If so please tell us how difficult it was to do, how much it cost all together, and most importantly of all, please post some pics of it! i want to turn my short ram into an cold air extention! pleease help
its easy. i did it, well, actualy i haven’t finished it yet, i’m too lazy to put it on, especially because its cold now.
in the teg tips it says buy the mandrel bent piping—this is what i did. but i suggest you do it a different way.
go on ebay and buy a second intake. I’m not sure what car’s intake you will need, you may want to ask E-DA9, i believe he made his cai from two intakes instead of one intake and a piece of piping. You can pick up an intake from ebay for under $45 shipped. This is a little bit more than what the mandrel bent piping is----but its already polished so it’ll match your intake without any work, and you have an extra filter which you can use or sell to make some money back.
the actual process of putting it together and doing the cutting and what not is very easy.
yeah i did it, it cost me 35 bucks for the piping bent. i got it from an exhaust shop. and i bought a rubber coupler from home depot for 12 bucks. for a total of 47 bucks taxes in, CANADIAN dollars too.
then i just had to both ends of the pipe so it was the desired length.
it only tok me like 30 minutes including cutting… and after wards i noticed a little bit of gains. just a little more pull on the top end. and a little more noise too.
just a hint, you may want to weld some brackets to the side of the pipe so it doesnt sit so far down and strain other parts of the intake system.
i took the pipe off the car for the winter, but if you want a pic of the final outcome, send me an email and i will try and get you one.
I did my own version. I just left the stock intake hose from TB to battery and plugged the location where the resanator was near the TB. Then ran rigid alluminum ducting for clothes dryers that I bought at sears to where the resantor was. Then I just put a K&N filter with a 3" opening on the end of it. I used a 3"rubber coupling in the sears plumbing dept to mate the ducting to the stock intake.
Can you post a pic? i’m interested as well.
thanks for the info guys, i guess there is many ways to do the custom CAI. But wut i’m worried about is it possible for water to get into the airfilter? the air filter goes were the resonator used to be right??
thanks again for the tips guys
It’s possible (but rare) that water will be sucked into the intake. That is why AEM has the by-pass thing for their cai. Just make sure your fender and splash guards have no holes. And avoid deep puddles.
don’t worry about water. chances are that if you are driving your car through a puddle that big then you deserve to get hydrolock.
you have to completely submerge the filter, plus its gotta take a long time for the water to actually fill the bumper—you’d either have to drive through a VERY long and VERY deep puddle, or drive through a VERY deep puddle, extremely slowly.
basically, don’t stress.
thanks alot guys you all helped me out alot =o)