Modifying intake-do I need these?

[Husky44]

So, resisting modding fever lasted exactly 2 weeks.

Actually, it started while doing routine maintenance (plug change, cleaning the K&N air filter, setting timing). While waiting for the filter to dry, I started looking at better ways to route the air flow tubing. PO installed a KN filtercharger system, with the filter connected to the stock tubing downstream from the MAF. I was looking at trying to run a straight tube from the end of the throttle body to the MAF, with my filter going into the fender at an angle (saw someone else's setup like this on a post on here).

My question: If I take out the stock section of tubing, I'm going to lose the connection for the intake air temp sensor and the PCV hose. Can I run without these? What problems will it cause, if any?

Thanks!

 

[blksn955.o]

Read up here about the home made CAI. I used a 3in length of PCV and some fernco's from HD/lowes/local hardware store.

You can drill a hole and install the AIC sensor as well as get a threaded hose nipple to drill/screw into the PCV for the hose that goes to the oil fill neck. I assume your MAF is already removed from the stock air box. All you do is put one fernco at the t-body end to PCV tube and one from the PCV tube to the MAF.

The best part is you can make it how you want and with some creativity make a decent looking CAI for fairly cheap.

 

[RIO5.0]

The Home boy special...PVC & Fernco fittings...

A 5/8 speed bit makes a perfect hole for the IAT sensor..you can thread it in snuggly...another hole and your good on the oil fill one...Napa or the like will have the vac connectors and the grommet to do up the oil fill..

Here's a better look at how you do up the oil line...you can see the grommet set-up.

 

[BlackVert]

just shut the hood and back away slowly

 

[GTA_V6_Mustang]

just shut the hood and back away slowly

hehe i have to do that sometimes, lol

 

[reddy351]

just shut the hood and back away slowly

I fear that it's a bit too late for that. The bug has bitten and the venom is coursing through the veins, as we speak.

See you in a couple of years, when you are screaming mad and p**sed off because you are having problems with the nitrous fed twin turbo system you've been trying to sort out for over a year. "Maybe I'll go back to N/A. I'm SICK of this damned car!" you'll be saying.

This is how it starts.

 

[Husky44]

I fear that it's a bit too late for that. The bug has bitten and the venom is coursing through the veins, as we speak.

See you in a couple of years, when you are screaming mad and p**sed off because you are having problems with the nitrous fed twin turbo system you've been trying to sort out for over a year. "Maybe I'll go back to N/A. I'm SICK of this damned car!" you'll be saying.

This is how it starts.

Not going there! Honest! I've already got one of those projects--the 67. That's what got me to buy the 95 in the first place. I just couldn't stand another summer with the vert up on jackstands, sitting behind the wheel on a milk crate making "vroom, vroom" noises.

So, I put it back together the way it was set up. I don't think this "filtercharger" setup is all that great, since it's sucking hot air from the engine compartment. But, it's a daily driver, and I don't need it to reach optimum performance. What I got now is more than enough to get me in trouble.

Took it for the mandatory test drive Saturday night after the tuneup was complete. Up the highway, nothing too radical, after two exits, I turned around and headed home, (bet you can see where this one's going...). Hit that isolated stretch where the opposite direction is obscured by trees, and got on it. She's running much better now (not that she was running all that bad to begin with!).

As I'm getting close to my exit, the two sides come back together, but we'd just had a day and a half of solid rain, so no cop's gonna jump the median. Then I see the police Expedition!

So I went home through the neighborhoods, put it in the garage, and let it rest for a day or two...

I'm sure he'll have forgotten about me by the commute tomorrow morning, right? I mean, how many yellow GT verts are there in Alaska?

 

[BlackVert]

I'm sure he'll have forgotten about me by the commute tomorrow morning, right? I mean, how many yellow GT verts are there in Alaska?

i don't think he can pull you over for something he thinks you did a couple of days ago. i mean, doesn't he have to actually catch you in the act?

I just couldn't stand another summer with the vert up on jackstands, sitting behind the wheel on a milk crate making "vroom, vroom" noises.

i had to laugh at this, because my 14 year old daughter was just the other day joking about me doing that in my fairlane. i actually wasn't doing it (i was reconnecting the tach wire), but it was funny that we were joking about that on friday

 

[BlackVert]

Not going there! Honest! I've already got one of those projects--the 67. That's what got me to buy the 95 in the first place. I just couldn't stand another summer with the vert up on jackstands, sitting behind the wheel on a milk crate making "vroom, vroom" noises.

so ... i was just looking at your sig and thinking about a few months ago when you bought the 95 ... how's the "not going there" thing working out?

 

[Husky44]

so ... i was just looking at your sig and thinking about a few months ago when you bought the 95 ... how's the "not going there" thing working out?

It's going reasonably well. I did take the cobra rims off and put my TTIIs on. Oh, yeah, I did that when I swapped the springs, cuz I was tired of catching so much grief on here about the factory lift kit. I found a set of springs on C-list for cheap, and put those on. After plowing all the gravel out of my driveway, I pulled them back off, and ordered a set of Pro-kits. Got the MM cc kit while I was at it.

Ripped out the A/C and smog one weekend.

Waiting until winter to change rear axle bearings--found those needed to be replaced when I was having my alignment done after re-doing the front end. Thinking about a 3.73 swap while I'm at that!

So, believe it or not, that's doing well at "not going there"! Cuz there's a new 8.8 sitting on my workbench, ready to go under the 67, once I finish seam-sealing the body. Then, I've got to install the Cobra brakes on all 4 corners, and find another set of wheels and tires, cuz I stole the TTIIs and put them on the 95!