Intakes
 

There seems to be a big debate among our cars about intakes being worth the money or not.

What's your opinion?

What intake setup did you go with?

C&L ftw or jlt..

I have C&L, don't know if it improved anything.
I will have it for sale later this year. ;)

You didn't notice an improvement at all with it?

i had one on my old 11 v6 and i noticed it instantly it sound WAYYY better at top end and it pulled a lil bit harder, but thats with a v6:P

I'm sure most of what I felt was from the tune.

Yea it's in the tune I'll pick up one when I find one for cheap if not I'll rock the stock airbox

The stock intake on our cars is extremely efficient. The gains you feel come from the associated tune, not the new tube. I went with a JLT, mostly for looks, and GH's gave me a good deal.

The C&L is the best, the others are so-so. But it also does have a lot to do with the tune.

I've got the JLT, I just like the sound.

I got the steeda one just for looks. Nothing you can feel as far as performance.

i've heard this as well.

The first items i added to my car were a JLT with a BBR email tune and i definitely felt a good difference. But it's very possible that the tune (throttle response, cam timing, etc) were the real difference makers.

the boss 302s race car runs with a stock air box.... gotta be a reason for that.

That says a lot right there!

I ran the JLT CF CAI with tune and hit the same time as stock box with tune on the 1/8 mile...IMO, im good with my stock box.

I just installed a jlt cai today and pucked up 15 hp... It was tuned before amd got retuned for the intake.

I say jlt. Same HP results and less cost compared to c&l. I know on the 3v one of the mustang mags compared the two and picked up 3 or 4 more HP with the jlt.

Hey UT5.0 how long ago(miles) did they tune it for you? Any issues? Cost if you don't mind me asking.

He just got it tuned again the other day

The first tune cost me $250, but you have to bring your own sct tuner. The secind dyno tune was $75. No issues at all the guy semmed to know alot about 5.0s. he said that he took some timing out of the number 8 cylinder since there have been issues with that other wise it would have made a bit more power.

And it was tuned about 1000 miles ago:D

Sweet. Thanks for the info! I live right in the subdivision next to them. They did gears in my 09 3v but they kind of messed up. I got my tune from Dallas mustang but I'm not happy with their numbers so I've been thinking about taking it to GH. Probably just going to by a single license and get my friend to road tune it. He is pretty experienced as far as tuning goes.