First off, I order the intake on January 11th, and I just got it this morning. That's a helluva wait. I decided that even though my KS just went bad I would install the intake anyway. Pretty simple to do, the only hard part is getting the rubber piece on the TB.

I'm hoping I did everything right. The instructions sucked so I kinda guessed on some stuff. I relocated the air temp sensor by twist-tying it to a plastic hose near the fender. Does that sound right? Also, I'm hearing these weird noises at idle from around the maf. Sounds like a chugging, kinda like a train chugging I guess. And I noticed that there is no roar in first. From a dead stop the roar doesn't start until I shift to second! This baffles me. The car sounds stock in neutral and first at least until 4000+ RPMS then it sounds a little louder. But in second and third it was REALLY loud from 2000 all the way up. I love the sound by the way.

Could there be something wrong here? Maybe I just didn't drive around enough.

Any thoughts?

 

pics??? and some1 cen help u then if u did something wrong

 

I don't hear my intake at all up until ~2800-3000 rpms. Below that it's my catback.

I put the temp sensor in the filter and put zip ties around the whole filter. It's a little vague, but not "inside" but within the outer "valley's" of the filter.

Don't know about the MAF sensor. Maybe there's something in there trying to get through?

 

hey people i ordered mine on the 1st of Feb and just got it today. ( i guess they wait a certain amount of orders and then ship on the same day) Can some one tell me where i can get instructions on how to install it? im such a newb. thanks!!

 

Instructions came in the box for me. There's a website called VBMax.com or something like that that has instructions. Search for FrankenCar installation on yahoo.com.

As for the noise, after driving now for a day I realize the throttle has to be pushed down a bit to get the roar. I was just expecting loud noise all the time, but the car is very quiet when driving conservatively. Thats why I couldn't hear it in 1st, because I was taking it easy.

Anyway, i'm pretty happy with it. It sounds great at WOT, kinda sounds like a V8 in my opinion. And I can feel an increase in throttle response, car seems livelier and a bit quicker.