air intake

c987long · Post by **c987long** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:32 pm

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

gabrielriley · Post by **gabrielriley** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:54 pm

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.

Nutmeg · Post by **Nutmeg** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:10 pm

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.

TN.Frank · Post by **TN.Frank** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:51 pm

I did mine like this:

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.

c987long · Post by **c987long** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:02 pm

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

jckevns · Post by **jckevns** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:11 pm

http://www.modernperformance.com/produc ... a2dc017e6e

Nutmeg · Post by **Nutmeg** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:21 pm

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.

c987long · Post by **c987long** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:31 pm

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

Nutmeg · Post by **Nutmeg** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:34 pm

Well, couldn't be too difficult. Just disconnect it from the airbox or you might even have to remove it, then pull it out.

jckevns · Post by **jckevns** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:16 pm

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

Nutmeg · Post by **Nutmeg** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:21 pm

^ 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.

c987long · Post by **c987long** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:16 pm

thanks for all of the help

Wenuden · Post by **Wenuden** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:39 pm

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.

Swordfish2Cowboy · Post by **Swordfish2Cowboy** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:22 pm

You've gotta take a tire off? Jeez, mine just falls out if I take out a couple bolts.

Nutmeg · Post by **Nutmeg** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:14 am

Swordfish2Cowboy wrote:You've gotta take a tire off?

No, not likely. But you can.

deep1ca · Post by **deep1ca** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:12 am

TN.Frank wrote:I did mine like this:

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.

BlackRoseRacing · Post by **BlackRoseRacing** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:50 am

deep1ca wrote:
TN.Frank wrote:I did mine like this:

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

But after stating that, I'm running the same setup again on my AMM manifold

Just got to be a little more careful now...

deep1ca · Post by **deep1ca** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:23 am

BlackRoseRacing wrote:
deep1ca wrote:
TN.Frank wrote:I did mine like this:

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
But after stating that, I'm running the same setup again on my AMM manifold 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