Scott Boda here, with Steeda Auto Sports to talk about our S550 Cold Air Intakes.
What we're going to talk about today is the difference between an Open Lid Cold
Air Intake and a Closed Lid, and which one will be
best for your S550 Mustang.
Okay, so we all know - what's the purpose of a Cold Air Intake?
Well, it's to suck in cold air right? Cold air means horsepower.
The cooler, the denser the air, the more horsepower potential that your car has.
Now you can do it a lot of different ways. It's always been typically an
open-style cold air kit. Looks really good. You got your filter hanging out.
The OEM has been good over the years of trying to make the factory
cold air intake a little bit better, but here at Steeda,
we're known for taking things to the next level. So that's exactly what we did
with our Closed Lid Cold Air Intake. But we're going to talk about the
specific differences of what each kit does, and why each one's a little bit
different, and why you need one for your Mustang.
So, let's face it. Anytime we can get more air into a motor
and air out of the motor, you're gonna make more horsepower -right?
All an internal combustion engine is, is just a big air pump. So, we're just
trying to get that air in and out of the motor
now as with most all aftermarket cold air intakes
you do need to add a computer tune to really take advantage
of the potential for the cold air intake now the computer
tune is there because we are increasing the size
of the mass air meter without a proper calibration
you can literally damage your motor by not having it tuned properly
so if you're going to get the cold air intake you're going to have to get the
tune at the same time now there are cold air
intakes out there that don't require a tune in fact we offer some here at
steeda as well you're not going to maximize the
potential though if you go that route because all said and done a tune
theoretically does add more horsepower than the cold air
kit does but we're going to try to increase the volume of the air
getting into that coyote to maximize your horsepower we're here with our 2018
steeda proflow open air intake the beauty of this intake looks right
there is no doubt about it when you pop your hood you've got a cold air intake
on your car nice smooth roto molded intake tube
velocity stack now what a velocity stack is is it's going to be a
funnel that's taking a larger diameter of air
and squeezing it in so what we're trying to do is we're trying to increase the
velocity of the air what this is going to do is it's going
to give you an optimum very clean mass air meter signal this is
a kit that i recommend people that daily drive
their mustangs right they want a little more horsepower they
like the looks of it uh the steeda kit is designed
specifically for the 18 and newer the third gen
coyote where it's going to seal against the hood
there's no trimming of the engine cover required we do offer this kit in a 114
millimeter mass air meter a tune is required
but like i said it's really going to allow these third third-gen coyotes to
breathe a lot better and it also looks great so back in november 2017
we had our project silver bullet delivered to us from pompano beach
florida we immediately went to the drag strip
and the first thing we wanted to add was our existing 15 to 17 cold air
intake but ford actually increased the mass air
meter for the third gen coyote motor we were
not seeing the results that we wanted to see at the 1320
and as we always say around here at steeda um
we like to prove or disprove a theory by going to the track and racing
so it was me and an engineer over a couple cold ones at a local restaurant
where we came up with our closed lid cold air intake
designed exclusively for the s550 mustang and before we move over to the
closed lid my personal favorite this does with
a tune pick up close to 30 horsepower to the
rear tires now that's going to be on premium
93 octane of course if you do splash some e85 in your car you're gonna see
gains that are even greater than that to the rear tires remember all cedars
products come with a lifetime warranty so we proudly stand behind this for a
lifetime you got a million mile air filter that's cleanable
reusable so all in all it is an absolute great kit and looks very nicely
on this 2018 mustang so as i was saying when we originally went to the drag
strip with our 15 to 17 cold air intake open air with a little smaller mass air
mirror we didn't see the results that we wanted
so we went to the drawing board how could we get a production model
2018 gen 3 coyote motor into the tents and not only into the tens but the first
one in the world into the tens so we started coming up with some ideas
me and the engineer went to work on our 3d printer and we
printed up a prototype closed lid cold air kit reason why we
did that is ford made the lower part of this air
box a little bit bigger and what we're doing is we're trying to
maximize the ram air effect coming in through this front snorkel so
let's see while we're at speed you're driving down
the road maybe cruising doing 50 miles an hour 45
miles an hour get a 45 mile an hour wind coming right at this front bumper
now when you're in the quarter mile these things run about 117 miles an hour
stock if we could capture that air and force
it down the throat of this coyote we're going to make more power right
it's actually just a ram air effect so we printed up some 3d prototypes we
printed them up and we immediately went to the drag
strip now they didn't actually seal right away at first
so thanks to some thompson water seal and some flex seal we were able to seal
up those 3d prototype intakes but what we wanted to do was try to
prove or disprove a theory well it proved the theory because in
february of 2018 the steeda silver bullet became the
world's first all-motor gen 3 coyote into the tens on motor
alone naturally aspirin so we were super
excited about so we had to go to our manufacturer and come out with a
production version of this kit the beauty of the kit is the coldest air
intake temps on the market well why does that make a difference well
because air intake temps is what's going to tell the computer how
much max timing it can run the more timing you can run in a motor
the more potential there is for horsepower
so we knew by having colder air intake temps we were going to
maximize the efficiency of this motor so went into production with it and we
absolutely loved it the results were outstanding now i do
tell people this is a max effort cold air kit what that means
is it is exactly that it's a max effort it's not
going to have the signal quality of a velocity stack system with an open
air filter that's why for a lot of the daily drivers
i recommend the open air if you're looking for a max effort cold air kit
for your road course skies autocrossers drag strips
or just want the coolest intake temps on the market the steeda pro
flow closed lid cold air intake is your ticket
it also offers the industry's largest mass air meter
you're talking about something that's adjustable from 120
to 128 millimeters all told this gen 3 coyote with the help of some
comp cams and some breton barber magic makes 570 horsepower to the rear tires
through an automatic it's the world's only gen 3 mustang
that's been in the nine second range on motor
we're talking 994 at 139 miles an hour stay tuned because this winter
we're going to show you how to get this car down the 970s and 960 range
still all motor one of the other beauties about this steeda cold air
intake is it's compatible with the cobra jet
intake manifold everybody knows if you want to go fast
the 18 manifold is a phenomenal manifold but for all out performance you really
want a cobra jet upper intake manifold so the beauty with
the seat the closed lid is we have two different elbows one for
the stock manifold and one for the cj and it does fit all 15 to 20 20
ford mustangs now i should mention that while we said you can pick up close to
30 horsepower with the open air the closed lid is not a dyno queen the
open air is going to make more power on dyno every single time
why because you got the filter hanging open there's more surface area
but i don't know the last time i raced my car with the hood open going down the
track so to see the real world results with
the closed lid you're not going to see it on a diner
you're going to see it at speed in the real world environment because
none of that air coming through that front bumper
gets bled off it goes straight down the throat of that coyote
so that is really going to shine like i said at the drag strip
road course or at the autocross so i hope you all enjoyed the comparison
between our open air cold air intake and the closed lid
hopefully that gives you some insight to which cold air kit would be best for you
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