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Old Jan 28, 2014 | 09:28 PM
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Have any of you foxbody lsx guys made a cold air intake for your swap
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Have any of you foxbody lsx guys made a cold air intake for your swap
Does a hole cut in the hood to clear a 14" round air cleaner on top of a 670 CFM Holley count?
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I did, ran a tube to passenger fender. Made a plate to cover the factory hole. The mass air meter and filter were in the fender, check my photobucket. I may still have a couple of the cover plates left over.
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only pics I had on my work computer, but you get the idea..
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5.0 lsx that is a really really nice neat and clean set up it would like to see more pics
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thank you, its come a long way over the last 5-6 years, started w a 5.0 5speed, went turbo, then ls1/t56, built that, blew it up, now im just finishing up a new 418ci, 4l80e swap and shaved the engine bay finally...
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Where did you relocate the coils too?
mounted on the kmember, wires run up the block and 90* plug ends
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mounted on the kmember, wires run up the block and 90* plug ends
Any pics
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not directly, but you can see on the passenger side, I mounted them on the forward part of the kmember right next to where the motor mount bolt goes through, 4 on each side
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Hey 5.0 LsX I love that engine bay. I hope mine turns out that good, how long did it take you to fill in all those holes ?
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I have a cold air tube for a chevy truck on mine. works great
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Hey 5.0 LsX I love that engine bay. I hope mine turns out that good, how long did it take you to fill in all those holes ?

thank you. a couple weeks, hr or two after work each day. defiantly not easy work but you can see what i had to work with beore
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