Bullitt Air Silencer

[Bullitt00606]

Do Bullitts have different air silencers or is it a 2001 and up thing?

I finally decided to try removing-the-silencer mod and according to my research, it looks like a slanted funnel.

when i pulled out mine, it looked like an accordion-style tube thats deep into the fenderewall which was hose-clamped into a small funnel-shaped rubber thing.

i assumed the small funnel thing was my silencer, but ive never seen mustangs with the accordion thing before....HELP

Also, when i remove it, will there be a space between the filter cover and fenderwall? if so, won't that suck hot air in?

 

[sgarlic]

http://www.bullittarchive.com/3001.htm

There's a clear picture of it in, 4 pictures down.

Yea there will be a gap between your airbox and the fenderwell, but it won't really be sucking in hot air.. the hope is the air it draws will mostly still be from the fenderwell.

 

[GT-03]

Yea there will be a gap between your airbox and the fenderwell, but it won't really be sucking in hot air.. the hope is the air it draws will mostly still be from the fenderwell.

This is one aspect that I can't understand. With the silencer tube, you are guaranteed that 100% of the air, will be cool air from the fenderwell. Why it is an improvement to go from a 100% guarantee, to simply hoping that the air will still mostly come from the fenderwell?

BTW, I do know that even though the air box is the same between the GT and the Cobra, the Cobra has a much, much larger (diameter wise) silencer tube than the GT.

 

[john_324]

This is one aspect that I can't understand. With the silencer tube, you are guaranteed that 100% of the air, will be cool air from the fenderwell. Why it is an improvement to go from a 100% guarantee, to simply hoping that the air will still mostly come from the fenderwell?

That's the dilemma...removing the silencer gives one a larger aperture through which to draw air, but it could well be hotter air.

So the question becomes: is more but hotter air better than less but cooler air? There are partisans on both sides...

Some spilt the difference...they leave the silencer in, but trim the end of it so that while it still extends into the fenderwell, it has a bigger aperture through which to draw the cooler air in the fenderwell...

 

[scupking]

Think of it this way, if you buy an after market kit, most of them are open to the engine bay. So the engine will be sucking in even hotter air then if you just removed the airsilencer.