I'm glad you said that about the fitment. I talked to a rep at Ford Performance and he said they hadn't heard anything about fitment issues. He was familiar with this forum, I thought there was enough complaints in this thread alone about the dissatisfaction with the fitment.
Doesn't sound like such a good investment then...you may or may not make it past 30k lol. Why not use the FP tune and expect a full life span of 150k~200k miles unless you want bragging rights...? An FP tuned EB is as fast as a 40k Focus RS / WRX STI and faster than pre-coyote V8's.
All ford needed to do was create a new mold for the air bucket intake tube. It's not part of the air bucket, it clips onto the airbucket unless yours was reassembled and you didn't notice that it was two pieces. However the intake tube portion that clips onto the GT350 air bucket was of course designed for the GT350 5.2L and not the EB / V6 / V8.
Yeah, that part just bothered me because it was a re-use from the GT350 and the solution is to cut it and fold it back. I'm familiar with the construction since I had it shipped to me and I'm the one that installed it.
Can you tell me where exactly the cut was supposed to be (and why we need it)? Because I think I may have done it wrong, my photocopy of the instructions is so dark I can't make out what the picture is supposed to be of.
I would have to disagree with what your saying.
All depending on what area you are in. I am not going to find a PP Premium for that much in NJ. Nothing less than 30k and that is after giving the salesmen a BJ in the bathroom. I am kicking myself though for not attempting to add it before I bought it.
I know the FP Tune Eco could out pace the v6 cameros and stangs, but a WRX sti ? Ok, now you are going to get me out on that road with a false sense of confidence ;)
Mine was the same way. I went to Ford Performance's web site and downloaded the color pdf which had nice resolution. Fortunately for you, now there's pdf and video. I recommend going to CJ Pony's web site you can see the PDF of Intake install and the PDF of ProCal3 Install and they have an install video at the bottom of the page. Bill makes those cuts at 1:40 in the video.
Well, blocking something or not, that intake GREATLY increase my throttle response on an otherwise unmodified car. I'm going to guess it has something to do with the adapter that goes forward having an opening 3x a big as the stock one.
Maybe we're confusing terms? When you say inlet, you're talking about the part that brings the air in from the grill right? I set the 2 side by side when I pulled the stock one out to install the FP part and the stock one is bigger. They aren't even the same shape completely, that's why it has to be trimmed. If you didn't trim it, you can still force it on there. That isn't a good thing though and didn't make the installation better. If you look at the section where Bill trims the rubber, on the stock box, there's a square piece of the grill inlet that is being blocked off if you don't trim that. Look at your stock intake if you saved it. On one end, there's a square section, that's missing on the FP inlet. The other end is more of a triangle. As far as it being 3x bigger, I think you might be talking about something else, maybe the box?
Unfortunately I don't think it will help much. I think the temperature difference is from the air drawn in at the top and driver's side. Ideally there would be none but they don't really seal to the hood and the side towards the driver's fender is a mess. Trimming the inlet part will mostly help with fitment and hopefully guide a little of that air that is blocked off into the intake box.