HO upper intakes.

[Elias]

It says it's for a 87-93 mustang

[jaywish]

That is an aftermarket unit. If the upper intake can be reversed it should basically fit.

[gadget73]

You'd need the matching lower intake to go with that. It will not fit a stock lower. Pretty sure that one reverses if its pattered on the Edelbrock Performer intake.

Honestly, there is only so much you can do with the stock motor. Beyond a mildly ported stock type lower, you're not going to gain anything. the heads and cam are restrictive enough to not take advantage of much more intake than you already have. Only reason you'd get much out of a ported lower or maybe a stock Explorer lower is because it evens out the air flow. The stock lower is not good on the outer cylinders, #5 is especially horrible. Honestly even the HO upper is not some sort of miracle cure. It helps, but it won't make the car suddenly fast with an otherwise stock engine.

[His Royal Ghostliness]

In other words, don't waste your time and money on a fancy aftermarket intake setup if you're still running the factory heads. The HO stuff does work, however, and for what Lincolmania wants for his (practically junkyard pricing) it's worth grabbing one and dropping it on. And it's a simple DIY job since you don't need to do anything with the lower intake, the upper and TB and EGR spacer is all you need to switch.

And if you don't feel like paying machine shop fees for having the Panther EGR spacer bored out to HO specs, you can use a perfectly stock HO spacer - but you'll need Lincoln Mark 7 or Ford T-birt or Mercury Cougar throttle and TV and cruise cables, and good luck finding those in a yard (and in case of the cruise cable, removing it from the donor car is a bear).

Different ways the swap can be done, depends on your time and financial situation. Yet, time is also money...

[DerekTheGreat]

...And if you don't feel like paying machine shop fees for having the Panther EGR spacer bored out to HO specs, you can use a perfectly stock HO spacer - but you'll need Lincoln Mark 7 or Ford T-birt or Mercury Cougar throttle and TV and cruise cables, and good luck finding those in a yard (and in case of the cruise cable, removing it from the donor car is a bear)...

I'm planning on using the spacer from an HO car, didn't know there were any differences beyond the diameter of the bore. Thought all the bracketry bolts up to the TB and that's why you need to swap the linkage from the LoPo to the HO TB.

[His Royal Ghostliness]

Nope, the brackets bolt to the EGR spacer. Panther has two studs coming out the side of the spacer that is opposite to the EGR valve and facing the rear of the car, HO has two threaded bosses right next to the EGR valve that accept bolts coming in from the side of the car. You either swap TB levers and bore out the Panther EGR spacer (the preferred way as it looks and fits all factory-like), or install the HO parts without any mods and realize the cables now come in from the front of the car and so you need the longer Mk7/T-bird/Cougar cables (which like I said the cruise is a mofo in the Mk7s cause you gotta take the fender off to get to it).

[gadget73]

If you know a guy with a lathe, its not a big ordeal to bore out an EGR spacer. Having done such a job on my own lathe, I can tell you this from experience. I don't have the precise numbers in front of me, but its basically adding an extra 1/4" of bore to the inside, and removing about .100 from the water side of the spacer to make sure it seals right. There is a groove in there that boring the spacer cuts into, and it causes problems if you don't face it off.

AKA, ship me a stock EGR spacer and I can make it work for you if you can't find anyone local.

[DerekTheGreat]

Thanks fellas! I would've been up feces creek had I gone to do all that only to realize that issue when it was too late. Technically is since I made the HO spacer look all purty like. Oh well. I'll dig up a LoPo one..

Thank you for offering your services Thain! No one local wants to touch anything so PM sent!

[knucklehead0202]

Last question I always thought this one was the ho intake so what's the difference from these and will it fit the Marquis

As the others mentioned, this is an aftermarket intake, likely under the moniker of pro-comp qualifier or pro-products typhoon. This is the intake I put on my other car right before it got wrecked. It is a reversible intake so it'll work with panthers, but unless you're doing a built engine, I wouldn't recommend it.

First off, the vacuum ports are WAAAAYYYYY different than a stock or Ford intake, and will require a lot of testing to find out which ports to use and have shit work right. Also, because of MUCH larger ports/plenum volume, and shorter runner length. you will completely lose low-end torque. With otherwise stock stuff it may not be as bad, but I added cylinder heads and 1.7 rockers at the same time. Turned the car into a torqueless turd.

If you plan on only mild engine mods, stick with something like a stock HO upper on your LOPO lower, or a ford GT-40/Cobra/Exploder-type intake. You'll thank me later.

[Lincolnmania]

Thanks fellas! I would've been up feces creek had I gone to do all that only to realize that issue when it was too late. Technically is since I made the HO spacer look all purty like. Oh well. I'll dig up a LoPo one..

Thank you for offering your services Thain! No one local wants to touch anything so PM sent!

we found you a cap for your throttle body.....pm me with address

[Elias]

I would really like the ho intake but I don't know where I would go to get and egr machined and shipping sucks I wish I could find one locally in Texas and us the 35$ to get it machined

[Elias]

How could I find out if it's a ho intake does it have vin or special numbers I might have found a local one

[Elias]

It has numbers in the back but can't see it really good for the pic what y'all think

[VicCrownVic]

Take that plate off the top (the one that says 5.0 Ford HO) and you should see HO cast into the intake. If you look up the part number on the underside that would also tell you.

[His Royal Ghostliness]

What this guy says - pull that flat plate that says "5.0 -Ford oval- HO" and under it right on top of the main runner you should see the "HO" casting.

Also, shipping an EGR spacer isn't a lot of money really. Just about about anyone with a lathe can bore them out, it's really no rocket science.