cold air intake questions (P5/3rd Gen)
 

Does K&N or Injen make a cold air intake for the Protege5? (or any 2.0L 2002 Protege)

Anybody got the part number?

Has anyone installed one? Is it easy to do? Is there much of a power gain?

I have the Injen CAI coming next week for the Protege5. This will be the first shipment so noone has the one installed that was made for the Pro5 (or 3rd gen 2.0L). I feel its going to be a great item & you should see a slight gain in power (even better if you add a cat back exhaust). The site is sorta wacky right now but I do have them for sale for about 60.00 off MSRP. E-mail me.

I made my own CAI (not real pretty but cheap) by removing the huge black plasitic contraption going into the stock air box. God that thing was a funky looking intake and looked like a big waste of plastic. Anyways i went to home depot and got some 3 inch accordian aluminum piping and a hose clamp and routed it down towards the bottom of the engine bay. Cost was about 5 bucks. I also got a K and N filter installed that also. I really did not feel much of an improvement (hard to tell when your comming after driving the M3 LOL) but it sounds a little meaner. Waiting to see if my MPGs will get any better but hard to tell since im still breaking the motor in. Only have 800 miles on it.

is the injen cold air intake the one that goe down to the very bottom of the engine bay? if it is will we have room to install it or will we have to like move the battery or what?

The Injen is a Cold air intake so it goes down the little hole into the fender (in front of the wheel well). All you have to do is relocate the resevoir right there. Heres a pic