How Much Horse Power?
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How Much Horse Power?
Hey Guys, I Just Purchased A Borla Atak CatBack Duel Exhaust and an AFE power Cold Air Intake, I Was Wondering How Much Horse Power My 2014 F150 FX4 5.0 will be Pushing With These Enhancements ?
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Those add ons wont make much difference in hp from stock, it's still going to be right at 360hp. Put a custom tune on it and boost it to 390ish hp.
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Konvictking780 - Hey Guys, I Just Purchased A Borla Atak CatBack Duel Exhaust and an AFE power Cold Air Intake, I Was Wondering How Much Horse Power My 2014 F150 FX4 5.0 will be Pushing With These Enhancements ?
Do it for the sound or do it for the cosmetics.
Do it for any other reason and you're wasting your $$$$$.
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Troponin - Even if those mods did do anything, it would have to be coupled with a tune anyway. Modern vehicles gain little, and sometimes even LOSE power, if you don't add more fuel with the increased air flow.
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OEM, stock air intake .....
< /soapbox >- already CAI.
. - CFM exceeds engine requirements/needs. *UNLESS über engine modifications are done.
. - no contaminating the MAF sensor with oil. *Which reduces performance and MPG.
. - there are NO performance and/or MPG gains with aftermarket air intake systems. *If you're looking for performance and/or possible MPG gains, put your $$$$$ towards a tuner+tune(s).
- the engine bay cosmetics.
. - the increase in growl.
Do it for any other reason and you're wasting your $$$$$
- increases the likelihood of oil contaminating the MAF sensor. *Over time even minute oil contamination decreases power and MPG. When it's REALLY EXCESSIVE it will be intuitively obvious.
. - any increase in CFM comes at the expense of filtration.
. - cleaning is a PITA. *And, Yes, I've done it on MAS equipped vehicles.
. - Motorcraft, OEM air filters ...
- meets|exceeds engine air intake CFM requirements.
- good for 30,000+ miles (depending upon conditions).
- ABSOLUTELY NO possibility of MAF sensor oil contamination.
- dispose and replace maintenance.
Never understood the fascination in removing/replacing a perfectly good factory, free-flowing (resonator -AND- muffler are straight-thru), stainless steel exhaust system with an after-market. 
*resonator
There are little (if any) to no performance gains. UNLESS ... You opt for mod'ing the cylinder heads, or go forced induction, or other high $$$$$ engine modifications. Ya I know what about with a tune? 99.9% of the resulting performance gains are the result of "the tune" with the exhaust change contribution minimal to none. *And a dyno' trumps a mail-order.
If you're doing it for the sound ... Remove the OEM muffler and install a stainless steel performance muffler that is the same length or is attached using stainless steel tubing. NEVER replace with aluminized counterparts when you start-out with stainless steel.
Anyway ... That's my opinion(s). And I'm unanimous on that. *resonator
If you're doing it for the sound ... Remove the OEM muffler and install a stainless steel performance muffler that is the same length or is attached using stainless steel tubing. NEVER replace with aluminized counterparts when you start-out with stainless steel.
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Joe is 100% dead on, do it for the sound and looks, that's about all your going to get. When I put a Roush exhaust on mine, my performance and mileage suffered, [and so did my dogs and mine ears].
Put a SCTX4 tuner on, and regained everything plus what I had lost, except for hearing.
In my sig, you can see what I have, I can honestly say the only upgrade that helped was the tuner. The CAI and Borla are strictly grin factor.
Put a SCTX4 tuner on, and regained everything plus what I had lost, except for hearing.
In my sig, you can see what I have, I can honestly say the only upgrade that helped was the tuner. The CAI and Borla are strictly grin factor.
