Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: SilverFusion2010
My 94 Taurus pulled air from inside the fender.
The snorkel as you call it is only a couple inches long, doesn't actually hook up to anything. It really is pulling air from inside the engine bay. There's a six inch flanged tube that sticks out toward the fender well but it stops short of actually tying in to pull fresh air.
I don't know if you looked at the steeda part or not but if you didn't please take a look. It seals against the underside of the hood and is shaped to prevent heated air from the engine from getting into the intake.
Yes, I looked at it. It seals at the top, which causes it to pull from beside and below, below being where the stock airbox pulls from unless I'm missing something here? It sits in the same spot behind the headlight but in an open element configuration with a baffle to prevent it from being exposed to fan wash and engine bay air at the top, which in turn makes it draw from below and the other side, which is from the same location that the factory airbox plumbing pulls from.
I just watched this video, which, if you skip ahead to about the 2:00 minute mark, he starts pulling out the stock airbox with the long snorkel on it that I spoke of. As far as I'm aware the 2010 and 2011 3.0L are identical (video is a 2011), and he links to the same CAI that you did
It strikes me as a monumental waste of money, however the money is yours to waste, so I won't take up any more of your time on this.
Yes that is the same air box and snorkel configuration. It does not seal to the fender well. There are no factory restriction tubes in the setup that I have been able to find. I have had the air box out in multiple occasions working on mounts and once to work on a headlight.
Ford did a good job, it's not a flow problem I'm trying to correct. I'm trying to lower the ACT and replace the intake assy. My heimholz resonator box has dry rotted and split and is currently being held together with duct tape.
Anyway at this point I'll call steeda and have a conversation about filter media with them. To those who actually answered my two questions in OP I thank you.