Finally Getting Around to Re-routing my intake infront of the battery..
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Finally Getting Around to Re-routing my intake infront of the battery..
Well after thinking about this task for a while i finally decided what iw as going to do to get a shorter intake to run infront of the battery instead of behind it... What i did was first take out the battery and unhook the fuse box from the battery box mount... then i cut some of the stock zip ties that were holding the wiring to the car so that the wires would stretch a little further then before.... I then moved and turned the battery box slightly and closer to the wheelwell as seen below.![](http://uploader.ws/upload/200906/0627091712_Moved_Battery_Box_First.jpg)
That made enough room between the radiator and the battery to fit the air filter comfertably. The only cutting of wires i had to do was the MAF sensor connector, There are 3 little wires and 1 big wire... all you have to do is look up closer to the plug and you will see where the 1 BIG wire acually turns into 2 wires when it hooks to the plug so thats where you will make your splice and extend all 5 wires to reach the plug and MAF sensor up to your intake...Here is a pic of fitting in the intake after i mounted up the battery further back in the engine bay...![](http://uploader.ws/upload/200906/0627092006_Moved_Battery_Box.jpg)
And after i cut my origional intake all the way down to a 3 inch peice of pipe and hooked up the Filter and MAF sensor with the plug extended and buttend everything up this is what it looks like.....
![](http://uploader.ws/upload/200906/0627092006a_New_Short_Intake.jpg)
I think i am the first to accually attempt this short intake infront of the battery and ill tell ya its not a complicated move and i would accually reccomend it... It could be my imagination but i think i can feel a little pick up on bottem end with a shorter intake... If anything it has alot less pipe to get hot and heat up the air before going into the intake..... I like it and ill let you all know next month when i go back up tot he track if it helps 1/4 mile
time or not....
![](http://uploader.ws/upload/200906/0627091712_Moved_Battery_Box_First.jpg)
That made enough room between the radiator and the battery to fit the air filter comfertably. The only cutting of wires i had to do was the MAF sensor connector, There are 3 little wires and 1 big wire... all you have to do is look up closer to the plug and you will see where the 1 BIG wire acually turns into 2 wires when it hooks to the plug so thats where you will make your splice and extend all 5 wires to reach the plug and MAF sensor up to your intake...Here is a pic of fitting in the intake after i mounted up the battery further back in the engine bay...
![](http://uploader.ws/upload/200906/0627092006_Moved_Battery_Box.jpg)
And after i cut my origional intake all the way down to a 3 inch peice of pipe and hooked up the Filter and MAF sensor with the plug extended and buttend everything up this is what it looks like.....
![](http://uploader.ws/upload/200906/0627092006a_New_Short_Intake.jpg)
I think i am the first to accually attempt this short intake infront of the battery and ill tell ya its not a complicated move and i would accually reccomend it... It could be my imagination but i think i can feel a little pick up on bottem end with a shorter intake... If anything it has alot less pipe to get hot and heat up the air before going into the intake..... I like it and ill let you all know next month when i go back up tot he track if it helps 1/4 mile
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haha yea i know sorry about pic size.... i used the uploader.ws and it just blew all the pics up.... but anyway ive modded the intake a few times accually... first when i bought it it went straight up to the fire wall.... then i put a 90 degree elbow on it and put it behind the battery..... then last week right before the test and tune at my local track i took the head light and side marker out and hooked a flex hose to my intake and ran it all the way up to the headlight and i had the filter sticking out of the front.... it accually picked up almost a 10th of a second just running the filter all the way up to the headlight but i was figuring then that my intake was wayyy too long and that im still sucking air through a hot intake pipe so its kind of defeating the purpose..... so then i just ran it up infront but anyway heres some pics of the intake set up i ran at the track last week...and again sorry about the size..
http://uploader.ws/upload/200906/062...ntake_1111.jpg
http://uploader.ws/upload/200906/062...intaek_333.jpg
http://uploader.ws/upload/200906/062...intake_222.jpg
http://uploader.ws/upload/200906/062...ntake_1111.jpg
http://uploader.ws/upload/200906/062...intaek_333.jpg
http://uploader.ws/upload/200906/062...intake_222.jpg
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dyam das sum getto stuff.....obviously its gonna make a difference if u stick the filter rite infront of the car all open....but its not worth it u know all the dirt and water gonna mess shyyt up, do something about it to cover that with headlight or u can run that straight under the headlight behind the bumper instead of headlight tho....?
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Yea honestly they way i have it now you can easily run an air duct from the fender reinforcement to the filter.... but really i like it now sitting right behind the light instead of behind the fender..... now as for the long intake yea that was some ghetto ****.... but you can't say it wasnt getting enough air then but it looks rigged with out the head light and grill in it so thats y i decided to make a perminate fix....
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