Question from the new gal

Mustang5L5 said:

I wish i had time. I'm just so busy with work and school and socializing that installing stainless steel inserts on my '03 is about the biggest mod i've done in months. Meanwhile you go in my garage and there's a t-5 90% rebuilt for my '88 and a 306 75% built for my '85. Not to mention the STACK of parts i have sitting that have no been installed yet. I just have zero time these days.

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I can partly understand this and in fact since I'm married with a 2 year old son Heck it was my wife that told me to start working on the SVO since I have a ton of crap stack up for my cars in the garage. The stuff for the LX with proubly set there until next year since the SVO probly want get done until school starts. Then to top all of that off me and a friend is starting a business that I hope to have running by the end of the year

As has been said before the very simplest modification you can do to your car that will see some gain in power is to replace the air intake. This is not for cold air induction purposes, as the stock setup is already a CAI. (Air is drawn from ahead of the radiator on the 2.3 and from the fenderwell on the 5.0) Rather, you want something that is less restrictive to air trying to get to the motor. The problems with the factory intake is that the air opening is very small, the air passes through a POS box that has some environmentalist deal that can blend in HOT air (not good), and there is an intake muffler (black retarded thing that says Ford on top).

If you want to do this. First get on ebay and/or stangnet classifieds and find a stock 5.0 Mustang airbox that someone is trying to sell. (The box that takes in air and houses the filter) Pay about 10-15 plus shipping. Go to an autoparts store and get a replacement paper air filter for a 1987-93 Mustang with the 5.0, and put that in your "new" box. Next go to your hardware store and find a bit of PVC pipe, 3 inch inside diameter, about 2 feet long. Or a bit of scrap you have laying around. (You may want to paint it or get the black colored one) Also get two hose clamps that will go around a 3-1/2" hose. Finally, this peice will be hard to find... go to a local heavy duty truck dealer (Mack, Navistar International, Peterbilt, etc.) and ask for a 45 degree rubber elbow that is 3-1/2" inside diameter.

When you have all your parts, gather up a small metric socket set and a hacksaw and a screwdriver and a fire extinguisher (kidding). Pop the hood and prop it up. To the passenger side, near the radiator, you see the black airbox and a short black hose and the intake muffler that says Ford and another short black hose, which attaches to the throttle body on the top of the engine. First, loosen the hose clamp that attaches the first hose to the airbox, and pull the hose off there. Loosen the clamp between the second hose and the intake muffler, so you can remove the muffler and first hose from the car. There should be a small (about half an inch across) hose to the top of the airbox; yank that off and find something to plug it with. Find the bolts that hold the airbox to the car, and remove the air filter box. Yank off that hose that goes to the exhaust, also. The last item to remove is the metal bracket that holds the airbox to the side of the engine bay, then you are ready for installation. On your 5.0 airbox there are two rubber feet that will point down into the groove underneath where your old box was. The oval hole goes against the pre-existing oval hole in the side of the engine bay. At the top should be two rubber mounts that you screw into the appropriate holes on either side of the oval cutout in your car, then the box goes in and 2 nuts secure it to the mounts. IF you did not get these mounts, you will have to use the ones on your old box and find some washers to space the airbox the proper distance from the side of the engine bay. Otherwise, it is a direct bolt in. Now get your 45 degree rubber elbow and fit it over the outlet of your 5.0 airbox, pointing to the other hose that should still be attached to the throttle body. Slip the 2 hose clamps over that but don't tighten them yet. Lay your bit of PVC pipe over the hoses and mark off how much you need to get about 2 inches of each end inside the hoses. Cut with hacksaw, and remove the resulting plastic burrs so they don't mess up airflow or get sucked into the engine. Insert the pipe into the hoses, and tighten the 3 loose clamps. The pipe will fit loosely in the hoses, but you will be able to tighten the clamps enough to seal it up. Shut the hood. Done.

sorry this is so long but of course since you are FEMALE I have the irresistible urge to show off.

itsgreat2bme said:

Well I was planning originally to start fresh with an 05 GT
And in the meantime just learn the car basics, but then Dr. Elusive mentioned this board to me, and then got to thinking . . . and well now I really can't decide which would be the better investment

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If you want to talk V8s go with a 03-04' Cobra. OMG these cars are probly the best cars Ford has put out in years. They come stock with about 360rwhp and about as much work is envovled in a tune up plus 650 bux you can make it 427rwhp They come stock with fordged internnals which can with stand atleast 500 hp stock These cars will be killing 05' GT for a long time to come and with no Cobra until like 06' the 05'GTs has no one to take up for them

**rwhp = means rear wheel Horse power**
The most comon way people measure hp is on a chassis dyno where the rear wheels spins rollers that measure performance. The other way is on a engine stand which that reading is called fly wheel hp.

***Fordged internnals = a method of making parts by forceing them into shape.***
The other more cheap comon way is casting. This way they melt the material and poure it into a mold.

itsgreat2bme said:

I feel bad getting all this help without returning advice, so if anyone has a biology or improv related question, feel free to ask

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Where was you when I was failling A&P Stick around I plan to retake it this fall

itsgreat2bme said:

What is A & P?

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Anatomy and phisology

Its some cool stuff on the relationship between the fuction of the body and structure of it Its like Biology but a hair different.

Well ladys and gents I'm off to bed and out of town for almost a week. Its been a month since I've seen the ranch. Collin Ray will be in town so its nothing personal but I'd rather be there