Quick disclaimer. This DIY is for anyone who moderatly understands. True beginners CAUTION!

All right, I am apologizing for the size of the pics but I choose not to resize so there is more detail. The Injen instructions royally sucked ass . I've never done this but said what the heck and just went at it. It was pretty easy as long as you have basic tools and know how.

Step 1.
Let the engine cool down cause you are going to get your hands dirty and when you relocate a hose, there you will lose a bit of coolant.

Pull out the sensor and one hose from stock intake. Unclamp the rubber tube from the throttle body.

Undo the two nuts that are holding down the airbox.

 

Once you remove all the fittings holding the stock box on, just carefully wiggle and nudge it out. On the bottom of the airbox is just a compression rubber fitting that will just pry out. Just be careful.

Here is where you need to look at my ghetto diagram. You have to relocate one of the lines b/c you are going to remove the entire section in yellow. Look at the red circles. That is where you unclamp things. Follow the blue arrow, that is where you are going to relocate the hose to. When you relocate, you'll lose a bit of coolant, that is why you need a cold engine.

At this point that hose assembly is totally removed from the car.

See Diagram.

 

Here is the compartment with the entire box out of the car.

You should wipe down the department at this time. It will be easiest at this time.

 

Now with everything cleaned up a bit, attach the rubber adapter on the throttle body. Don't forget to attach the clamps. Tighten it down.

Put the filter on the intake pipe and clamp that down.

Screw the rubber vibration adapter in one of the holes left by the stock air box screw.

Then wiggle the intake pipe into the rubber adapter and tighten.

Place the enclosed rubber hose from the engine to the intake. Put in the rubber adapter plug into the intake pipe and insert the sensor.

 

Tighten everything down and step back and admire your handy work. I wiped everything down again before I started her up. I didn't want any of my oils messing up the finish. After that, I ended up taking off the bumper and taking out the box behind the bumper. PM me if you want to know how. It is really ez if you just look at it.

 

Here is the complete stock intake. To the left is the airbox with the filter in it and to the left is the box that is found behind the bumper. Some say you don't need to take the bumper off to get it out, but I really don't see how. Besides, it was a lot easier with the bumper off.

 

Here is Injen's Carb Plaque in case you wondered where they placed it.

I'm not really liking the blue filter, but it works for now.

There is nothing that I really dislike about this setup. It sounds awesome! It kinda sounds like a vaccum cleaner at idle with the hood up. Driving noise only gets loud when you step on the gas. If you are cruising, you prob wouldn't even know you had an intake. I am very happy about it and even more so that I figured it out myself. I would encourage any beginner to learn from this and do it yourself!

Please leave me any comments on this post. If you have a question, PM me. Ok, I'm going driving now!

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Thanks for showing the DIY.
I do have one question for you. The sensor that you took out from the assembly, what is that for?

 

That is the MAF (mass air flow) sensor