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Finally had time to mess around with the intake tonight. Stopped on the way home from work at Lowes and picked up anything I thought might work.
In the end, the corrugated pipe worked best. Needed to make a hard connection between the pipe and the filter neck. So I ended up cutting off about 3/4" of flange from a 3" ABS elbow and gluing it onto a 1.5" piece of ABS 3" pipe. That makes the corrugated pipe mate to the rubber neck on the filter housing.
Here are the pics...
Cut off the end clean where it mounts to the throttle body. Then warmed it up with heat gun and stretched the pipe just a tad so it slipped on the throttle body. Then attach with stainless steel band clamp.
Next the connector made from a piece of flange and pipe is fit in the filter end and attached with another clamp. (The blue filter is the Kool Blue filter. Looks just like a K&N but blue. $31 w/tax & shipping. )
The corrugated tube rubs the radiator housing, so a piece of truck tire inner tube was cut and wrapped around and attached with black zip ties as to be less obtrusive.
Then the rubber neck is fit over the mating flange made from ABS, and a clamp holds it tightly together.
Thats it for now. Solid, free flowing, and gives a nice growl when I stand on it.
If you had to buy everything I used, it would run less than $20.
What I like is it was quick and easy, doesn't look too "home made", and completely reversible if I want to put back the OEM setup.
In the end, the corrugated pipe worked best. Needed to make a hard connection between the pipe and the filter neck. So I ended up cutting off about 3/4" of flange from a 3" ABS elbow and gluing it onto a 1.5" piece of ABS 3" pipe. That makes the corrugated pipe mate to the rubber neck on the filter housing.
Here are the pics...
Cut off the end clean where it mounts to the throttle body. Then warmed it up with heat gun and stretched the pipe just a tad so it slipped on the throttle body. Then attach with stainless steel band clamp.
Next the connector made from a piece of flange and pipe is fit in the filter end and attached with another clamp. (The blue filter is the Kool Blue filter. Looks just like a K&N but blue. $31 w/tax & shipping. )
The corrugated tube rubs the radiator housing, so a piece of truck tire inner tube was cut and wrapped around and attached with black zip ties as to be less obtrusive.
Then the rubber neck is fit over the mating flange made from ABS, and a clamp holds it tightly together.
Thats it for now. Solid, free flowing, and gives a nice growl when I stand on it.
If you had to buy everything I used, it would run less than $20.
What I like is it was quick and easy, doesn't look too "home made", and completely reversible if I want to put back the OEM setup.
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