I just bought a protege 5 and I love it. The only problem is the pep. I also own a 67 mustang with 350hp so I'm used to a little more than the 130hp stock my protege has. Anyways, I am looking at buying a cold air intake system and I see some at my import dealers' for like $150-200. I then see some on ebay for like $25-50. Has anybody ordered these ebay intake systems? If so how was the install/fit?

 

welcome to the boards.....I'm going to ask that you use the "search" button at the top of the page to do a search for "Ebay intake"....you'll see this topic has been covered about 100 times before.

Welcome to the forum.

 

stay away from the e-bay crap

 

Some are good some are bad a lot have ordered from Liveonspeed and have had no problems. I ordered from him an awaiting delivery If you wait I'll let you know how it was/is and installation

 

I have an e-bay CAI. It was something like $40 plus shipping. The materials are great. Good filter, quality pipe and it actually fit correct. 2 problems, concerning the couplings that go from the MAFS to the pipe, one on the left and one on the right. I only got one, not two and the one I got was too small to fit over the opening on the MAFS.

I look at it this way, if you have the cash, go ahead and get the name brand ones. I've seen the K&N Typhoon and it amazing, really amazing. In Canadian dollars its $100 for e-bay vs $300 name brand. Fudge that.

I got the couplings I needed at the Home Depot. All is good now.

 

i also have both the Ebay SRI and the AEM intake...I actually like the Ebay SRI better....I think FC3Sboy is a little biased since he's selling a competing product at almost 3 X's the cost of the ebay intake.

 

I hope youre not expecting whole lot of "pep" after adding just an intake. If anything it actually loses a little "pep" at the low end.

 

yeah I noticed the loss of low-end grunt with my ebay SRI...however, my 1/8th mile times dropped a consistant .2s.....I'm not saying the two are related....it's just funny how that worked out.

 

to me everything works well together, the ebay SRI, the cams, the header, and the exhaust...

 

welcome. i'm slowly building up my 66 mustang right now. i just found out it has the factory hi po engine so that was a little surprise.

 

<~~~67 GT350....(actually a 67 6cyl with a 65 GT350 K-code 289)

297hp
312lb/ft

not bad, but the car weighs almost 3700lbs.