Custom Cold Air Intake Options

[tomazws]

This one day I was chillin' at my friend's house and found out he has an intake tube that doesn't fit his ride. He said he doesn't need it, so we decided to shove that into my car.

Well, it doesn't fit my car either, it was a S-shaped tube and we had to cut the thing up and twist'em around to fit into the car. It was like solving a puzzle or something.

So.... this is what we did:


First thing first, old airfilter box out of the way!



There were only 3 bolts holding the airfilter box down. It was really easy to uninstall.



After the fitting and cutting and twisting these 3 pieces of tubes around under the hood, we finally had it fit perfectly just behind the radiator. Then we pull it out to strap the hose clips on to tighten it. (The tube isn't long enough to go behind and under the battery to the driver-side air dam)



These are the tools we used to chop that good ol' S-shaped tube into 3 pieces. The tube now looks like it's got two wrist bands on.



The original tube came with two air hole, or whatever you call those little openings. One's with a cover, the other one's just left open. To cover the other one up, we went to Autozone or Pepboys, one of those stores, and got this little tiny cute filter. Strapped right on fitted perfectly.



It's a 3" tube so it's kinda too big for the manifold, we used an inner rubber adapter to make'em connects.



Oops, totally forgot the heat sensor that I pull out from the stock airfilter box. We left it dangly hanging swinging inside the car until someone from this forum recommanded to just drill a hole on the tube and shove it thru.



And so we took it out and did the drilling, started out with a smaller diameter size.



The rubber from the airfilter box fits perfectly, now all we have to do is connect this biggo pipe back and shove the heat sensor into this rubber.



TA DA!!!!

Like 6gc forum members said, when you start the car cold, the intake sounds like an after-toilet-flush. It sounds loud and nice when you rev it and I definitely feel the 0.5HP gain.

Thanks Chris for helping me out on this sheeit. =)

And you people in this forum for all these useful tips and tutorials. =)

[erics1one]

...and someone who take pictures along the way contributes more to the community than they think.

Glad everything worked out, looks nice.

[liquor]

Hey does it make that swoosh air sucking sound when you rev? I got a short ram and sounds more like a howling... nice but i prefer the sound of CAI

BTW thanks for the pics

[Digndoug]

I definitely feel the 0.5HP gain.

Thanks Chris for helping me out on this sheeit. =)

LMAO!!!.... That made my night..

Looks good man.

[tomazws]

Yea it does make that noise, specially when the car's accelerating above 3500RPM (BTW, I haven't NEVER got myself over 4500 RPM... I'm not sure why, but I really want this car to last as long as possible)

One thing is... The filter is RIGHT behind the radiator fan, and you know the radiator fan is blowing hot air away from the radiator..... into the filter. You could call this intake an "Hot Air Intake".

I think I'll get another aluminum pipe to extent this thing under the battery to where the driver-side front air dam is (I don't have a fog light).

[madmods]

Great post, great work, and way to save yourself 89 -230.00 bucks. Thanks for taking the pics and sharing the work. This would be good for the how to section in the forum.

[operative]

Whats the dia of the pipes?
From the looks of it, the filter is not too far from the exhaust header. Is it just sucking in hot air?