Engine Cai Winter Use.

[ursixx]

Hi . New member . Getting a '94 GT automatic, import from Florida. It has long tube headers but stock air intake . want to switch to a CAI but wondering about winter use and the filter sitting in the front wheel well . Any experiences? Recommendations? CAI in the summer and swap back to OEM for the winter?
Thanks!

 

[Mustang5L5]

Do you plan on driving through snow and slush that will spray up into the fenders? If you have a filter in place, it should offer plenty of protection. You'll just soak out the filter.

If you are just driving it around when it's not snowing, I wouldn't worry about it, although the salt/sand mixture on the road is going to be hell on the car, and exhaust in particular. Pay attention to rusting out inner fenders and your exhaust corroding even faster. That would be a bigger concern to me than the air filter.

 

[ursixx]

Yes to everything ,snow , slush salt and sand. that's winter here. Plan on giving it a good once over with POR15 . Also taking off the bumper covers and trunk liners before winter sets in and getting POR15 in those areas.

 

[ursixx]

waiting for this http://www.ebay.com/itm/1994-1995-Mustang-5-0L-Gt-V8-Cold-Air-Intake-Induction-Black-High-Flow-Filter/332260444442?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649 liked that it is black and my intake is red soooo....

 

[revhead347]

The CAI filters do sit well up inside the fender. As long as your plastic inner fenders are in decent shape, you shouldn't get any slush up that high. Whether or not there is any performance gain in a CAI over a better filter in the stock box is yet to be determined.

Kurt

 

[ursixx]

The CAI filters do sit well up inside the fender. As long as your plastic inner fenders are in decent shape, you shouldn't get any slush up that high. Whether or not there is any performance gain in a CAI over a better filter in the stock box is yet to be determined.

Kurt

seems to at least on the modular motors