cool

Is there any wat to do that but put the inlet behind the lower grill. so you don't see the ducting??

 

ok 3 questions
1.what did you use for the scoop?
2.how did you attach the scoop?
3.how did you conect the duct to the air box?
ok really 4 questions
4.did you fix the over 60 problem?

 

Ya instructions would be nice on how and what you used to clamp everything together


COLE

P.S. where did u get all of this stuff

 

Hey im not trying to hate or anything and its cool you got some power out of it. BUT that **** looks like a ghetto fabulous home depot job. You should get a autoexe lower lip and duct the piping into the two holes in the lip. You probably wont even see the ducting from the front. SORRY this is my 2 pennies

 

here's another 2 cents......... ghetto. why buy a new car and then put that cheap stuff on it?

 

Yah, I would try and hide that piping, and make sure you clean the lint trap at least once a week or you might start an engine fire.

 

Aaron ,quit being a punk....he made a way to increase the airflow to his intake...yes i think the front could be hidden better, BUT what the hell would you sugest ....or do you not care about increasing the performance of your car....hold on....(just went and looked at your sig)oh wait MR.k&n drop in and philops visionbulbs....excuse me i have known friends for years who have done something like that so please know what you are talking about before you come on here and start flaming someone......yes i do believe that everyone is entitled to there own opinion but if you cant do it in good taste(like arl240 & boostedmp5)...keep it to yourself. he did a good job on the connections and i will say this again i think he could have placed the scoops in a better place BUT......

 

your'e right....... i am a punk. but i would'nt trade my k&n air filter for dryer duct. aint flaming nobody.

 

Wow all the drama. Just so you all know, this is just a beta test.

I wanted to see if it really worked, before I spent more than $20 to create an idea I had!

I really get off making my own ****. All the kids at the race track come over and talk my head off about this and that, god forbid I bring my RX out, I have to bring a drool rag.

1st off, I didn't want to put the scoops up in the grill as this takes away from the air needed by the radiator and A/C. That is the only reason I did it this way, again just a beta test.

This intake I made was very simple to create and it is Ghetto fabulous. I love it just because its only $20, and I know that really pisses people off, because they think performance costs tons of money, or it doesn't work. I only did this, to see if I could make the family car run better on the highway.

so anyway. I made this design from 100% Home Depot.

I used irrigation ducts for the scoops. I had to cut them down a little. These were $1.80 each.

I used hose clamps for all the connections. $1.07 each. Needed 6 of them.

I used wire ties to hold the intakes up into a recessed area right behing the front fasica of the car

I used a PVC Pee trap to connect the 2 intakes into one common pipe. I also used the pee trap, because it had nice slight bend to it, not abrupt turns. Cost was $1.90.

I had to get 16' of dryer ducting, I didn't need this much, but I didn't like the way the ducting creates ridges on the inside as you pull it apart, so I kept it smashed together and this helped make it very ridgid. It took around 8 feet per side. The cost was $6.00 per 8 feet.

Now I shall try to explain how I made it fit the car.

The first thing is I wanted to make sure I had no sharp bends and direct air flow, away from all heat sources.

I first put the 3" pipe on the airbox, which has a K&N in it. I connected it with a hose clamp, and started to fish it down through the factory scoop that is already there, in the splash guard. Once I got it down through and face straight forward, I cut it. I then connected the pee trap, making the straight section of the pee trap as my "primary" scoop feed. I wanted to make sure at least one of the scoops was giving direct cold air into the piping connected to the air box. Once this was connected, I then proceeded to connect the scoop , I used a small piece of ducting to connect it to the pee trap.

Now for the second scoop, it was a bit harder to do because I wanted it to look uniform and centered. I placed the scoop on the car using the rubber rope that holds the bottom of the bra on, I then loosely placed the ducting on the scoop and then loosely placed it on the pee trap and started to spin it until I had the scoop exactly at the angle I wanted. I also didn't want the piping pulling at it the whole time, I wanted it to be almost naturally holding itself. I then tighten every clamp down and then put wire ties on for ever section that could be pulled up against the underbody of the car.

This really works well and doesn't scrape the ground, as I have a very steep driveway and I have no problems, even with my forgetful wife driving it.

 

BTW: water being sucked up is not a concern, First off It would have to travel up 6' of 3" piping, which I think is impossible. The second reason is all factory air boxes have a small hole drilled in them to ensure water doesn't get sucked up past the filter.

So I am now thinking of using some black flat spray paint to hide the scoops and piping.

 

Well, I like it. It is the first I have seen of that, and it will make everyone here's life a little easier. Once you have perfected your design, scabs such as myself can lift ideas from it. I have a question. Are you going to change it to a smoother bore piping (PVC, steel, etc) once you have figured out the most efficient airstream? And is this true about the airbox, that it will not let water thru b/c of a hole in it? I thought that is what the stock resonator helped to rid of.

 

Yes I plan on useing smooth piping. I have some old aem intakes laying around that I am going to cut up and use.

The parts in the factory intake is for noise and nothing else. The airbox has a hole in the bottom to let water out of it.

 

keeno.

 

you se i have a lx so i was actually thinking about doing something like that from oone of the holes where the fog lights woould be on a es.....but i am a lazy *** so i would take it to my local performance shop and was going to get them to design me up something;.....

 

looks cool, i may get the autoexe lip sometime soon on my p5 and do the same thing! but do it with the holes in the lip, like was mentioned.

great idea! keep the ideas coming, these type of people are real assets