So i made a poor man's cold air intake... Any ideas whether it will work or not since i can't test it since it's on my max that has no tranny right now?

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oh man, you need to get a job, or something to take up your spare time.

 

hm looks like a good idea...i was playin around with my intake tubing yesterday i attached a piece of home depot flexible dryer hose vent piping that my friend was gonna use on his civic to the end of my airbox (i was REALLY bored and had an afternoon to kill) and layed it out to the front of the car and closed the hood down to it; so i go for a slow drive around the block for the hellovit and a gust of wind and up flies my hood...no harm done it was an empty side road so i pulled over and reassembled my stock tubing. that was just BSing around but i like your project, i plan to do some real work on mine over the summer. What kind of cone filter is that btw?

 

i've had nothing to do since i've not been able to find a tranny until now. but it will be here next week since i have to send money order before the guy ships it. i'm hoping my dad will loan me the money to get the vg30et engine i found so i can have something to do but it's not looking too good.

 

the filter was some auto zone brand. it was like 15 dollars or something. sounded pretty cool hooked to the stock intake.

 

but i thought you left the org and said you would never post here again b/cause you were tired of gettin flamed on!!! WELCOME BACK!!

 

dude.. i wanted to do that for so long.. its just splicing the MAF sensor wires to reach.... i think it would work better that way... GO FOR IT!

 

yeah... i found a place that never flames but there are that many 3rd gens there so i devided to come back because i had some problems. Thanks for the welcome.

 

The only thing i need to do now is put some self tapping screws in the battery tray to hold it down, get a longer tube for the rexerve/overflow antifreeze tank, and extend the maf wires.

 

With my 3" semi truck exhaust flex pipe! BTW, MAF is EASY to rewire! Just a request though, PLEASE at least paint the PVC tubing black or something!?

 

lol. yeah i'm going to paint it red i think... or black. not sure yet. how much did it cost you to do it?

 

Wire was nothing, had it lying around. Flex pipe was like $12 or so (about $4 per foot)and the PVC connector from the pipe to the MAF at Home Depot was like $10 (which I thought was a rip off). So about $20 and time cutting the hole and saudering the wires and insulating them like they're supposed to be. Did a friends VE about the same way except we had to add an elbow.

 

what type of filter are you using and how much was it? my total cost i think would be about 15 w/o filter with the autozone cone filter i got it would be about 30 all together.

 

what kind of filter did you put on the end of the pipe

 

it's some sort of autozone cone filter

 

I had just finished doing something very similar to this tonite...
Took it for a test drive and it pulls like MADD I mean VQ kinda MADD from 2000 on up...hope u get ur tranny man..

[http://communities.msn.com/Jojosride...to&PhotoID=112]Heres a diagram of mine[/url]

 

does it matter what kind or size

 

Size of what??

 

size of filter

 

i wouldnt think so. theyre all about the same size

 

except at autozone. there is a air filter and an air cleaner the cleaner is HUGE. it would never fit down where i put mine considering mine was a tight fit already. hey Ginuwin3112, you really noticed that much change? if so, i would try what i did and do an all smooth tubing right straight to the metal intake. like, take off the flexing rubber thing, i think that would cause a little bit of turbulence, and keeb the pipe the same size instead of reducing it, unless it will do the same thing exhaust pipes do when they are too big.

 

oh yeah on the tranny. i sent out the money order next day mail on thursday so the guy should have gotten the money around 3 my time on friday (i think 2 his time in NY) so he would have shipped friday so it should be here next week probably tuesday or wednesday.

 

Mtcookson..the gains are definantly noticable..awesome sound, torque, power...also a smoother idle

 

sweet. i can't wait to try mine out. Just in case anyone watns to know, you can call me Mark.

 

Was it the one on the orange and yellow packaging and came in either chrome, blue. or red plating? I'm planning on getting it only if its suppose to use the K&N filtercharger oil? Do you happen to know if it supposed to be oiled or not? Thanks.

 

that's the filter. i have no clue if it is supposed to be oiled though. if it is, i didn't. i just threw it on.

 

mtcookson...Ill have pics of my cai in about 20 min!

 

awesome. my tranny should be coming in this week so i'll get to test mine out.

 

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awesome. i can't wait to try mine now. it should be fun. maybe we should get into a market on these?? lol

 

that looks pretty good. I wish I could do the same thing in my VG.

 

why can't you?

 

..I just finished painting the pipes..let me know what u think!

THE FINAL PRODUCT!:
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dude, that looks awesome. great job!!

 

I have ABS.

 

so do i

 

are you worried about the anti freeze thing being in the way? if so, all you do is unbbolt the battery plate you have to cut a piece off the plate then kind of put it in there diagonally then get a longer hose for the container and move it to the back of the battery.

 

Oh okay I understand what you mean. I'll have more room when I move the Popcharger out of the way.

 

do you guys realize that over time, PVC will out-gas chemicals that are harmful to the engine and atmosphere? (PVC= poly vinyl CHLORIDE).. burning chlorine in the engine is horribly hard on the engine itself, and the rest of the compounds in the PVC make nasty pollution in the atmosphere.. that ****'ll kill you if you breathe it.

 

I think I'll stick with a VG CAI