How Much HP Are These Mods Good For..?

Hey guys, i got a completely stock 4.6 V8 95 tbird.

I'm gonna take out the air silencer, and then make a custom intake. It's gonna be basically a long elbow pipe in place of the stock air filter housing, this will be run down to the fender wall. The filter i'm gonna use is a universal cone filter from K&N. I'm gonna fabricate a custom shield to scoop up alot of air towards the filter (no more warm engine air) yet keeping out rocks and stuff. I'm gonna keep the stock intake housing on the engine cause i really don't think a pipe would be any more beneficial in that area, being that the intake housing is very wide.

I'm gonna keep the stock mass air flow sensor and throttle body also.

The next thing is chopped off mufflers, those will go bye bye, and be replaced with chrome straightpipe the same size as the exhaust pipes.

PS, i'm keeping all the cats, just taking out the mufflers to get a more aggresive sound.. It sounds good, already heard it on another bird. The engine is 205BHP, and 265 lb-ft torque.. I'm guessing maybe 10 more RWHP...?

is there any problem with water if you build that custom ram air? What if its raining and you are behind somebody and theres all kinds of water going into your cone filter?

Very true rick, i thought of that.. Some way i'm gonna find a way to make water not a problem.

if you find a way, let me know. What do they do about that on cars that come with ram air?

I'd venture to say 2hp, 5 tops. Unless you open up the rest of the intake and the exhaust, you won't see a whole lot.

Yeah, flewthecoupe is right. Probably not much difference that you could FEEL, but plenty you could HEAR.