Picture 1 shows 3 of these pieces plus a reducer (also needed).

Here we go! 
 

Remove the airbox/silencer/filter from your car (for room to work).  On the Cobra you also need to remove your Strut Tower Brace (if you have one), and remove the MAF and inlet tube leading to your throttle body.
 

Cut back the factory air silencer about 6 inches from the snorkel end (see picture 2) . this will make the diameter large enough to fit over the 4" end of the 5 X 4 reducer (it stretches - make it tight).  Tony and I used a hacksaw.  Cut the snorkel approximately where the picture has the white line.

The aluminum 4" end of the 5 X4 reducer should be bent slightly in an oval shape to fit inside the oval air silencer hole. Make sure to cut the hole so that it is parallel to the line of the fender.  You may have to install the silencer and mark it to be sure.  Once it is trimmed to the right size, attach it to the 4” end of the reducer.  Remember that the snorkel goes over-top of the 4” end of the reducer, not the other way around.  Now that you have it fitting together perfectly, take the snorkel back off from the reducer and set it aside for later. 
 

Now from under the car, stick this entire piece up the fender (4” end first) and into the hole leading into the engine compartment (where the snorkel used to go), shaping the pipe as you go will help here.  Also, get a friend to help from above.  This step is not that difficult on the GT, but it is EXTREMELY difficult on the Cobra because there is a unit called an “Air-box” that is smack dab in the middle of where you want to go, mounted at the top of the fender.  It has a couple of hoses coming out of it that feed the catalytic converters on start-up.  It is very tough to get the ducting past this unit, but since I did it (all by myself) I’m sure anyone else can too.  Patience helps big time!  Gee, didn’t SVT know we wanted to put 5” ducting in there??? LOL.  The next picture illustrates basically how the ducting will route itself through the fender.  You won’t have the large reducer on the bottom end yet, and if you are only doing cold air, this piece will obviously be much shorter.

Re-attach the silencer to the airbox (saliva helps) and go ahead and re-install the filter/airbox/silencer. Because of the extra stiffness and lack of flexibility, I couldn’t reconnect the airbox to the fender wall using the supplied bolt,  in fact I cut the side attachment off with the hacksaw along with the foot on the bottom of the airbox - I needed the room.  You may get lucky and not have to do this.  On the GT you are done under the hood, on the Cobra you now need to reconnect the MAF and then lastly the inlet tube to the throttle body.  Don’t forget to reconnect the 2 sensor switches at the MAF, which you had to disconnect to remove the inlet tube.  If you are doing the cold-air induction only, you are done (Just aim the tube forward & down.) and you can now relax and go for a drive (don’t forget to lower your car first, hehe).
 

Remove the fog-light.
 

Hold up the last piece of 5” ducting and the 6 X 5 reducer and see how well it fits.  Once it seems to be fitting perfectly than take it back off and screw the 2 pieces together.  On the Cobra you want it to fit over top of the lip of the fog-light hole.  You can adjust the length of this piece if it is too long by prying out sections of the 5” ducting.  You will have to pull really hard (close to the rivets) but they WILL come apart.  Don’t install this piece yet.
 

Now go back under the car and attach the last piece.  Now you need to secure it with screws (this is tricky since the rest is already installed - being a contortionist will help;-).  On the cobra you now need to use the cylindrical clamp and tighten it up over the screen/duct/lip/  area.  I pulled the other fog-light also and installed the screen so that they would match!

Hey guess what…..you’re done.

Total installation time (not including shopping) is about 2 hours on the GT and a couple more than that on the Cobra!   There is no question it pulls much harder than before, and it even sounds better.  Both Tony and I have seen improvements of approximately 3/10ths in the ¼ and about 1 mph (not bad for $20 Eh).  If you have any questions, e-mail me at Scott.Winger@sympatico.ca and I'll be glad to help.

I took this setup one step further on my Cobra.  Since I lost the fog light I moved them both to the spoiler.  Each one is dead center on each side of the license plate and just below (see picture 6).  It now has the “Stocker” look.  Picture 7 is owned by Dennis who followed my “Fog-light re-location” notes as well as installing the ram air as outlined.  It looks amazing without the front plate (no choice in Canada).

The original wiring also reached to the new location which was a bonus.  What is even better is that now the fog lights actually work!  I guess because they are away from the headlights they aren’t getting lost in the rays. The GT spoiler unfortunately  isn’t  big enough to do this, so Tony got some after-market bulbs and used them instead.  If you want the written instructions for the “Fog-light re-location” for the Cobra, e-mail me and I’ll send you the text in Word format.

Scott Winger (§cott 96Çobra)