i want to put cold air intake on her, but be fore i send the money on it i just want to know what it will do. Thanks
To answer your question quickly, no you can not install a turbocharger AND supercharger AND keep your cold air intake. It is just not possible/feasible. YOU CAN, however, compound charge(feeding a roots-type supercharger with a turbocharger setup) the vehicle which would be VERY expensive and not worth the money in RD and fabrication. My advice would be to choose either Turbo or Supercharging and go from there. Turbo setups can be costly, but usually yield the best, most usable performance numbers. Either way, you will be spending a lot of money to accomplish one or the other. Good luck!
Nothing worth paying for. As was said earlier, a KN filter would get the same results. If you're looking at advertisements in magazines, they typically add the cold air intake to a built motor that had retained the stock intake, to show a modest power gain.
In theory, a cold air intake relocates the air filter to a place of higher pressure and lower temperatures than the engine bay. Colder air equals more dense air, which allows the engine to burn more fuel, and make more power. In theory, and really in practice this works great. The problem is, many don't do a great job of keeping the air as cold as it could. There are a couple misconceptions that were subjected as fact in the previous answers. One is that a KN filter will do the same thing as a full cold air intake. This is false. You can see a gain with just a filter, but because of the way the stock mustang intakes are designed, there's so much turbulence and a lack of laminar airflow, that velocity hurts, and reduces power. An aftermarket intake can make an improvement in power simply from smoothing out the path for the air to follow from the filter to the intake manifold. Another is that the results are inflated. The tests I've seen were on 100% stock engines, not internally modified as someone else suggested. I have seen as much as 12whp made from a good quality intake on a stock mustang. You also didn't say what model mustang you had, if it was a V6, GT or cobra. Cobra's tend to be restricted the most, and V6s the least. One thing that someone else said was that they aren't worth the money. To an effect, that's true. $250-300 is cheap in the realm of modifications and can help if you plan to do more N/A work in the future, or just want bolt-on performance, but if you plan on going more expensive forced induction in the future, it's not a wise investment. If you have a V6 and get a good CAI, you could see a 4-6whp increase.not a lot, and nothing you will feel, you will just hear it. V8s will get anywhere from 8-12whp, but you still won't feel it. With the right mixture of parts, you can get a good amount of power, and a retune would help a lot in addition to intake and exhaust modifications.
