ok, so monday i bought a 4.6L gt coupe, it was pretty nice, come to realize on the way home, smoke is coming out from under the hood. seems to be spraying coolant in the engine bay. so i get home, and take a look around trying to find out what was goin on...so then my friend gets over to my house, and we both found a crack in the intake manifold...well...apparently, ford had a recall on 96-98 mustangs. the recall was for the intake manifold getting fatigue cracks in em, and eventually leaking shite all over the place...so heres my question... since walker ford wants $600 for the intake manifold, and $500 for the work. and since my car was a year over that warraty or whatever, they wouldn't do it unless i paid for it...what kind of intake manifold should i get? OEM or aftermarket? and are they hard to install? i know out of all these ford drivers...someone can help me out with some advice and info. and how much of a difference is the oem and the aftermarket parts? shit...with $1100 that could get me a nice exhaust and intake put on, but no...this shit had to break on me instead. any help would be greatly appreciated...thanks...

 

I would look into a PI head/intake combo and do the work yourself. If not take it to Fordspeed and have them do it. It will still be much cheaper than having the dealership do it.

Fordspeed - 727-539-8255 ask for Joe

 

If you dont wanna spend alot of money just get the crown vic intake, its not plastic and cheaper, or you could just drop in a carbed 302.

 

I think the number is 727-549-8255

 

If you plan on keeping the car N/A I highly recommend doing a P.I head swap it is hard to get power out of these motors with the NPI heads. If you really dont want to spend much money you can do like Road Rage said or you can even do a P.I. intake manifold with the NPI heads(just make sure you use a NPI gasket and you get a different coolant hose) and you can pick up a set P.I. cams for cheap aswell you should easily pickup 15hp with less than $250 spent.

 

Sorry bro same thing happen to me a little while ago. Hurry up and get it fixed or it can ruin a whole lot of other stuff.

I just got the stock intake again. All the after market intakes where ridiculous in price. If you order the stock intake it won't crack again. They fixed the problem.

For the best price buy the parts yourself and bring it to a mechanic.

 

well my friends dad is gonna look for a good intake manifold for me. would the part the crack was on be the upper or lower intake manifold? it's right behind the alternator...if that helps any

 

DOh! I was going by memory. Apprently it ain't worth shit.

 

So you are saying it has not been taking in for the recall intake fix? But the car is over the warrenty and they will not replace it? If that is the case that bullshit because same thing happen to a friend of mine in the same situation......a recall is a recall, regardless if the warrenty is up. They should fix at no charge if it has yet to be fixed by the recall. Sounds like there are trying to srcew you man. I would call as many ford dealers as you can and find out the iggy.

 

I have a 98 intake off of my original engine. PM me if you want to go back stock.