Hey guys, Stephanie with AmericanMuscle.com here with my overview of the K&N Series 63
AirCharger high performance intake available for the 2015 and up EcoBoost Mustang.
This overview is going to cover a few topics with the K&N like what you can expect from
this intake, some info about the components and the construction, and some info about
the install.
The install for this is a simple one.
It's going to be a one out of three wrenches on the scale, but I'll get more into that
a little bit later on.
The K&N cold air intake is going to be for the S550 EcoBoost owners out there that are
looking for a budget friendly aftermarket cold air intake to clean up the looks of the
engine bay.
Aftermarket cold air intakes are a popular mod, but there are a few different choices
out there between the airbox styles and the filters.
The K&N here is an open element style intake so it's going to be the most basic design.
It's also one of the most budget friendly.
The K&N is going to come with a few pieces.
You have your air filter, your inlet tube, clamps, an adapter for the filter, and a coupler
for the filter as well.
It's going to come with all of the necessary hardware that you need to get this intake
installed.
The K&N here does not require a tune to be installed.
As far as the factory intake goes, it's actually really good.
It's highly functional and it isn't as restrictive as you might think it is.
What we tend to see is that aftermarket cold air intakes tend to function a little bit
better than the factory intake in the upper RPMs and especially after some mods have been
completed.
The K&N is one of the more basic designs, though, so it doesn't maintain the cold air
feed from the grille of the car and it does not have a closed airbox.
But it has a shroud instead.
Like other aftermarket intakes for the EcoBoost, this one does not require a tune.
No aftermarket cold air intake for the EcoBoost Mustang requires a tune because these cars
are speed density cars.
The requirement of a tune with aftermarket intakes comes from the size of the MAF or
the mass air flow.
An aftermarket intake can only go so big with the MAF size before the car's going to need
a computer tune.
Since the EcoBoost is a speed density car, they don't have a MAF sensor.
So, no aftermarket intake for this car is going to require a tune, which means that
you can just bolt up any intake and go.
Even though this is the case with the EcoBoost, I do want to be clear with the fact that you're
only going to see gains of a few horsepower without a tune.
You can expect a small bump in horsepower and torque if you just wanted to bolt this
thing up and go.
Taking a look at some of the components of the intake, the air filter is a reusable oiled
filter.
It's made from layers of cotton gauze and screens that are epoxy coated for durability
and filtration.
The oil's used to treat the cotton gauze to give it a tackiness and give it the filtration
abilities that it needs.
What's nice about the reusable filter is that you can clean the filter when it's dirty and
reinstall it and not have to worry about purchasing a new filter every time.
Looking at the price for this intake, you can expect to pay close to the $300 mark for
this intake.
This is on the more budget friendly side of the aftermarket intakes.
Like I mentioned earlier, this is one of the more simple designs with just a heat shield
and a filter.
That's going to help keep the price down a bit.
As for the install, it's nothing too difficult.
Like I mentioned earlier, the intake will come with all of the items that you need to
complete the install.
All you really need to get then is a few basic hand tools.
This is probably one of the easier mods that you can tackle with your new Mustang.
It'll take about a half hour or an hour tops.
I'm going to call it a one out of three wrenches on our scale.
All that you really need to do is remove the factory airbox.
You need to disconnect the airbox from the inner fender and remove the inlet tube from
the air filter.
We're just talking about a few bolts and clamps here.
The K&N installs nearly the same way that the factory airbox came out, but it's a little
bit different because of the heat shield.
You'll just have an L-bracket instead.
The rest of the install is pretty much the same as installing a factory intake.
Just put on your new couplers and clamps and slide the air filter and shroud into place,
and tighten everything down.
Wrapping things up here, this intake from K&N has a simple design that's going to look
better under the hood than the factory airbox.
It has a reusable filter that's easy to clean and reinstall when the time comes.
You can check it out more online for yourself right here at AmericanMuscle.com.