Finished my Cold air intake
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Finished my Cold air intake
Well its not the greatest. but i can deffinatly feel a difference. cost me $20 for the tubing at autozone and a few minutes for removing the washer fluid tank. And a few more minutes for makeing a 3 inch hole
Last edited by 86GXL; 05-04-05 at 06:09 PM.
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That's not a true CAI, you're going to get a bunch of hot engine bay air still and that tiny duct really wont be supplying much air. Now if you enclosed the duct and filter entirely in a box, that'd be different, but right now it's very similar to just a cone filter in the engine bay.
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1.3L is not that small
Originally Posted by staticguitar313
congradulations you did a CAI the right way, props, nice low budget upgrade, thank you so much for not putting the air cleaner down in front of the wheel like an idiot, lol
and why is that stupid? why do idiots put it down there? you need to elaborate why this is "stupid" because alot of us think opposite ... im interested in what you have to say
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Originally Posted by staticguitar313
congradulations you did a CAI the right way, props, nice low budget upgrade, thank you so much for not putting the air cleaner down in front of the wheel like an idiot, lol
I'm curious as well as to what you mean.
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Originally Posted by 86GXL
i'll be puttin in in front of the wheel when i'm at the track. But it gets WAY to dirty being down there for daily driving.
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1.3L is not that small
Originally Posted by dDuB
4k miles with mine right behind the headlight motor, wheel still blocked by the wheel well lining so not much gets kicked up, filter still perfectly clean. It's all about where you place it, and how high up you go to keep it clean.
exactly what he said... i put several thousand miles on mine with no problems.. just routine k&n cleaning and oiling..... again like i say on several other topics, unless you have personal exp then dont make any comments, and if you do have personal exp then make sure you even built it right... like ddub said you need to replace all the plastic linings under the car after installing this and viola no dirt can get up in there from the road
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You should have done what I did with mine. Same concept except the filter sits where the washerfluid tank is and a aluminum 90 will connect it to the afm. Thats the coldest air you can get.
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If the CAI box is ventilated well enough and sealed from the rest of the engine bay I don't see why it wouldn't be getting just as cold air as if it's in front of the wheel. Even if it is colder by 10 degrees or something like that, then whoop-dee-doo, an extra .25 HP! I'd rather have my CAI in the engine bay and know that it fares a much better chance of survival than in front of the wheel, especially in rain, dirt roads (still driving on dirt roads in the year 2005, jeez), etc.
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since im not the body fabrication type of guy, is there any companys that pre-make those headlight covers, or is there anyone that could make one for me for a nominal fee.
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Originally Posted by 3rdgenricereater
where can those vented headlight covers be purchased?
$89us
Been meaning to get one of those......
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wow great that cold air i bet does next to nothing..
ive had my intake behine the passenger side gof light for a long long time with no problems and the filter was no even that dirty after i took it off after 6 months of driving.
i have it inside the engine bay for now ill i can build better piping
ive had my intake behine the passenger side gof light for a long long time with no problems and the filter was no even that dirty after i took it off after 6 months of driving.
i have it inside the engine bay for now ill i can build better piping
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Has anyone ever built a sealed box? I have a hole cut right now and am cutting up a spare brake duct to route air up to the intake and was gonna build a two-walled box that just used the hood to seal on the top.
I was thinking a sealed box with aluminum covering the top would be a better idea as long as the pipe below (mine will be 3") is large enough to allow enough air volume to come through and not choke my poor engine.
I was thinking a sealed box with aluminum covering the top would be a better idea as long as the pipe below (mine will be 3") is large enough to allow enough air volume to come through and not choke my poor engine.
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well what if its hot out and humid? its not TRUE cold air. , and yes every one that i have seen(i havent done)has had there engine die or just cut out real bad from the water issue,dirt no(kits for there car). so thats why i made a sealed box(vented out side of course )and have my nice little alum. CO2 bottle hooked to a solinoid(with a rpm switch, duhh) and at 3000rpm wahla regulated(15psi) CO2 at a constant COLD AIR, now thats tru CAI , its an N/A and is torn down now to put a turbo on,i just bought the parts this week so hopfully it will be done soon.,but after i put the IC in front im guna tap off the same line and make a halo ring that mounts to the IC,so that indeed will be tru cold air too. oh and by the way i do have a normal switch between the rpm switch for shut off, other wise id be spending more on CO2 than gas.
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Originally Posted by beefhole
Even if it's hot and humid outside, it's still cooler than the air under your hood
Here's another good question to throw out there related to this topic.
I have a shiny aluminum 3" pipe sitting here from a Prelude (rice kit, should give me +20hp vtec power ) and was thinking of chopping it off to fit and get some of those home depot 3" rubber pipe fittings (like the IC guys use) and connect it between the MAF and throttle body.
The only problem is that it won't have a nipple for the BAC's air intake thus robbing me of proper BAC function (it actually does work on my car!). I do have a little air filter that used to be on my air pump before that got yanked, so I was thinking of putting that on the end of the metal pipe that runs behind the UIM and feeds fresh air to the BAC. Any feedback on that idea. Good, or retarded? Keep in mind that this home-boy doesn't have any welding skills.
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1.3L is not that small
Originally Posted by 88t2romad
another reason you dont put in front of the wheel is so dirt and water ans **** doesnt get flung onto it
wtf are you talking about... do you even have a clue? look at the wheel and where the filter sits when you do this mod... there is no way for dirt or water to get "flung" on to the filter.... man when are people going to realize that your motor doesnt suck so much air it will vaccum up water..... ****.... take a glass of water and hold it right under the intake or on it ..... how much water are you missing after that? NONE because the motor isnt a wet/dry vaccum
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Originally Posted by 86GXL
Well its not the greatest. but i can deffinatly feel a difference. cost me $20 for the tubing at autozone and a few minutes for removing the washer fluid tank. And a few more minutes for makeing a 3 inch hole
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That setup will be fine - once you build a shield or box around the filter. You have a source of cold air - not you just need to stop the hot air from easily reaching the intake.
And to address the filter location issue that has sprouted (as it ALWAYS does in these threads) I am going to quote myself from another almost identical thread:
And to address the filter location issue that has sprouted (as it ALWAYS does in these threads) I am going to quote myself from another almost identical thread:
Originally Posted by Nick86
It also makes me smile when everyone cries "Hydrolock" every time there is a thread where someone puts a filter in this location. [out infront of the wheel] The chances of inhaling enough water to even get as far as the TB are pretty slim. Personally I'd be more concerned with the efficiancy of a wet filter eliment. A wet filter will flow less air - in effect negating all the gains you got by making a CAI in the first place.