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Reddevil91

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Looking at this intake to put on my car, was going to buy this and get a lower off an explorer or mountaineer with a 5.0. I just don't know if this is a good pick up or is this junk. I've seen it labeled as mercury marine what is that?
 

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Short answer. No.
 

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Mstng93SSP said:
Short answer. No.
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Can you explain? Is it crap or do you say so bc you feel there is better options?
 

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That is a marine version of the Cobra/GT40 and best I can remember there are problems getting the EGR spacer and throttle body to bolt up to it correctly.
 
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This has popped up before. It is a Marine GT40 boat engine intake that is being advertised as able to be used on a vehicle.

They will not work on a car. EGR provision in a different spot, and more importantly, no mounting flange for the throttle cable linkages. It's also shorter than a standard cobra intake which leads to alignment issues with factory style intake tubing and/or supercharget kits.


 

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This has popped up before. It is a Marine GT40 boat engine intake that is being advertised as able to be used on a vehicle.

They will not work on a car. EGR provision in a different spot, and more importantly, no mounting flange for the throttle cable linkages. It's also shorter than a standard cobra intake which leads to alignment issues with factory style intake tubing and/or supercharget kits.


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You had a really good picture of one of each side by side before, do you still have that Mike?
 
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Davedacarpainter said:
You had a really good picture of one of each side by side before, do you still have that Mike?
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Ahhhhh thanks man, glad I didn't pull the trigger. Thought the area for spacer and tb looked short. Guess I'll just have to wait or maybe think about a trick flow since all the big box shops have done away with cobra intakes.
 

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Davedacarpainter said:
You had a really good picture of one of each side by side before, do you still have that Mike?
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Tried to find it but couldn't
 

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Sorry my answer was short. I was traveling and didn't have time to get into it like these guys did. I just gave a short answer of no in hopes that you wouldn't pull the trigger on that until you heard the advise given above.

Chris
 
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