Best Cold Air intake

[BlacknRedGT]

hey i was wonder what is the best cold air intake for my 1996 SVT Cobra .... and another question which is better a short ram where the filter is under the hood or a fenderwell intake where the intake is in the fender ......thanks

 

[727 COBRA]

my opinion...don't waste your money on a cai. save a few more bucks and get some gears if you don't have them already

 

[reduceallpain]

A lot of people like the jlt cold air intake..... I have a bbk on my 94 and no complaints

 

[jc95gt]

JLT FTW
thats what i have

 

[uncltrvlnmatt]

Here is a thread on CAI from the DOHC Specific section.

http://sn95forums.com/index.php?topic=1691.0

 

[whty98]

I just bought a JLT CAI. All of them are overpriced but are worth it for the looks. Get one made of plastic and not metal/chrome plated, it won't suffer from heat sink.

I have no idea about fender well, I just got the cheapest JLT. Supposedly you get more power from the RAI intake but I wasn't about to spend about $70 more to find out.

 

[96_SVT_Cobra]

i had the JLT CAI when mine was NA. it worked really good with my 90 mm lightning mass air that i used.

 

[Javi]

All of them, cause none of them actually give you gain in performance. :laughing5:

CAI= for the looks only.


Javi

 

[jmystic]

JLT! Along with an accfab t/b, u/d pulleys, upr x-pipe, magnaflow exhaust and a dyno tune with the x-cal 2 car put down 294rwhp and 283rwtq (96 cobra). I'd personally do the gears first if you haven't all ready (4.10's at least).

 

[NERD]

Ebay Special. Just use a good filter. Or buy what ever you think looks the best.

 

[BMOREstang]

JLT cai is really the only one that is going to give you any type of boost in performance because it makes you get rid of the strut tower brace. However even then the performance gain is very little and you really only feel it up top a little bit. The last thing I have to say about the jlt cai though is that I could have put a supercharger on my car and it would have been less of a hassle IMO lol.

 

[5.Woahhh]

They may make some power but's nothing you are going to feel. I'd go with something other then metal.

 

[linkage13]

I say you just get a Ebay cai, you can get a decent one for under $50. None of them are going to give you noticeable gains anyhow, but it beats a paper filter. Just my .02

 

[Guido]

jlt, or make your own
the most important thing is not having a turn directly infront of the MAF, and having the filter in the fenderwell. I relocated a lot of stuff so I was able to open the hole closer to the strut tower and make my own.

 

[Cobrar96]

just throw the k&N filter and save for gears...no less than 4 10s

 

[tankerman1981]

I got just a K&N in my fenderwall and really no problems whatsoever... really its all about preference and alot about looks

 

[oemracing]

I always am partial to the short ram intakes. you could tell who had a lower than average cai last week here in va- they were the ones along the road with a hydrolocked engine.
But the best for the buck- ebay japanese ones. swap the filter. That is what I ran on a couple of other cars. haha, my first intake was in my 01 tacoma day I bought it, grabbed my buddies extra civic one and fitted it for my truck. worked good for 3 years.

 

[Pennywise2]

I'd go with something other then metal.

Get any intake that is not made of metal.
The metal "hot air" intake's actually rob horsepower because
you are making the intake charge temp hotter so,the computer
will retard timing as needed .All the metal intake tubes will get
very hot in the summer time to the point where you will burn your
hand if you touch it.They are good for looks and that is about it.
Any intake that is made of plastic or pvc pipe will hold a cooler
intake charge temp and will not absorb heat nearly as much as metal.
All the cold air comes from the inside fenderwell.I'd recommend going
with any plastic fenderwell intake(CAI).They will actually make alittle
horsepower that can be felt in the higher rpm's.
The Tunable Induction CAI or the JLT CAI are both good choices
in my opnion.

 

[NERD]

That's milarky. The air isn't in the tube long enough for it to matter. You will NEVER see a CAI dyno test that shows any discernible difference between the two.

I'd go with something other then metal.

Get any intake that is not made of metal.
The metal "hot air" intake's actually rob horsepower because
you are making the intake charge temp hotter so,the computer
will retard timing as needed .All the metal intake tubes will get
very hot in the summer time to the point where you will burn your
hand if you touch it.They are good for looks and that is about it.
Any intake that is made of plastic or pvc pipe will hold a cooler
intake charge temp and will not absorb heat nearly as much as metal.
All the cold air comes from the inside fenderwell.I'd recommend going
with any plastic fenderwell intake(CAI).They will actually make alittle
horsepower that can be felt in the higher rpm's.
The Tunable Induction CAI or the JLT CAI are both good choices
in my opnion.

 

[Pennywise2]

That's milarky. The air isn't in the tube long enough for it to matter. You will NEVER see a CAI dyno test that shows any discernible difference between the two.

I'd go with something other then metal.

Get any intake that is not made of metal.
The metal "hot air" intake's actually rob horsepower because
you are making the intake charge temp hotter so,the computer
will retard timing as needed .All the metal intake tubes will get
very hot in the summer time to the point where you will burn your
hand if you touch it.They are good for looks and that is about it.
Any intake that is made of plastic or pvc pipe will hold a cooler
intake charge temp and will not absorb heat nearly as much as metal.
All the cold air comes from the inside fenderwell.I'd recommend going
with any plastic fenderwell intake(CAI).They will actually make alittle
horsepower that can be felt in the higher rpm's.
The Tunable Induction CAI or the JLT CAI are both good choices
in my opnion.

The air that travels from the cool fenderwell to a hot intake tube will be affected slightly.
Of course however the IAT sensor in the intake tube will discover that the air coming through
the intake is hotter and will inform the PCM so timing values can be changed as necessary.
The difference in performance between the metal and plastic intakes is only a few horsepower.
In my first mustang I had the BBK chrome metal fenderwell intake that I installed on my first
mustang.In the scorchering hot summer my mustang nearly overheated twice after installing
the BBK metal intake.
I then tossed the BBK intake in the garbage can and got a plastic Tunable Induction fenderwell CAI.
After installing it my temperature gauge never went past half way.On nice cooler days it was
always in the middle of quarter and half way.
I liked the Tunable Induction fenderwell CAI so much that I will be getting one for my second mustang too.