I am Chris Duke and this is Motorz. When you buy a Stock Mustang GT from the dealer, it comes with plenty of power, but to unleash it you have to turn to aftermarket products. One popular performance mod to unleash more power is the cold air intake which increases airflow and is less restrictive to the engine. Another popular mod is to-air which modifies the factory ECU settings and it really for huge performance gains.
Today on Motorz, we are going to show you how to install cold air intake from BBK Performance, then tune the engine using a Flash Tuner from SCT. The BBK intake kit comes with a heat shield and a rubber seal for it, this coupler, some hose clamps, the filter and a powder coated intake too. Now, we are also going to use SCT Tuner that comes preloaded with tunes. We are also going to use the 91 octane tune. We have filled up our Mustang with the tank loaded of 91-Octane.
Now, we've do recommend that you take it to an authorized SCT dealer and have it dynoed so that they can create a specific tune for your vehicle. For an installation as simple as this, you don't need a whole lot of tools. You are going to need a Torque's 20 bit, a flat blade screwdriver or some nut drivers, an 8 mm and a 7mm, a socket Wrench, an 8 mm socket and a 10mm socket.
Swapping out the air intake on a 08 Mustang GT like this is really simple, because it's all located into the front of the vehicle. All we've got to do is to remove the stock intake and the airbox and replace it with the BBK one. So the first thing that we are going to do is we are going to disconnect this mass air meter right here. I will pull that little tab out, the red one and pinch this, and it pops out just like that.
Next thing we want to do is go over here to the passenger side and there is a PCV valve. Detach this whole by pushing the green tab on the bottom away from it, and it pops out just like that. Next thing we want to do is remove this clamp that connects the hose to part of the body, We use a flat blade screwdriver and nut driver.
On the driver side of the airbox, is a 10mm bolt; need to remove that next. Once you've removed this bolt here, you can go ahead and remove the entire air intake assembly, but you want to keep this around because we need to remove this aass air meter next. Remove the plastic radiator cover by popping off these 6 plungers. Now, the reason I will need to get down here is because of this radiator plate, we need to pop that off, because we are going to use that as a mounting point for this heat shield. So grab a 10mm socket and move these two bolts.
Next, take the supply to hose clamp and wrap it around the blue coupler, put this around throughout the body. Just need a flat blade screwdriver or a nut driver to tighten this down. An important step is moving the mass air meter from the stock intake to the new one. So grab a Torque's 20 bit and remove these two screws that are here.
Once you've done that, then you can carefully move that mass air meter off to the new tube. We want to make sure that you don't damage it or touch it or anything like that, because it is very sensitive. You can use the same screws. They are just removed.
Now we've got the engine department prepped and ready to go for our new intake, we need to assemble the kit. So to do that, take your heat shield, insert your air filter right in there and then take your intake tube, insert it into the other end. Once you've got that in there pretty good, we are going to butt that up as much as possible, just like that, and you can tighten it down with a flat blade screwdriver or a nut driver.
Take your fully assembled air intake kit and insert it into your engine department, with the front of the heat shield over that top host on the radiator, and then take your intake too, then slide it into the blue coupler. Good tip here is to take that hose clamp and push it off to the side so you have good wiggle room here to get that tube in there.
Once you have the tube in there, you can wiggle this back on to it and then tighten it down with a flat blade screwdriver or your nut driver. Now, take your 10mm socket and reattach this bolt on the driver side of the heat shield as well as over here on this radiator plate, you can reattach that guy right there with those two 10mm bolts.
To complete the installation of the BBK intake kit, reattach the PCV hose on the passenger side as well as the mass air flow sensor on the driver side. Press the seal around the heat shield starting from this plate from the radiator. Once you've got that on there you can put your radiator cover back on and reconnect your battery terminal.
BBK Performance told us this intake is designed to replicate the Ford's Stock Airbox and as a result no tuning is required. That's great because normally when you change anything having to do with the engine on a late-model vehicle like one, it's going to throw error codes at you. Those guys at BBK did a great job, engineering their way out of that one.
With that being said since we are also changing the octane of the fuel, we want to get as much power of this Mustang as possible, we are going to tune it anyway. To do that, the good people over at SCT Performance hooked this up with their Flash Tuner. And since we also needed a custom tune for our setup, we've ordered one from Fastlane Incorporated created specifically for this vehicle a BBK intake and our fuel of choice. Let's hook this up and unlock more power.
Before you hook up your tuner to your vehicle, it's recommended that you hook up a trickle charger to your battery, because the last thing you want to have happen is to have your battery die right in the middle of the tune. So once you are ready, take your tuner and plug it into the OBD tube port right underneath your dash here on the left side.
To upload our custom tune provided to us from Fastlane Incorporated, use the provided software from SCT. Then go to Program Vehicle, press Select and head on over to Custom Tune, press Select, then select the FastlaneBBktune, then press Continue, then Begin Program.
Now, once it's done setting things up, it's going to want to program of the vehicle. So for that we need to turn the key on and press Continue. And turn the key off and press Continue again. Now we need to turn the key back on to actually program everything.
BBK states an improvement of 18 HP and 17 foot pounds of Torque, while SCT states an improvement of 17 HP and 30 foot pounds of Torque, that's a combined total for both products of 35 Horse and 47 foot pounds of Torque as stated by both of those manufacturers.
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