Tim from Wyoming 82601

Hey everyone!

I'm seeing who would be interested in purchasing my custom designed aluminum true cold air intake system made for third gen Camaro TPI engines. The system will breathe cool air from OUTSIDE the engine bay, just like the stock intake, but it will flow through a cool air box and 3" or 3.5" aluminum tube and K & N cone filter that will be located on the driver's side battery tray.

I have mocked up a prototype kit, inspired by my 383 LT1 swap, and it isn't finished yet, but I will post up pics of the entire system, as soon as it is finished.

The kit will work on LT1/LS1 swapped third gens and TPI cars and I could probably make a kit for the 6 cylinder cars and TBI cars, too, down the road, depending on how much interest people show.

Here's the lowdown:

The kit will consist of:

-Low profile aluminum airbox that mounts snugly into the driver's side battery tray area, using three mounting points

-The box will have a 4" round inlet that goes down a few inches through the battery tray on the driver's side, hence cool air getting sucked in

-The box will have tubing welded so that the K & N filter will mount to the tubing inside the box, and the box-to-TB tubing will mount to the outside of the box.

-The box will have a sealed lid for easy access to the filter

-3" or 3.5" polished aluminum tubing for box-to-TB connection

-LT1 elbow (choice of aluminum or stock) or whatever elbow is needed for particular application

-All necessary couplings and clamps

-A battery tray template so you know exactly where to cut the square hole in the battery tray, for the 4" inlet tube

I may offer a powder or ceramic coating option, whichever one prefers.

I haven't figured out what the system will cost yet. It won't be overly cheap, but it should be reasonable for what you will be getting, and the system will both work well and look great!

The more interest I receive in these kits, the harder I will work on pricing and other details.

I am building my 3.5" cold air intake to feed a 500+ horsepower LT1.

Again, inspired by my 383 LT1 swap, I did not want to buy a ram air hood and airbox from Hawks for $850.00+, and the stock intake would be too restrictive, so this was my solution.

Let me know guys! I'll have my intake done probably within a few weeks, and I'll post pictures of it!

-Tim

 

I think you'd have to show pictures and a real price to get any real answers. What you consider "reasonable for what you're getting" might seem reasonable for the work that you're putting in, but might be totally out of most people's budget (or not) and not many of these cars are stock enough for a stock setup to work without some work (and obviously yours isn't either so it might be hard to judge if it will work well on your existing setup without good pictures (and also those would be a good way for people to judge what they think of your price).

In my case I might be interested in it or parts of it (and sure, I might understand if you wanted to only sell a whole kit if the design warranted that) but I don't need something that even gets to the stock TB position.