When I got the car , stock air box was turned forward and air was coming from front side , and rubber boot between air box and air flow meter had a plug where it used to be connected to box(can't think of name of it) under it . Somebody did it before i bought T-Bird. I removed the air box with air flow meter . Ditched top part (filter part) , then i put it back where it was tightly secured airflow using 12 mm socket. For my CAI I used rubber boot that used to be between air box and air flow. I turned it around secured it with 3 inch clamp. Then I used piece of 2.5 inch pipe with K&N filter and hooked it up to my rubber boot. All I really needed was K&N (you can use whatever name filter ya want) with clamp and piece of straight short ram intake(you can use 2.5 inch PVC if you don't have real deal. Make sure everything is nice and thight. You dont want that thing flying in your fan blades when you are on hgwy doing 70MPH!!! !!!!Be careful where you put your CAI b/c you don't want it to be anywhere near the fan blades!!!!! I have used 93-95 Civic Short Ram with K&N(used) that i got on e-bay for 20 bucks plus shipping. It won't clear the blades unless you cut the elbow and throw it in trash. Also I have reset the computer before I drove it with new CAI. You don't have to do that . You can jsut let it learn by it self. I noticed big diff. on top end ...man it can breath now. I can't wait till I get Stingers(if he make some soon) 3" downpipe and run it without cat and muffler. Right now I got stock DP and glasspack and thats it . No mufflers , no chrome pipes in back... jsut side exhaust.
here is my exhaust . It needs to be bigger!!! Stinger, I need that 3 inch DP . I'm ready for lil more HP. T-Bird can move quick when you are rolling , but man of the line my MX6 GT could smoke it with just intake and exhaust(that's when it was running) . I dunno , maybe if I put CF Dual Clutch or something or and loose about 700 LB I might be faster than GT. I'm not dissing good old T-Bird ,but man my t-bird takes its sweet time to get rolling. Its probably my clutch
