dont know if this goes in this category but ill try..

well i had my exhaust guy see what he can build me in the forms of a cold air intake for my IROC and this is what he cam up with.

tell me what you guys think.

 

interesting, i'd yank those foglights

 

Does that clear the hood?

 

um he had to chop my hood. right now it looks all nasty but im gonna clean it up a little later.

 

That looks like 3'' piping to me?

I wonder if 2.5'' would make a big enough difference in terms of hood clearance?

 

It looks like well........ an exhaust. very interesting though.

 

looks like a chic straddling your core support with air filters for slippers

 

heres what the hood looks like at the moment but im gonna clean it up and put some sheet metal..

 

Honest opinion.

You could have accomplished the same airflow with a single 3" setup using supercharger (or exhaust) mandrel bends and black rubber marine exhaust pipe, ran it into the inner fender, and hidden a single K&N cone filter. Clean and factory looking without hacking up the hood.

I looked for a smilie for thumbs down, but couldn't find one.

 

i maybe the only one but i think it looks bad a$$, love man. But if you want to get it to not look like exhaust pipe you could always paint it black! but i like it!!

 

looks interesting.
I had this SLP unit on my old 86 Trans Am and it looked factory,

 

I'm not really feelin it. There were definitely better options out there. But if you chromed it, I may change my mind.

 

i just wanted osmething different then what everyone has or can buy.didnt really care about cutting the hood. all that matters is i like it.

 

eh, it's cool I think. The only problem is GM's stock piece is pretty darn good looking to begin with. It flows well enough for most engines, and it's already cold air. No need to change it in my opinion....

....but I still think your set-up is cool.

....you could get some mini-panties for shows like this guy's blown LS1 at G9 last year!

 

^^^
thats badass

 

I think it's great that somebody out there is trying to find out a different way from the "norm" to create a CAI. I like the way it looks as is color wise of course just clean up the hood some or maybe running a cowl induction hood would give you clearance or some kind of hood that had a power buldge in the center. I really like the brushed look, but I think eventually I would do something to prevent the hot under hood air from heating up your intake which could be rememdied by the cowl induction hood or maybe a powder coating could be done. I think I would try to test the airflow with and without the foglamps in place and if minimal change between the two keep the foglamps in place to "hide" the filters somewhat with an addition of some stainless steel expanded metal to protect the filter from debris.

 

Every guys dream

Nice set-up I just can't stand the way our cars looks when you remove the stock air ducts..............opens up the area around the hood latch too much for my taste

 

great idea and props to you, but the exhaust piping throws me off a little bit.

I'd remove those fog lights if you decide to take it to the track or something.

 

that looks all bloated... perhaps chroming it would help a bit.

props for a DIY job.

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i think it looks pretty cool. but i would definitely remove the fog lights. you'd be suprised at how much air those foglights block. i would do that if i didnt like my fogs so much and if it would clear the hood. ive been wanting to make one that goes from the throtle body to where the battery is but i dont want to move my battery. anyone else made some custom cold air kits and have pics?

 

F*ck it. it looks pretty sick. i wonder if you went with a ram air hood, if that would fix some of your clearance issues. i would agree with the fog light removal though, and put in a billet grille or something to the like there.. very sexy

 

You could box in the fog light holes so you could capture as much air as possible. Sort of a Ram Air.

 

The only thing throwing me off is it's not centered.. The TB to CAI duct angles and the two down tubes are off center through the holes.

Kevin D.

 

I like it. New and original. Now chrome it!

 

someone needs to make a new thread on custom cold air intakes, i found (when searching for one for my 93 Z) that most aftermarket ones are around $200 and they dont look nearly as cool as most custom ones made for around $100

 

That would restrict a lot of air from the radiator. Maybe some mesh inserts instead of fog lights would be of interest to you. Also, some ceramic coating would definitely clean up the looks of that thing, and help keep the air inside cool from engine temps.

 

I think It will look fine if you polish it or paint it. I'd go with painting it a high gloss of the color of the car cuz polishing it would be more of a hassle. Looks good to me, and I too like the innovativeness (is that a word?) being used instead of the same old same old. Yank those fog lights and get a billet grill to clean up the front.

 

Originality is great. It would look a ton better if it was polished or chromed. My only gripe... you probably lost some air flow through the radiator by removing the upper air dam. That plastic piece isn't just a tool tray, you know.

 

car still runs cool got my 2 fans hard wired. so no worries on that plus might be upgrading fans soon..

im very anti chrome

 

If you upgrade fans go with Spal dual 11" fans

 

how tacky is that? sick

 

the panties or the dollar?

 

what if ya used oval crossection pipe or kinda flatened some normap pipe some how to let it clear a bit more and then make a plate to cover the spot that the old air cleaner setup was.

 

different, but from a flow perspective, terrible. i built mine out of 3 1/2 in pipe.

 

I know someone who has THEIR mind in the gutter!

 

Yeah, it is different. It looks OK. Tell your exhaust guy that he forgot to put a muffler on it.

 

Those kind of panties are reserved for blown/boosted vehicles only. It is OK to put some of lace "boy shorts" on N/A engine duct work.

 

it won't be bad once you get it painted,chromed, or polished. And you get the hood cleaned up. The stock airbox just doesn't allow enough airflow. My 305 feels a major difference when i made one that went from the maf down underneath the fender. Big difference there. hey if you decide to get rid of those fog lights let me know. attempting to put my car back to stock and not having any luck

 

On average, you get a 1% HP increase for every 10* F drop in intake temperatures. It is a lot more than most people realize.

 

But it’s not DIY, he paid someone to do it.

I’m with Lotech, a single, simple setup in the fender would have worked as well without the butchery, but even more so, what was wrong with the stock TPI type setup?

And while I’m at it, do you plan on running hood pins or something now? You’ve managed to cut out the supports around most of the latch assembly in the hood, you’re just asking for that thing to rip out, blow open and go through your windshield…

 

Here is the route I took. I finally got the tubes powdercoated, so it looks alot better than it did.

 

And where it passes through the fenderwell.

 

One more. There is a large K&N filter below, and if I get a chance to take a pic, I will.

 

What's on the other side of that plate where it mounts to the battery tray? I've been trying to figure out how big a filter I could fit if I cut out the whole bottom of the tray, built a box roughly the size of SLP's cold air box with no bottom and fit a filter in it all the way through the tray taking up as much room as there is in there.

 

That plate is aluminum, and it has a 4" hole drilled through it. Then, get a piece of 4" rolled aluminum tubing, about eight inches in length. Place it halfway through the plate, and just spot weld it in a few places. This way, you will have a mounting place for the K&N filter underneath, as well as a mounting place for the dryer ducting as well. Just remove all the charcol canister junk, and you can mount it there. IIRC, I used either a 4.5, or 5 inch hole saw to cut through the sheetmetal. Then a couple of nuts, bolts and washers, and your done. Firebirds got a bad intake from the factory, so I had to make this one up. The filter is pretty large, and everything is pretty sturdy too. This wont work if you plan on keeping the canister, as this did not matter to me.

 

I went out to the garage, and took a pic to show you what I mean. I measured the tube that goes through the plate, and it is four inches long, not eight.

 

Brutalform, that setup is sweet (and the right way to do it without a cleaver), and I say that during the brief period that my mind is actually out of the gutter!!

I did my old setup very similar, except I used marine exhaust pipe (that tough rubber shee-ite with an inner steel core).

 

Thanks Lo-tec. If you look at the right of the pic, you can see where there was an existing hole I had cut,(cleaver), on a previous attempt to fab up a CAI. With that first hole, the filter was too close to a "corner" under the car, and made it hard to fit a large filter.

 

Looks really good... any idea how long that filter actually is?

 

I'll say a minimum of eight inches long. I wanted to stuff the largest one I could under there, and have the open rubber end physically fit on the tube as well. I went to the local speed shop, and had my buddy there order about four different ones, and I took the one that was best suited.