Let me tell everybody something I know everybody has different opinions on this but I just literally went out and did this and it work tremendously I had sorry throttle response and very poor pick up from a dead stop instantly after doing this instant throttle response became apparent now I am doing burnouts from a dead stop everything that I couldn't do before it made a tremendous difference I think I picked up about 15 horsepower cold air or hot air doesn't matter it fucking worked I'm very happy with the results more than I expected

"Star shaped pattern" (4.58) otherwise known as torx…. Good idea on the cold air intake, but ideally it has to be in front of the header panel (where the radiator bolts on) not under the hood, where it gets mainly HOT air, or inside a box with a tube to the outside air.

Except now thats a hot air intake with no box 😂

"Star shaped pattern attachment" wtf LMAO 😆

You just came up with an efficient way of sucking really hot air into your engine. If you made a shield out of sheet metal that isolated the filter from the engine bay, and just drew air from behind the headlight housing, it may have been semi functional. I get what you were trying to do, but it’s not a good idea.

this does look like a nice mod. might have to give this a shot before i send mine off to it's forever sleep. ty for the tip man!

Keep it up. You’re the reason I got my p7b

A novice here- Very interesting videos and entertaining, too. Thanks. Do your many mods, upgrades, etc also apply to the Grand Marquis and/or the Marauder?

I put a drop in k&n filter cleaned my carb a d put platinum spark plugs and my 05 is smooth and stronger then ever

Just made a hot air intake. Stock phenolic plastic airfilter housing helps insulate the intake air from engine compartment heat. You can wrap the intake tube and air box with reflactive adhesive material and better insulate the intake from heat soak. Conical airfilters will flow better than flat filters. So thats always a positive.

If you do not have an electric saw (or any saw), you can also use a nylon string to cut the tube of the box.

Thanks bro. Did this on my MGM 98.

Mine is exactly the same put mine on two years ago works great 👍🏻

the sound SO GOOD

Great Hack! Thanks for this Excellent Video! It's no difference than a short ram intake. I paid $300 bucks for my F-350 Airaid Instaked that is no different than this $20 intake.

Love the vid bro! Def tryn it...👍🏽

Just a suggestion Mr. Random Go to Auto Zone and buy some intake ducting so you can move the cone filter down to a lower point in the engine bay. I did a very similar setup on a Grand Marq I used to have. I ran the intake down to lower bumper opening vs when I just had the intake replacing the factory box which broke and it made a big difference

Flows more air and makes more noise. Almost all of the power gain is going to be in the upper third of the power band, with most of that being up near red line. There are lots of videos on YT showing dyno tests of lower restriction air intakes and that is the result. Below about 4K or 5K RPM, the HP will show almost no change with about 10 ro 15 HP at the upper end.

I copied your idea, from this video. BUT I took the OLD plastic filter box, threw away the top part, and then mounted the bottom back in, and then trimmed it to be a heat shield! easy fix for the haters out there. crown vics kick ass.

I put a K and N rectangular filter in my civilian Crown Victoria for better filtration and reusability. The stock box let's all the air in my car could ever use and it is outside air. The stock intake silencer can be removed for slightly better flow if you need to add at most 1.5 horsepower. Best thing I ever did for my Ford was add a dual exhaust. On the civilian Crown Victoria this is easy because they already have two catalytic converters and mounts for the extra muffler and tailpipe. This modification gives better mileage and 15 more horsepower. If you do not use huge pipes you dont even need mufflers at all as the exhaust note is not rude coming through the stock manifolds and cats. Sounds like a sixties V8 with glasspacks if you get on it hard. Never had complaints from neighbors or passengers or cops.

Couldn't get it smoged with the airbox off so I put the cold air filter into the box itself works great .

Maybe I will try adding a custom Heat shield around the cone when I do this

You are Awesome Dude..! I am a 👑 Dealer in the 305 Area and looking forward to meeting-up with you my brother...👍

I did the same thing to my sonata I noticed a decent gain. It may not be cold air but it sucks in more air than stock. Kinda like a short ram intake.

Thanks for the video: question, do they made like, a block or attachment to block where the default MAF goes so you DON'T have to cut it?

Considering a stock filter barely flows over 300cfm of air i can understand how you could feel the extra power from that set up as the Spectre filter does flow a considerable amount of air compared to stock...However, you leave abit of power off the table by allowing the much hotter underhood air as opposed to outside temperature air which will always be cooler than under hood by a considerable amount even if its hot outside. The reason a car feels faster in cooler air is its more dense (more oxygen rich) being cooler and with most factory air/fuel ratios being about 15% or more rich from the factory, the cooler air leans the fuel mixture a bit which helps give it make more power with cooler air...Your power is coming from better air flow in general over the restrictive air filter and nothing more but if you can draw the cooler outside air like it was stock youll be even more happy with the results...Maybe not as throaty sounding but power wise a big plus Its a great mod but you can do better by keeping the factory air box with a high flow filter...You can get a high flow replacement filter (K&N style) off ebay for under 13 dollars shipped. I just purchased an 05 P71 air box assembly with the larger 80mm mass air flow sensor to replace the factory air box in my 01 Marquis (with proper calibration for the larger mass air in my case)...The P71/Maurauder box is a great piece by Ford.

First it is NOT a star adapter thing,it is an internal drive torx bit,second if you leave that air filter loose it will flop around and DAMAGE the mass airflow sensor be cause it's meant to be mounted solid,that's why the air box is bolted down,remove and discard the lid but leave the air box body in place use a zip tie to secure air filter to air box lower case.it won't restict airflow as there is no lid.

I wonder how this would work if I ran the tubbing a little longer so that the end of the cone was right up against that duct. And maybe put a screen over the cone so 🍃 🍂 won't suck in.

a k&n high flow filter for the stock airbox along with taking the silencer cone off the front of the airbox gave me at least 10hp on my'96

Hey bro, got a question. What diameter is the stock tubing. Or what diameter does the intake filter need to be. I was looking between the spectre like you have (what’s the model #) or a similar K&N one. Let me know bro. Keep up the videos!

HAI. Hot air intake but all except the videographer knows that.

Could have used your stock airbox as a heat shield with a lil modifacation to it.and it would have worked perfect as a heat protector.and please to the guy that said to use sheetmetal dont your basically turning your intake into a real oven.

Mr. R, wouldn't this setup be more of a Short Ram Intake than a Cold Air Intake?

So did you ever get the wrench light coming out with this style of air breathing

In case you want to duplicate this and don't feel like searching through the video for the part number it is 9732 and can be seen at the 1:10 in the video.

hellz yeah brother thank u so much ur that guy

3:19 *Now If Only My Dad Did* *That*

I am going to go ahead and do this mod can you just fill me in on the diameter of the filter right where it connects to the breather tube or is it a universal

My air box have 2 sensor. One in the middle of the box, one is the max airflow which I can remove which the saw

How about a link for the air filter

i did this to my 07 p71 a couple of months ago....but at high speeds it make this tube type howling noise at 100 mph. i did mine with one of those k&n filters at autozone. but i kept the bottom part if the original intake box for idk ,somethin lol but it looks good and sounds good...my car, but yo shit look good too.

Mr random with another random review

Ok I have to ask, i have seen so many p71's that has the same type of MAF sensor that you have here, Mine on the other hand has a CEL for the MAF and it has the MA sensor that is a 90 Degree plug and sits on top of the intake not the side like this one. the wiring has not been hacked up so I dont think it has been changed over. Why is mine different?

The only CAIs that work are routed to suck air from lower on the ground where the air is cooler than the engine bay, such as behind the wheel. If anything, this bolt on you did probably robbed some power.

Like the sound man

All this time I been watching ur vidz and I was in miami too lol funny

I looked around for that part # it’s 45.00 here in San Antonio tx ☹️

you da man ....thank you for your vid

A+ for initiative but it is like adding a 5” fart can to a civic. Yes you increased amount of air being pulled in, you are now pulling in a lot of hot air from the sides of the engine. Beyond that the filter will be flopping around unsecured and putting more pressure on that maf cable. But yes, it will sound better/“faster”/louder. If you want to see if it works put it on a dyno or go run some quarter mile times with and without. Unfortunately you ruined stock airbox so borrow from another Vic

You should do another one, but instead name it "For any car!" and end up just pouring some ice cubes into the air filter

pends i have an extra air cleaner box , im gonna have to try this.

so if i do this, a lot of people here are saying it’ll be hot air which isn’t as good as cold air, what if i make a opening where the headlight is allowing cold air to go in, would that help enough to make it worth doing?

Needs a shield around to keep the heat out.

Looks like a hot a hot air intake... That's actually worse than the factory set up which is honestly a decent set up to begin with.

Anyone have an idea of what the inlet diameter on the filter would have to be? Maybe a part number? Id like to try this on my vic but im not sure what will work

If i remember correctly that taking hot air not cold air you sucking in . Look it up

Mass air flow you can get one at a salvage yard for 5 fangers in the pocket free lol

GREAT Video, I will try this tomorrow, on my 2005 P71 C.V. West Central Florida, VIC CLUB, Coming soon. Brother..

Holy shit you're from Miami? I've been watching your videos all the time I'm from Miami to. Aren't you supposed to put a box around the cold air intake or scope out the hood right around where it is to increase the mpg and speed?

How about a link for the air filter thanks Bro love the vids!!

Where did you get the intake?

Thx for this easy upgrade. Cheap and easy

Hey Mr. Random. did you use the adapters that came with it or did it fit without them? Also where did you get it for $20 I can't find it that cheap.

Great Job! 👍

Do you just get the Spectre performance air filter just like that? It doesn't have to be a specific type? Or what type of air filter did you use Mr Random Reviews?

Wot I didn’t the same thing to my Crown vic p71 🙀🙀😃😃💯

Where did you buy this filter??

Do you have the link for the cold air intake

Can you do a subscriber Meetup for all of us here in Florida

Is that the midnight blue crown vic paint?

Works perfect for me because I work at AutoZone xD

I use a styrofoam cooler with ice to surround the filter

Im in WPB, FL. & Im also a freaking Cuban lmao. We gotta meet up sometime mang'!🤘

I did this to mu 05 and it ran like crap, falling on it's face also tried a hole k&n kit and the died so i ended up just istalling a k&n factory size filter in the factory air box

U should’ve have done custom piping cut a hole thru the wheel well and ran the piping to the ground and build a cover for it then it would be an actual cold air intake the way u did it ur bringing in hotter air than the actual air box itself and u have a slightly better throttle response but no hp gains u actually loose some hp bcuz it’s hot air if u run the intake away from the engine bay all together u probably looking at a 10 to 20 hp gain and better gas mileage bcuz ur bringing in that colder air please if your looking to do this do it right or up be paying more in gas and won’t gain any hp barely a sound difference just take the extra time and do it right check out mightycarmods KZfaq channel they will show u everything and they test it

Is that vic still runnin right

I have a 2001 mercury grand marquis but my air intake is somewhat different. I have an air temperature control sensor on my box. Plus the hose is bolted to the box instead of made together. Any ideas for how to deal with the act sensor?

What else you do to the crown vic

Oh and honestly while you have the intake system pulled apart you might as well clean the throttle body, iac, and maf sensor.

A lot of people say that’s not good for your car

Fun stuff!!

Isolation box to keep the intake cool next...?

Im am about to get an 09 and i want to try that.

Man I'm so jealous that you can work on your car outdoors right now. I'm up in Minnesota and it's been bellow zero for like a month now. I have so many things I want to tinker with on my vic, but I can't... haha

Cool project. Can you even buy a cold air intake for a Crown Vic/ Marquis? If not, that's an inexpensive way to make your own. It would be nice to see if it improves track times. Lol

Ya know you can cut the box about an inch below the filter all the way around so the entire bottom of the filter is exposed to the air and it's costs nothing at all. I've done this to any car I've gotten with a V8 or truck and it does as good and costs nothing. Just a thought. The way money and prices are you can still make improvements for nothing or very little. Your going to toss the box anyhow so why not? If you don't have air you can use something like screen door mesh and put that on top the inside fender plastic and have cold air right at the exposed filter. The stock box has a tiny 2 inch hole to suck the air. That's not enough for a V8. Take horn out or cut that part of the box.

What type of filter is that

Thank you !

Outstanding on replacing the factory "Cold Air" intake with a "Hot Air" intake. Seriously, the biggest air flow limiter is the position of the throttle body plate. Why do so many people get this wrong?

From what I understand it's this induction system from the Maurader that gives the Vic it's slight power increase. Including the larger throttle body. So he's either gaining nothing or slightly losing power due to heat soak. No hate, just sayin bud.

very good

What happened to the black stang??

what about the sensor that plugs into the box itself

Looks like a warm air intake to me - drawing in hot under hood air. Going backwards, boy racer mods. What’s up next, a trunk mount battery for “weight transfer?”

It is called a Torx wrench.

That's going to suck in all the hot air from your engine

U hav custom pipes?

Fuck that shit I got a K@N but no longer have enough for that space age heat tape..😆 2 years ago i did it to my taho and it ran good..

Scotty Kilmer says they do nothing

I have a suggestion for your next video bro.