What CAI?

EXTRPR50

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My BBK chrome intake is looking weak from rust, time, etc. and I never liked the size of the filter. It came with my car.
What does everyone like out there? I know JLT has a kit for Terminators that everyone likes, do they make one for Foxes?
What looks good and gives good performance together? Underhood? Fender?

 

Loco5.0

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There's a MAC CAI on my car. It looks good to me, but I recently bought the car with it already on & the car wasn't driven in bad weather.

 

blackened88lx

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Gotta be fenderwell. An underhood is the opposite of a "cai" and just sucks in hot underhood air. The stock airbox works great. The only aftermarket "cai" that's worth spending money on is an Anderson power pipe.

 

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I've read good things about the mac fenderwell cai
but then again i've read you can't beat the factory setup if you remove the silencer and add a good air filter.

 

Prime Lord

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The main reason to run a CAI (from my perspective) is underhood cleanliness. It just looks better than the big rubber hose connected to the big airbox. You might see some performance gains w/ the in-fender kit, but thats primarily from reducing the turbulence the air generates in the factory airbox.

With that said, I had a BBK CAI in my previous '89 (similar to the MAC) and I liked it. The next one I get, I'm gonna powdercoat black though.

 

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blackened88lx said:

Gotta be fenderwell. An underhood is the opposite of a "cai" and just sucks in hot underhood air. The stock airbox works great. The only aftermarket "cai" that's worth spending money on is an Anderson power pipe.

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Exactly.

If you are not going to use an anderson.
Just put a panel filter in the stock box.

 

EXTRPR50

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Thanx, Ill check the Anderson pipe.

 

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Stock air box FTW!

 

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I've always heard the BBK was the top-rated cai for the 5.0. Matter of fact, I DID notice some gains going from the stock panel filter to the BBK cai. As far as looks go, ANYTHING new will look better than an old rusty intake pipe.