Is intake mandatory for tuned SHO?

[SHOdded]

Rabbit hole LOL. How much flow, the shape of the flow, ...

 

[SM105K]

Rabbit hole LOL. How much flow, the shape of the flow, ...

I assume making dedicated single tube and filtered intake pipe for each turbo while routing one to each fender (completely out of the engine bay) with the ability to have some type of ram air to them probably be the best approach? I think. ****, maybe a "big" single turbo would make this easier. Has anyone fabbed a single for this platform?

 

[StealBlueSho]

I assume making dedicated single tube and filtered intake pipe for each turbo while routing one to each fender (completely out of the engine bay) with the ability to have some type of ram air to them probably be the best approach? I think. ****, maybe a "big" single turbo would make this easier. Has anyone fabbed a single for this platform?

Yes. There was a one off... but developed the same power as our twin setup.


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[SM105K]

Yes. There was a one off... but developed the same power as our twin setup.


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Maybe down the road I will have my friend fab a kit and let a billet 67 mm turbo light this little motor up.

 

[SM105K]

So me proof that the SHO platform needs a CC? One of the guys on here talked to the ford engineers who helped develop the transverse 3.5 and they told him a cc was not needed for these cars iirc...




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You said you wanted proof. Here is 3000 miles of mixed non daily driving in my SHO. Mobil 1 5W-30. This was two 700 mile round trip adventures, 15 ish track passes, 5 dyno pulls, on various "hottness" AJPTurbo E30 tunes.

Like I said, the GDI motors (esp the force induction one) have this problem. There is a reason they are putting secondary injectors before the intake valves again.

I don't want that crap in the bottle recycling/recirculating into my motor at anytime. A $400 UPR CC is worth the piece of mind and changing my oil every 3k is no sweat.

 

[Tru-Blu]

I had a CAI intake on my 2006 Lincoln LS. It may have generated more HP, but I never dynoed it before or after to affirm that. I could detect better throttle response, and could certainly hear the air getting sucked in more if I had the windows down. Gas mileage improvement may have been marginal - never really tracked it that well. What I do know is that I was not as proactive as I should have been in cleaning and oiling it. I decided to go with the K&N drop-in this time around. Hopefully, I'll do better in cleaning it more regularly - but at least it won't be as much of an eyesore if I slip every now and then.

 

[Lostneye]

I had a CAI intake on my 2006 Lincoln LS. It may have generated more HP, but I never dynoed it before or after to affirm that. I could detect better throttle response, and could certainly hear the air getting sucked in more if I had the windows down. Gas mileage improvement may have been marginal - never really tracked it that well. What I do know is that I was not as proactive as I should have been in cleaning and oiling it. I decided to go with the K&N drop-in this time around. Hopefully, I'll do better in cleaning it more regularly - but at least it won't be as much of an eyesore if I slip every now and then.

I had an 06 Lincoln LS with a CAI, couldn't really tell with the butt dyno but had a friend with an 05 LS and we were about dead even before the CAI and I would slowly walk him with it.