2.0T Cold Air Intake

[chris_lulgjuraj]

can anyone tell me the best air intake i can get for a 2021 stinger 2.0??

 

[RM7]

Unless you are putting a bigger turbo on a car, the factory intake is usually going to work the best. Aftermarket intakes "work" by removing the factory silencing and allowing more engine noise or hearing the BOV/recirc. 99% of people think more noise=more power (K&N). If gaining HP was that easy, they would have done it from the factory. Unless you are dramatically increasing airflow in some other way, which requires a lot of other supporting mods, it almost never makes sense to put on an aftermarket intake. The SPT one on my subaru was basically a "hot air intake" any time you weren't moving fast, sucking hotter air than the normal intake would have. Turbo cars especially don't really benefit from an intake due to all the restrictions to airflow (tubing corners and pathways), their operation with the turbo is inherently different in this sense than a NA car where you are trying to streamline the flow in the intake and manifold. The exhaust pressurizing the intake charge makes up for this and removing a little bit of distance/bends ends up not being significant overall. The bigger turbo setups that have to flow more air need a larger intake. The way it worked with the other turbo cars I had was, downpipe first, then turbo-back exhaust, then turbo+supporting mods like intercooler, injectors, pump and intake, then headers or manifold.

So IME doing this with other cars, an intake is one of the last things to consider. If you were putting on a different/modified with supported mods, then yeah, intake.