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1/14/2007 - C&L Pipe/80mm Mass Air - Fan Review - Cleaning Underneath |
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 The C&L 4.6L 96-01 Mustang cold air intake pipe arrived that I plucked off of ebay. Got a darn good deal on the pipe, 80mm mass air, K&N filter and cover. Just a bit of adjustment and it looks like it was made for this car to me. With the motor up 1/2" and a 1" spacer on the intake it does look like I'll have to do a slight hood brace mod to make it fit though. |
 I kept looking at this pipe online and thinking that it HAD to fit right into the flow needed for a 69/70 Mustang. No way I was going to fork over the money for new one just to test it, but I ended up getting a good deal on this used one. You can barely see the standoff bracket I built to hold up the Mass Air Sensor from here. |
 I decided to drag out a couple old electric fans I bought years ago for some future project. I'm getting ready to order a new aluminum radiator and wanted to make sure how much area these fans would cover. They are 11 1/2" Delcos that I picked up at a swap meet once upon a time. |
 This is NOT the radiator I'll be running but it's close to the same area so I could test how the fans would fit and how deep they would sit back in the engine bay. I might build an aluminum shroud out of sheet to spread out the airflow. Looks like it would be pretty easy. A guy down the street building a wild inverted trike from a sport bike is getting a break that I hope to use for a few good bends. |
 I spent part of a day laying around... under the car... scraping off crud. Actually it wasn't that bad. I used a scraper for the first round, a wire brush in a hand drill for round two and then some carb cleaner and an old towel and ended up with what is shown. Down to the original black paint. I still have from the rear seat riser to the back to finish in these pics and around the trans once I pull the mock up back out. |
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 I installed the Mass Air Flow sensor pig tail I got with one of the mass air meters I bought. Worked out rather nice. I was going to have to extend the existing mass air wiring to reach the mounting location of the C&L unit so this will work out great. |
 The pig tail came complete with the connector. I now will have a connector and plug making it look near original. I still need to cut off the original mass air connector and solder up the new one here. |
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