Pretty simple question -- I'm starting to lean towards replacing the stock air intake on my 04 SE Zetec with an SVT snorkel rather than a cool air intake. Anybody have any opinion either way? Doubtful, but has anyone dyno'd 'em side by side? :dunno:
SVT snorkel or cool air intake?
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Pretty simple question -- I'm starting to lean towards replacing the stock air intake on my 04 SE Zetec with an SVT snorkel rather than a cool air intake. Anybody have any opinion either way? Doubtful, but has anyone dyno'd 'em side by side? :dunno:
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Go with the svt airbox setup or iceman intake( on ebay) and you will be straight.
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On a cool night, long ram and a short ram air intakes are going to give you a little extra oomph. Long ram air intakes are going to suck in cooler air due to it's location near the bottom front fender, but you have to worry about sucking in water from the road. Short ram air intakes are great on a cool day, but you have to worry about heat soak(basically sucking in the hot air produced by the cars engine), which can actually have a negative affect on performance. I own an SVT and love the stock setup. In my opinion, buy an SVT snorkel, go to www.focussport.com and buy a ITG pan air filter and call it a day.
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Oh? Good condition? I think I'd still rather go with the SVT, but if the price is right.... not that there should be any shortage of people looking to buy an iceman system.2focusd said:I'm gonna be selling my Iceman setup here pretty soon if you'd be interested in it
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just buy the snorkel and dremel out the bottom of your airbox to fit.
Take you stock snorkel tube, pull off the snorkel and mount it to your airbox where the resonator used to be.
On a cold night if you took that intake setup against otherwise identical cars with all other intakes, I guarantee you will see a bigger difference in driving ability than performance from the intake.
Take you stock snorkel tube, pull off the snorkel and mount it to your airbox where the resonator used to be.
On a cold night if you took that intake setup against otherwise identical cars with all other intakes, I guarantee you will see a bigger difference in driving ability than performance from the intake.
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the iceman intake also smooths out the piping from the airbox to the tb.. it gets my vote if its reasonably priced.
That is a bonus.
Though like I said. I would love to see a swarm of stock ZX3's with only the intake changed out dynoed and raced against each other.
I honestly don't think you'd see much of a difference unless it was a hot day, some of the SRI's wouldn't cut it.
Though like I said. I would love to see a swarm of stock ZX3's with only the intake changed out dynoed and raced against each other.
I honestly don't think you'd see much of a difference unless it was a hot day, some of the SRI's wouldn't cut it.
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I think you will like the SVT airbox and snorkel, especially if you use an Iceman TB tube. The Iceman tube is smooth inside and the same diameter as the MAF housing. I've been running that combo for over a year and it works great. Doesn't cost too much either, if you find fellow Jetters selling the parts.
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Go with a heatshielded CAI. Like the focussport Coolflo.
Otherwise get the svt airbox and snorkel with drop in filter.
Otherwise get the svt airbox and snorkel with drop in filter.
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Whatever you go with, make sure it keeps the stock MAF housing. I know most of the true cold-air intakes that put the filter near the fender change where the MAF goes. Our cars don't like this very much. I had an AEM cold air, which has a different MAF housing.... made my car run like total crap under 3,000 rpm, which is where I do most of my driving. I took that pile of garbage off and my car is running worlds better now.
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