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air intake

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:32 pm
by c987long
im throwing around the idea of upgrading my air intake, i was thinking about replacing the whole air box and the other unknown box which i have no idea what it is, but it is inside the front bumper under the driverside headlight.
any questions let me know

i had to leave

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:54 pm
by gabrielriley
Buy a cool air intake. You can buy them prefabed for your car. You may what to ask around on the forum and get some input on which ones very one seems to like. There are several at different price ranges.

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:10 pm
by Nutmeg
Remove the resonator pipe from (the part in the bumper you are talking about), get a drop in filter (K&N), and take the lid off the box. You'll have your sound that way, and your minimal performance gains.

I have a CAI on my car, yeah it looks cool, and sounds an inkling beefier, but other than that, you won't gain much. All up to you. :thumbup:

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:51 pm
by TN.Frank
I did mine like this:
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No fuss, no muss, only had to make up a braket to mount the TB out of a piece of aluminum stock and drill a hole in the top of the K&N drop in for the air temp sensor. It gets plenty of cool air from under the car where the stock air box used to sit and I've still got the ram air set-up in place to feed it more air.

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:02 pm
by c987long
this is what i am talking about, used it off a post here
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/ ... 0_1235.jpg
see how the intake bends down into the front bumper

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:11 pm
by jckevns

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:21 pm
by Nutmeg
c987long wrote:this is what i am talking about, used it off a post here
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/ ... 0_1235.jpg
see how the intake bends down into the front bumper
Yes, that is a cold air intake- the same one I have. However, refer to my post above.

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:31 pm
by c987long
that was what i was looking for, but i still cant figure how to get the sir box in the bumper out. i have red throught all of the how to threads and got nothing..
little help

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:34 pm
by Nutmeg
Well, couldn't be too difficult. Just disconnect it from the airbox or you might even have to remove it, then pull it out.

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:16 pm
by jckevns
its easier if you jack the front of the car up and remove the front driver side tire and pull it out from the bottom

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:21 pm
by Nutmeg
^ That's actually probably a good idea. I guess I took mine out that way when putting in the CAI, I just don't remember.

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:16 pm
by c987long
thanks for all of the help :rockon:

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:39 pm
by Wenuden
Nutmeg wrote:Remove the resonator pipe from (the part in the bumper you are talking about), get a drop in filter (K&N), and take the lid off the box. You'll have your sound that way, and your minimal performance gains.

I have a CAI on my car, yeah it looks cool, and sounds an inkling beefier, but other than that, you won't gain much. All up to you. :thumbup:
:withstupid:

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:22 pm
by Swordfish2Cowboy
You've gotta take a tire off? Jeez, mine just falls out if I take out a couple bolts.

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:14 am
by Nutmeg
Swordfish2Cowboy wrote:You've gotta take a tire off?
No, not likely. But you can.

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:12 am
by deep1ca
TN.Frank wrote:I did mine like this:
Image
No fuss, no muss, only had to make up a braket to mount the TB out of a piece of aluminum stock and drill a hole in the top of the K&N drop in for the air temp sensor. It gets plenty of cool air from under the car where the stock air box used to sit and I've still got the ram air set-up in place to feed it more air.
this is what I did, car sound awesome at high rpms and feels a tiny bit more responsive too.

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:50 am
by BlackRoseRacing
deep1ca wrote:
TN.Frank wrote:I did mine like this:
Image
No fuss, no muss, only had to make up a braket to mount the TB out of a piece of aluminum stock and drill a hole in the top of the K&N drop in for the air temp sensor. It gets plenty of cool air from under the car where the stock air box used to sit and I've still got the ram air set-up in place to feed it more air.
this is what I did, car sound awesome at high rpms and feels a tiny bit more responsive too.
That's the setup I "HAD" also, does not work to well though if you accidentally hit a water puddle in torrential rains and hydrolock the engine :roll:
But after stating that, I'm running the same setup again on my AMM manifold :lol: Just got to be a little more careful now...

Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:23 am
by deep1ca
BlackRoseRacing wrote:
deep1ca wrote:
TN.Frank wrote:I did mine like this:
Image
No fuss, no muss, only had to make up a braket to mount the TB out of a piece of aluminum stock and drill a hole in the top of the K&N drop in for the air temp sensor. It gets plenty of cool air from under the car where the stock air box used to sit and I've still got the ram air set-up in place to feed it more air.
this is what I did, car sound awesome at high rpms and feels a tiny bit more responsive too.
That's the setup I "HAD" also, does not work to well though if you accidentally hit a water puddle in torrential rains and hydrolock the engine :roll:
But after stating that, I'm running the same setup again on my AMM manifold :lol: Just got to be a little more careful now...
Thats exactly what i'm worried about. I want to fabricate some sort o splash gaurd/shield