Do Cold Air Intakes do anything?

[Mustang92]

lg3tech you might want to close your eyes to this post.

I installed a Densecharger set up on my car after the bullitt intake swap and the car slowed down at the track. I swaped it out for a simple 3.5" steel tube and the car picked right back up. To give it a fair shot I even did a same day test against each and the DC set up couldn't match the simple steel tube set up.

Back to the DC there is the issue of quality and I've seen this on more than just my kit. Basically the densecharger kit is nothing more than a Home Depot cold air kit with a few pieces cut to fit and painted with spray paint. Anyone that has worked with rubber couplers and painted plastic knows that the paint has a tendancy to melt where ever the rubber is touching it. This makes the paint come off of the piping and sometimes leads to leaks. I never had leaks but I did have paint coming off on my hands when fitting it up. Sorry but that is just poor craftsmanship.

I also noticed issues with the IAT sensor fitting properly into the piping as well as on Dave's (Kurgan from the other Mustang boards) car. All in all a creative person could buy a K&N filter for $40 and buy the parts necessary for another $40 and do the same job.

I did a comparison with the MAC set up on my car prior to the bullitt intake and found the same results. The stock inlet tube with open K&N was worth a tenth over the MAC set up.

Bill