Part # 555-3120
Price: $259.95

Utilizes Our New High Velocity System.
NEED COMPUTER RE-FLASH i.e. SCT Xcalibrator

Steeda.com

 

hmm so for a little more money, you could get the C&L which won't need a tune. I'm looking forward to seeing the numbers products by Steeda's though

 

I'm glad I went with MMR. Thanks for the info Brad.

 

The way that looks to me is the MAF has to sniff air out of the crack of the hood...kinda like getting a milkshake at Burger King with a flimsy straw....no thanks!

Love my MMR. I have a friend that fabs sheet metal. We are going to shield the engine heat and allow the MAF to draw air from the grille and below. (keep in mind, the stock grille has the "holes" filled in with plastic) bzzz bzzz

 

...and don't be afraid to make your own shield. Those materials can be found at home depot and even if it's not completely engine air tight, the more cold air the better.

You can always save for the "cool" shield (no pun intended) for a later time.

 

I have had the grill out numerous times when I upgraded the fogs.
There is very little room to do anything from the main grill.

The lower valance has good potential. The best would be to use the left headlamp area somehow.

With my fog to driving upgrade I am tempted to do a left side headlamp delete & put a nice feed for the CAI. I have more then enough light with the 2 driving lamps.

 

how did u get info on steeda cai ? its still not on website. i know u could have called but how did u get photo. did they say when they will post on web site?

 

I think the air comes from the same place as stock......The fender well. That shield will "Help" keep some of the hot air from getting thru the system.

 

It's on the front page now with stats!!!

http://www.steeda.com/4vmz/ms/555-3120.htm

 

I put a K&N on my '88..... I took a 3" dryer hose.... it was black rubber with wire framing, not the foil or vinyl hose, but I ran that from my lower air dam up throught the fender to the hole where the factory airbox took it's air from and pionted the hose right at the K&N..... is there any reason this can't be done with the '05? Just scoop it from the font of the car.... even if your plumbing has a ton of turns, there's going to be positive air pressure coming in from that tube, and you're engine will be able to get as much as it needs.... and it will certainly be cooler than from inside the engine bay.

 

Notice that they report the 26+ rwhp gain after the reflash. Isn't a near 23+ rwhp reported with a stock cai and a reflash with the XCalibrator? What a crock of sheeot....read between the lines. $250 bucks for a marginal gain.

I've seen a disgusting trend here. People are so hyped up about this car and are so eager to find mods that they'll pay rediculous prices for upgrades like this. And Bassani...they can kiss my **** at $550 for a friggin' axle-back system. I'll go with the $300 JBA all day. At least I can add up where they got some of the cost there... I'm just irritated at the gougers.... :bang:

 

I have the SCT tune + MMR + Cat -BAck and I gained from 232 to 270 rwhp on a Mustang Dyno.

I know for a FACT that the MMR+SCT rock. The exhaust maybe gave ne 3 hp.

-Bryan

 

I put the Bassani Axle-back ( I am a huge Bassani fan with nothing against JBA, those guys are really great), X-chamber, underdrives, Steeda cold-air on the way with charge motion plates and will be tuning it with a Diablo Predator on the dyno in January.

 

Too much Dough for too little go... I'm waiting for racing cams. Can't go wrong there. Best thing with exhaust...remove cats (if possible). I have to do the XCalibrator though, it's just too cheap to pass up 25+ at the rear wheels.

 

26-23 = HC trap removal, MMR=0?

 

see above info from me ^^^^^

 

Let me clarify something here for those thinking they are gonna get 23+rwhp on their modded '05's with the Xcalibrator...Per the gentleman that did Bryan and my tune, That # applies only to a stock setup....I went in with my modded out GT and it made 254rwhp pre-flash and was only making 263rwhp (albeit on a overheating motor) AFTER the flash...they say it would make what Bryan's made when it cooled off which is 270rwhp....even if it does make 270...it was still only a 15-16 hp gain with the tune and I only saw a guaranteed 9rwhp while I was there...These claims of 25rwhp are insanity....I told the tech, Andre Terranoza that I was very unimpressed with the 9hp I gained for the 505.00 expense (360.00 Xcalibrator, 45.00 cable, and 100.00 dyno time. His comment to me was my pre-existing mods ate up much of what would have been gained by the tune and the 25hp numbers they claim are on a stock set up only....What I took from that was that for others like me who have modded their cars already, don't expect to see any more then 9-15 hp gained for your 500+ dollar investment on the SCT tune...I haven't heard anybody else put it this way on TMS and I want to be fair and share my experience with the product....I still like the SCT product and love the idea of changing settings on the car, but for those of you who think you'll be getting another 25rwhp over and above the mods you've made and had dyno'd, you are sadly mistaken unfortunately....make sure you aren't let down.....10 hp is not a bad gain, but I expect many people would feel like me seeing 254rwhp pre-tune and only 263 on the way out after spending 505.00.....was a bit of a letdown....

 

Many of you will wonder why Bryan claimed to get 23hp out of his tune and I didn't. Reason is that when Bryan went in originally all he had done was the rear end and exhaust....He saw a nice increase on his tune and felt good, then went back after adding the intake and pulleys and felt a little underwhelmed at his gains on those parts...Seems like they sort of counterbalanced eachother...I on the other hand went in fully modded out before my first tune and saw a 21 hp gain from just my mods over and above what he saw prior to his first tune...I'd say the intake and pulleys were good for that 20hp as those were the only differences in our cars...The other 9+ came from the tune.....We came to pretty much the same #'s when all was said and done, just took different paths to reach them. Was nice to see where the hp gain really came from though. Made me realize that the tune actually didn't have quite the effect that we thought it might hp wise when all the cards were on the table...I'm speaking for Bryan here, but I'm quite sure he thought that after adding his pulleys and intake after his first tune that he would see another 20hp at his next dyno....instead he didn't see quite what he hoped for because it seems the tunehad already made what he hoped to gain....it's possible that many of you may not even need either the pulleys or the intake as the tune seems to make that hp on it's own and leaves you little room for increase with these simple mods after the fact....As the tune is necessary to make the car run better and adjust the speedo after gear changes so I'd say it's probably money well spent....One of the other two parts can be avoided and save ya some cash. I would suggest many of you pass up the pulleys and just go with the intake as you can save yourself hundreds of dollars and just about see the same power...the three parts just don't work well in conjunction with eachother in getting you nice gains it seems...

 

Would the best bang for your buck be the C&L intake + exhaust? No reflash, no warranty issues but a pretty nice power increase?

The C&L is putting out 18rwhp and 18rwtq. Plus the exhaust it could easily be 20+rwhp, 20+rwtq?? Pretty good for no reflash.

 

John, what after all this is the HP to the flywheel? What does 270hp = to the fly?