i was wondering what the air silencer on my 93 mark viii looked like so i can take it off... lol
any help would be great
thanks in advance

http://www.lincolnsonline.com/tech/00024.html

Good article planning on doing it to mine...

The 93 cars actually had an inferior air tube with little indentations in it, you cans till delet the silencer, but the tube isn't as good as a 94-96 one.

I drilled out my airbox and removed the silencer in my 98 LSC and it seemed to breath a little better. i had already had the mufflers straight piped so i didnt notice it being any louder. but it had some weight to it. it was worth it in my opinion.

I drilled out my airbox and removed the silencer in my 98 LSC and it seemed to breath a little better. i had already had the mufflers straight piped so i didnt notice it being any louder. but it had some weight to it. it was worth it in my opinion.

Ditto - added a K&N too - didn't feel any real HP difference (under 15HP you would not really feel anyway) but it did gain a deeper growl. Cheap and easy mod so well worth it.

Don't drill the air box, just mixes warm engine air with air from fenderwell. Rip out the intake silencer from under the fenderwell.

Don't drill the air box, just mixes warm engine air with air from fenderwell. Rip out the intake silencer from under the fenderwell.
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Don't drill the air box, just mixes warm engine air with air from fenderwell. Rip out the intake silencer from under the fenderwell.

but isnt that basically the air you would be sending through the filter if you had a cone setup? unless you had some custom CAI.

I do agree witht the air being warmer but i also agree with the consept more is better.

Yea but the stock panel filter outflow the maximum the engine can pull in. The filter is in no means the bottleneck, drilling the holes isn't going to bring in more air, it just changes where the air gets sucked in from.

Yea but the stock panel filter outflow the maximum the engine can pull in. The filter is in no means the bottleneck, drilling the holes isn't going to bring in more air, it just changes where the air gets sucked in from.

i agree ,

i once tried blocking off my air intake as much as i could

i was blown away when i blocked off over half the air filter and could not tell a seat of the pants difference.

i later blocked it all the way down to an opening the size of a QUARTER !! and the car still ran like it had 170-180 hp.i could not believe how little air i was letting in and yet how well the engine pulled.


by the way,this was my attempt at increasing fuel mileage,i didnt think it would work,but i wanted to try it because i read stories of people putting in a clean air filter and losing mpg.

the only mpg increase i got was because if i was tromping on the gas a lot i wasnt actually using as much gas or getting as much hp :(

but in normal (abnormal?) light throttle i didnt notice any difference as i guess i was using the same small amount of air as stock.

ive got an aftermarket maf with the cone- unfortunately cold air boxes are impossible to find for these cars... You can really tell when it heats up under taht hood. is it possible to use my maf with the stock box? i still have the factory box with a K&n panel.

Geno sells an icebox, I just don't know if he he has any, because I need one for my 93 with the cone filter.

So that ice box actually does something.

Lol. Yeah it seperates the engine compartment from your cone filter. I didn't want the trouble so I'm still on the stock air box., silencer removed.

And I think the '93 dimpled intakes are supposed to be the better flowing ones, not the other way around. I could very well be wrong though.

And I think the '93 dimpled intakes are supposed to be the better flowing ones, not the other way around. I could very well be wrong though.

Please explain. I have both and was gonna substitute the 93 for the 94 as the 94 is completely open inside as opposed to the dimpled one which effectively splits the intake path into 2 halves.

I was under the impression that the dimpled one was better for noise suppression but ultimately not as good flowing.

Dimmpled is worse because it creates turbulant air. optimal its laminar flowing air. it uses alot less space.

If you look at it in a fluid dynamic way it makes sense.