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You can do this with your stock air tube as well. Simply use a dremel tool to cut off the sound/muffler box. Use fiberglass to cover the hole, sand and paint the tube black using krylon fusion paint (for plastics). Keep the stock filter box, or rplace it with a cone filter.

Thread like this are great! You do the work yourself, and save a ton of coin. And the flow characteristics are plenty for the V6, provided you don't go the route of supercharging.

 

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This arrangement looks great. Has anyone dyno'd it? I'd hate to read that while it looks great that it might have hurt performance, as it's drawing warm engine air rather than cool air that the stock setup is producing.

 

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Mist...that's why some put a catch can inline with the passenger side setup. Keeps this oil mist from contaminating the intake, whis is where Ford routes the tube.

 

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There is a PCV valve in the head cover; as member ronnie has pointed out, the large 3 manufacturers got a PCV valve "certified" to use as a crankcase ventilation system a long time ago. It allows the gases from ring blowby to venilate through this valve, and back into the intake to be reburned. It also allows oil mist, which over time, can get onto the backsides of the valves, causing poor performance. I never thought much about this until I made a catch can. I now empty about a teaspoon of oil out of it every 3 to 4 weeks.

PCV Looks like this:

 

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You made a catch can? Can u show pics and possible items used to make it?

Here's a picture of it on a thread I started a few months back:

http://www.mustangevolution.com/forum/f356/t323855/

I used the stock connectors from the tube that is already there (on right/passenger side), then used the stock tubes right angles (already molded) to connect to the barbed brass connectors that I screwed into the water catch bottle (bought at Lowes) used for air compressors).

 

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I have put well over 15K on this home made unit. No distortion, melting, or disfigurement. The unit is far enough away from the exhaust (as the picture shows, in the same location as the stock tube it replaces).

Road trips? I do them three times a week: Daytona/Orlando to Tampa, three round trips a week. I average 600 miles per week on my Mustang. Blew the 36K warranty long ago!