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Old Dec 21, 2003 | 07:41 PM
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Open Element with Emissions Installed

Just thought Id share my idea on here, rather than just taping the IAT sensor to the firewall and putting the breather where ever yall do, you can do like I did. I drilled 2 holes to the sizes of the IAT and the breather tube in the base, the IAT is pretty straight forward, now the breather tube I took a elbow off a heater hose and took 2 pieces of heater hose and put it on each side of the base of the open element. Then just plugged it in the breather, this is very easy if you have large drill bits and a drill press. I havent heard anyone doing this, so I thought Id share. GL heres a pic of mine





You can see the elbow and hose going underneath the air cleaner, by doing this the K&N will filter both the TBI and the breather. Also as opposed to using a breather cap, if you get blow by you wont have smoke comming underneath your hood because the TBI will suck it in.

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Old Dec 26, 2003 | 04:37 PM
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Heres A new shot of inside the assembly and yes I fixed the homemade cereal box seal with a new one from NAPA


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Old Dec 26, 2003 | 10:23 PM
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That is the same thing that i did expect I kept the breather out of the air cleaner and in the valve cover. I think most people do this and most open elements come with a spot for you to drill out.
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Old Dec 26, 2003 | 10:59 PM
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Ok well this is the how to if you have just a flat base with no holes haha
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Old Dec 26, 2003 | 11:09 PM
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Originally posted by LedZep
Ok well this is the how to if you have just a flat base with no holes haha
Oh yea it looks really good. I didn't mean to sell you short

Not to mention you don't have all the scratches where you slipped with a dremel like I did
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Old Dec 26, 2003 | 11:18 PM
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annnnnd look at my newly made avatar that I did my self haha
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Old Dec 27, 2003 | 02:03 AM
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Yeah the drop bases come with 2 places to drill out easy. One of these days I might get around to actually using them...

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