Custom Intake Setup
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Custom Intake Setup
I started out with the idea that I was only gonna remove my intake resonator box, because I heard it would give the engine a deeper sound...Oh, and it did...
Then, for the sake of completeness, I decided to fabricate a cold air intake system, incorporating the stock intake setup, and a bunch of parts from my old wrecked Sol that I found in a box, which included the stock intake from that car, and a cheap CAI filter (I had a short-ram CAI installed in that car).
So getting the resonator box out in the first place was just a bitch, but it went easy from there. the rubber tube from my old Sol's stock intake plugged quite snugly into the hole in my existing intake filter box...so i cut the tube around the midddle, and fastened the cheap air filter to the end of it, and set the whole thing up much like the Iceman intakes work...
You wouldn't even know what I did unless you took the bumper off...it looks totally stock from the top.
So whatcha all think? I spent two hours on this mod, simply for lack of anything better to spend my time doing lol.
Then, for the sake of completeness, I decided to fabricate a cold air intake system, incorporating the stock intake setup, and a bunch of parts from my old wrecked Sol that I found in a box, which included the stock intake from that car, and a cheap CAI filter (I had a short-ram CAI installed in that car).
So getting the resonator box out in the first place was just a bitch, but it went easy from there. the rubber tube from my old Sol's stock intake plugged quite snugly into the hole in my existing intake filter box...so i cut the tube around the midddle, and fastened the cheap air filter to the end of it, and set the whole thing up much like the Iceman intakes work...
You wouldn't even know what I did unless you took the bumper off...it looks totally stock from the top.
So whatcha all think? I spent two hours on this mod, simply for lack of anything better to spend my time doing lol.
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Originally posted by sxecrow
wouldnt the rubber of the hose allow heat to warm up the air, thereby making the CAI not so cold?
wouldnt the rubber of the hose allow heat to warm up the air, thereby making the CAI not so cold?
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I keep thinking of using a hole saw and making a round hole in the bumper, then using rubber tubing to go around the edge as a "trim" for it. That way it would get all the cool air it wants... Not sure if I want to hack the bumper just yet. Maybe on my beater/turbo sol... Having two kicks ass!
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Yeah, cuz filters react great to rocks and shit that falls out of trucks and anything else lucky enough to jump into the magic hole in your bumper lol.
And don't get me started on that idea in the rain!
And don't get me started on that idea in the rain!
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Originally posted by OSX2000
I'm not too worried about that...It's pulling the air in from down in the bumper, where it is much colder than where the stock intake pulls it from in the engine bay, and air flows through the tube fast enough to not be heated too much on its way, plus, I was going for a sleeper look, so if I threw in a metal pipe in place of the rubber, it would kinda ruin that...
I'm not too worried about that...It's pulling the air in from down in the bumper, where it is much colder than where the stock intake pulls it from in the engine bay, and air flows through the tube fast enough to not be heated too much on its way, plus, I was going for a sleeper look, so if I threw in a metal pipe in place of the rubber, it would kinda ruin that...