custom intake ?'s

[burton51m]

i want to make a custom intake with these pipes (link below). could just go to lowes or somewhere and have them bend the pipe?http://www.suprasport.com/product.as...d=452&catid=48
pipes^^^
the inlet in the picture below is 2.75"
would i get 2.75" pipe or 3.00inch pipe? should i use couplers that are 2.75, do the couplers stretch or would i get 3.00 couplers?http://www.suprasport.com/view_category.asp?cat=86 <<couplers




also the AFM is 3.00" wide so how would i connect the 3.00inch AFM opening to the 2.75inch opening ?

any help would be appreciated.

[f00g00]

I wouldn't recommend using metal for your intake pipe as it will just soak up all that exhaust heat and defeat the purpose. You can search around some of the aftermarket speed shops and see if someone has a tapered non metallic that has those dimensions on the end but I'd just stick with the stock
one, or get a reducer to fit the top one. You can see what I mean here, look at the fittings.
http://www.simota.com.au and click on the fittings.
You have to take in consideration the small hose that goes to the rack and pinion from the bottom of the first boot from the AFM.
Just get rid of the airbox and add a filter like the AEM or Simota. You will need an adapter for the cone that attatches to your AFM.

[burton51m]

ok, i was just pondering the idea.lol. those pipes are aluminum by the way... i dont think is matters though. i am definetly going to get an intake prolly the k/n fipk only because the blitz bolt on filter is over $200 and ppl left good feedback for the k/n filter at suprasport.com

[theWeezL]

Tomorrow I'll take some pics of what I did you might be interested to see how I acomplished what your trying for next to zero cost.

[Supra2NR]

yo weezl this is thanx to you too i thinkis the final setup that i will use
sori for the pics (took it with a camera phone)
with this setup i also moved the afm, one good purpose is to free up some space in the front,

on the 1st pic

the red circle is a 2.75 to 3 inch coupler with a 45 degree bend

the blue lines is a 22 degree bend pipe from pepboys

cone filter from pepboys (i advice getting k&n filters, theyre better)

the green lines is a 2.5 to 3 inch coupler that i used to insert the duct that lead to the bottom front of the car

last one is a 3 inch plastic tubing pretty long actually it goes all the way down to the bottom slits in the front and i used some zip ties to anchor it to the bottom grill, if you are gonna do the duct too, u need to cut a hole in the plastic cover behind your fog light underneath the car

you dont need to disassemble your headlights either like S.O.G.I. said jus use the oblong shaped hole under the headlights, i think this is where the old inlet goes , so all this setup would coust u around 30 bucks pretty cheap for a cold air intake dunt u think?

[burton51m]

couple questions...

1.when you moved the afm did u have to extend any wires or do any cutting or does it just move up there pretty easy?
2.the air duct...did that connect directly to your cone filter or is it sitting there?
3.is there a website to get the pipe from?i tried pepboys.com. and the coupler in red,the 45deg one, was that the stock one?

[f00g00]

What are you using to block off all the hot air from the rad and the exhaust from entering the filter?

[theWeezL]

hes not, him and I went over this...but he doesnt listen too well

I got super busy with my tail light mod today, I promise tomorrow I will show you what I did, with pictures you can actually see something in...and I promise you, it will be a super cheap and easy cold air intake that actually...ummm....gets cold air...?

[f00g00]

I tried the pipe idea and scrapped it the same day because the pipe was so hot and I couldn't find a heat blanket anywhere so this is still a work in progress for me.
My box is sheet aluminum cut and bent to shape, held together with pop rivets and covered with leftover fiberglass insulation pieces from a building under constuction that they used to insulate the CAC.
I still have to either cover the top or change the rubber up top to seal with the hood closed.
kind of a hack job first effort.
Jeez guess I need to clean the engine bay up some.

[theWeezL]

the air moving through the pipe doesnt stick around long so I doubt it has much time to heat up due to heat transfer.