new intake idea. Tell me what you think.

[lon elliott]

I have a custom 3 inch cai, but i was looking and i have an idea. i dont have fog lights, so im thinking of mounting a 3 inch pipe with a 90 at that whole on the drivers side where the foglight would be. then running it over to where the whole is for the stock intake, up and into an inline air filter and over to the intake. Like a retarded ram air, and at the very least it will bring in much colder air from completely outside the car. Any ideas? feel free to trash the idea now.

[98 3.8]

I think that's a great idea. Sure couldn't hurt anyway. I actually have though about doing something similar--Get some flex tubing, run it from the foglight hole along the nose of the car and over that plastic radiator shroud, into the bottom of the stock airbox.

[Tyler]

where are u gonna find an inline filter?

for the gains of ... 0hp and 0tq.. its better off u save u'r money and figure out a new project..

not to be harsh or anything.. just a headsup

[camaronat]

Some things to think about...

You will most likely have to cut your bumper cover to fit the tubing in behind the openings.

You have to make sure you have enough room to clear the bumper rienforcements.

You will have to have a sealed compartment to fit the airfilter in unless you use the stock airbox.

You probably won't see much of a gain.

Hope this helps.

[HeadyFirebird'00]

i say try it out but if u have to really mess with anything that takes a lot of effort to cut or remover anything with the body of the car i say no. but if you brain can think of this thing im sure u can figure it out.

[98 3.8]

You would not have to cut anything to get tubing out from the foglight cutout. I say go for it.

[Turbo V6 Camaro]

umm.... guard the filter from the rain........ if you try it

[lon elliott]

i figure it cant hurt, and it would have to give gains after your moving, it would be forcing air into my intake. im gonna try it. To all you nasayers, poo poo on you. LOL. ill let you guys know how it turns out.

[South Tampa V6]

You're better off with a cone filter on the end and just try to get cold air. You need to remove the radiator support to make room for the hose so you have to make a bracket for the radiator and you will have to cut the bottom off of the fuse box to make room for the hose to get to the bumper. This is the set up I have.

I thought a long time about doing ram air but there are too many bends to get a good true ram air effect. Works great for cold air though.

Even better would be dual cones, removing both fog lights. Run a hose/pipe along the bottom of the radiator to a "T" then have the outlet of the "T" go up to the TB. For that you would just have to cut some plastic on the engine side of the two pockets behind the fog lights and avoid the belt.

[lon elliott]

i thought about doing that, relocating my battery and using both fog lights holes, and coming around both sides of the radiator to a t in front of the intake. But a T with more of a butt shape for lack of a better term to force air into the intake. i think at the very least it would look bad ***, having dual cold air intakes coming into your intake from both sides.

[loser]

go for it ,id make it out of paper of something first though. good luck with it.tell us how it turns out.

[97rs4life]

yea but then again that is a long path for your air to follow just to get to the engine. A simple CAI like you probably have already works just as good.

But hey, only one way to find out if it really works and you gain anything rihgt? Try it out.

[3.4 slow to go]

sounds like you want to do a4th gen version of THIS

['94firebirdv6]

i had the idea a long time ago that i still might do:
after i get my turbo, i wanted to mount flex tubing to the foglight covers and run it to a shroud that would surround the intercooler for additional cold ari flow

[lon elliott]

yeah 3.4 slow to go, something like that, except i will run it around the sides of the radiator and not under it. to many dips around here i scrape the chin under there all the time.