homemade CAI pics??

[white96six]

I know that this has been posted numerous times but all the searches I do turn up really old posts with links to pictures that dont work. does anyone have a homemade CAI that they use and have pics of it? thanks.

[pyrokilla]

Cheapest homemade CAI ever.
http://images.cardomain.com/member_i...01_17_full.jpg
That is the stock "arm" with a K&N cone filter glued to it. Having it lower to grab "colder and blowing air" is BS, makes hardly any difference.

[ October 25, 2003: Message edited by: pyrokilla ]</p>

[Loochy88]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by pyrokilla:
Having it lower to grab "colder and blowing air" is BS, makes hardly any difference.

<hr></blockquote>


i was just curious to know if you could prove that?

[Ian]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by pyrokilla:
[QB]Having it lower to grab "colder and blowing air" is BS, makes hardly any difference.
QB]<hr></blockquote>

[img]graemlins/bs.gif[/img] cold air being forced in def. makes a difference, no argument about it.

[pyrokilla]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Loochy88:



i was just curious to know if you could prove that?<hr></blockquote>

On our cars, my friend has the exact same car as me, he has his CAI go all the way down. The only difference between our cars is the fact its a major PITA to clean his. I can see on an LT1 or LS1 every bit of cold air helping, but please, the 3.4 alteast doesn't.

[BlitzPuppet]

A cone filter on a stock intake elbow does jack ****. There is still that tiny, restrictive hole the air has to go through. So all a cone filter on a stock intake elbow basically is just a drop in filter. Buy a whole cold air intake, or make a smoother flowing intake elbow.

[ October 26, 2003: Message edited by: BlitzPuppet ]</p>

[mrbako]

if it EVER STOPOS RAINING!!!! i'll get some pics

[ianwells100]

i can answer this quite easily....

on my 95, 3.4L i did what pyrokilla did... felt almost no differnce... so i replaced all tubing to the throttle body with 3" PVC with the filter down in the wheel well... felt a lot of difference (a lot relative to doing a CAI install), and heard the sucking noise and everything

now, on my 97 3.8L, i have the SLP CAI, and that makes the most difference... although not $180 more difference than my 3" PVC CAI, but i'd imagine its a lot harder to do on the 3.8L than it was on my 3.4L, due to the throttle bodies...

and pyrokilla... unless you know about how engines work, don't make comments like:

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr> I can see on an LT1 or LS1 every bit of cold air helping, but please, the 3.4 alteast doesn't <hr></blockquote>

thats crap... every little helps every engine... how do you think superchargers and turbos work, they ram air down the throttle body's throut, the more air the better, and that goes for the 3.4L too...

[MustangEater8251]

You are not forcing any more air in by having it down in the fender.

I have my filter in the same spot as the air box.

But the worst part of the stock setup is the point between the ABS unit and the radioatr shroud.

I have had a kit go into the fender and one in this spot, and no differences.


Only time it made a difference is when I ran a straight tube straight to under the car, and it was about .02 consistantly on track runs, not worth, a stray pebble.


Plus in Florida heard of many people who have lost there filter in the in fender types. It does not force anymore air in and the temps are not much different, especially if you acout for the temp of the road.

I run this and seem to pull some decent times, I put the stock intake on and it sucked compared to what this thing is like.

Its all 3 in. tubing...

http://www.mustangeater825.50megs.co...Ipic2_0003.jpg

http://www.mustangeater825.50megs.co...Ipic1_0002.jpg

[mrbako]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by mrbako:
if it EVER STOPOS RAINING!!!! i'll get some pics<hr></blockquote>

okay...poor quality...plus my car is rancid from all the rain and mud...but here goes it.

intake pics

total...it was about 50-60 bucks in parts from home depot...and it sounds mean as hell!

[Nine Four 94]

my CAI is awsome, It works in my opinion but yet u also purchased a jet chip so i guess they work together. But I like mine, Im going to get stage 2 in a few weeks the one that reaches all the way down to the bottom. I dont think it was homemade tho

[ November 02, 2003: Message edited by: Nine Four 94 ]</p>