got me some parts and some beer and had a little fun today.



seems to work nicely! now i just gotta figure out how to fasten that chrome thingie.......i forgot what its called.......to the car so its not just hangin there. any ideas?

jim

 

haha looks good, but water is guna get in there..id watch out for your maf

 

better not drive though any big puddles, or you'll have a ghetto engine

...though I guess that's not much of a concern about puddles in Arizona....

 

nope, not as of yet anyways. i hear it gets rainy here during the summer......but i will just raise the thing up when that happens.

jim

 

I still don't understand why someone would install a $3 piece of flex tubing on a car that was near $30K when it was brand new?

 

If you want a CAI, just get a Place racing/ Cattman. It's the ONLY true Cai....

 

probally cause he spent 29,997. and had $3bucks left to spare?

 

+1 I agree, why put something that costs 3 dollars into your $17,000-$19,000 car.

 

This is the answer..... great one....

 

Your kidding right? That thing is going to F' up your car! Its going to pick up all sorts of crap and worse, water for sure. Second is that that piping is not the right size and will throw of the MAF.No good bro.

 

I designed a "GCAI-Ghetto cold air intake" with solid elbows and tube. With the fixed design the chances for chaffing and air turbulence was minimized. I've been running this for about a month with no problems. Performance continues to be consistent, even when the engine is hot.
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....highlight=gcai

 

that's cute....water going up? seems to me that it's not his only entrypoint for air, as the stock box is still connected. given that, if he engulfed that add-on in water, there wouldn't be any pressure to cause water to travel up into the maf and beyond. that's why people had bypass valves to CAI and injen's....no primary entry = no suction.

 

well i dont see water being a huge problem here in arizona. i will be stationed in washington state before the end of the year though, so i dont know if it will stay so low. im thinking that using regular piping would be better though since its smooth on the inside without all the little kinks. it also runs to the stock airbox with a fram airhog inside. maybe using a maf adapter for intake tubing would be better since it skips the airbox? yes? no?

jim