduced on the 99 Mustang and a vast improvement over your stock Non-PI intake. There's a write up as one of the stickys in this form that will give you lots of info on this. Besides the intake giving you some added power the later ones have an aluminum cross over that reduces the chances of a cracked water passage. You still have to deal with the rear (heater nipples), that's where mine cracked.

96cobraclone843 · Sep 19, 2009

yea mine cracked on the plastic cross over a week or two ago and last night the rear heater nipple went.

SnakedMark8 · Sep 19, 2009

You have a choice of either purchasing a kit from several companies or collecting all the parts yourself. The sticky in the forum will give you all the parts you need. I know there are several decent junk yards near you. I used to live in North Charleston and Summerville for about a 17 years.

Tylerdude17 · Sep 19, 2009

i did a pi swap and i have my old one i could sell if you dont want to do that just pm me and i will get back to me or my email is [email protected] just tell me what you can afford and i will see what i can do

96redgt · Sep 19, 2009

You can get a factory replacement unit made by Dorman at advance or autozone. Same thing happened to me, and thats the one i got. It has the aluminum crossover with both sensor locations already in it (instead of only one like the PI units).

SnakedMark8 · Sep 20, 2009

That is an option but at the cost of about 12 hp too. I've only dynoed 2 vehicles with a Dorman and both were down on what I've seen on average. While at a couple training sessions the topic of these intakes came up and also on some of our forums. It was pretty much agreed that everyone seen a loss compared to the stock piece whether it was the non PI or PI replacement. All you really have to do is compare them visually and you can tell the Dorman is just a cheap copy. Like many copies they fall short of the real thing. If you're in a pinch and that's your only choice then yeah, do what you have to do.

joekd · Sep 20, 2009

When I priced it out the PI manifold conversion with all necessary parts buying online it was still cheaper for me then the dorman unit at the local stores

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