Post Your Free Mods

[PewterBird]

I am trying to collect all of the free mods, and do a write up for them. I did a search for free mods and got back 300 hundred posts. These are the ones that I found. If you have any diffent ones or pictures or how to guides. Post.
1. Removing fins on the 98+ stock Air Lid
2. Free Ram Air- Cutting hole under the filter
to get air coming up the air dam
3. Remove Maf screen- Very conterversal
4. Lt1 scoop seeLT1 Air Scoop
5. Air Box removal 97 and pre
6. Raised air box- Using washers under the air
box.
7. Egr- See
8. Muffler Bypass-See Muffler Bypass
9. !Ait- Tricking the computer to think its
incoming air is only 57 degrees See
10. Maf porting- Allows more air See
11. Throttle bump stop- See
Install university
12. Free Ram Air Hood- Making the nostrills on
a 98+ bird functional(my mod)

[ January 22, 2003: Message edited by: PewterBird ]</p>

[Blazzin Joe]

Drill Mod, the manual guys.

[kala]

Originally posted by PewterBird:

1. Removing fins on the 98+ stock Air Lid
2. Free Ram Air- Cutting hole under the filter
to get air coming up the air dam
3. Remove Maf screen- Very conterversal
4. Lt1 scoop seeLT1 Air Scoop
5. Air Box removal 97 and pre
6. Raised air box- Using washers under the air
box.
7. Egr- See
8. Muffler Bypass-See Muffler Bypass
9. !Ait- Tricking the computer to think its
incoming air is only 57 degrees See
10. Maf porting- Allows more air See
11. Throttle bump stop- See
Install university
12. Free Ram Air Hood- Making the nostrills on
a 98+ bird functional(my mod)

sorry to bring this thread from dead but i have some questions. today i opened my airbox to change air-filter, i saw that one of my previous owners did the no. 1 mod already and he or she attempted no. 2 mod (free ram air mod). But it was really bad and only on right side of the lower airbox. it seemed like he or she just used a hammer and punched it to make a hole. so, there's like a 1" by 3" hole there. I was nervous and i took my car to the dealer and the dealer was telling me that i should get a new lower airbox housing or i will be sucking a lot of hot air. Q1. I am like WTF...isn't that the free air mod (when cut both sides)? so, Q2. by doing free air mod do we really suck in hot air? i also saw there are two radiator kind of thing...one is ac condensor then there is 1" gap and then radiator. Q3. my question is where does air actually comes up from the air deflector--is it infront of ac condensor or infront of radiator? Q4. if i do the ram-air mod , do i cut upto the condersor or all the way up the radiator?

Also, i want to know more information about mod no. 6 raised airbox, mod no. 8 muffler bypass,and no. 9 !Ait.i searched but didn't find any info that i can use to do the mod. Thanks guys...

[kala]

anyone???

[grayman]

when you cut the bottom out of the airbox you can put weather stripping between the sides of the airbox and and the radiator mount. (what the airbox sits on).

this will help to make sure that you only draw air from the bottom (cold, fresh air from the lower air damn) and from the front of the air box. (air that gets through the stock nostrills on the hood.) Even though the nostrils 'seem' to be blocked by the hood latch mount air still gets in.

[StrtRacer98]

What is the Drill mod, for manual guys?

[RicE-ter]

Originally posted by StrtRacer98:
What is the Drill mod, for manual guys?

it makes ur clutch feel more direct for manual people, i think just search but from what i remember its really only worth it if ur changing ur clutch and stuff.

losing weight is free
remove spare tire and jack, or gutting basically
and the track mods like running on a gallon of gas
remove drive belt
unhook exhaust after cat

thats all i can remember ne way

[FirebirdGT]

Originally posted by StrtRacer98:
What is the Drill mod, for manual guys?

http://www.chevyhiperformance.com/howto/39021/

I did it on mine.

[V8 Killer]

Porting heads, throttle body, plenum, runners and regrinding the cam :D

[kala]

Still have one question:

Originally posted by kala:
i took my car to the dealer and the dealer was telling me that i should get a new lower airbox housing or i will be sucking a lot of hot air. .........Q2. by doing free air mod do we really suck in hot air?

[shenanigans]

search drivetrain I did drill mod as well when I did my clutch and hydraulics...

[xFirex99]

Still have one question:


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Originally posted by kala:
i took my car to the dealer and the dealer was telling me that i should get a new lower airbox housing or i will be sucking a lot of hot air. .........Q2. by doing free air mod do we really suck in hot air?
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Odds are is the dealership guy is trying to make a sale (usually pretty pricey too). If its not too badly damaged, try cutting out rectangualar holes in the lower airbox, leaving about a 5/8" lip all the way around. That way if you do want to upgrade to a CAI, you've already done the cutting work. As for the "hot" air coming in, I wouldn't worry about it since so many ppl here have does this mod with no problems.
If you wanted to replace the lower air box, I'm sure someone who installed the K&N CAI would have one for sale.

[ February 08, 2006, 04:04 PM: Message edited by: xFirex99 ]

[kala]

thanks a lot ...that's just what i wanted to know..

[CamaroDude]

Re: Post Your Free Mods

What exactly does removing the fins from the stock airbox do? Isn't there a reason for them being there? It doesn't seem like removing them would make any difference but i have no clue.

[slow6]

Re: Post Your Free Mods

you get more airflow, stock is restrictive