Check it out, Just took a few runs to chase-pitkins to get all the right fittings, had to move my battery and a few relays to the other side of the car, and I came up with this intake, it makes a nasty hissing sound too!! I am still looking for a flexable pieice of PVC from the MAF to the KN..anyone dont anything like this?
Thanks
Aj

 

About 60$

 

Paint that chit black so it doesn't stick out so much.

~M~

 

Eventually i will, hopefully i will get one made out of metal..
Aj

 

I made a dual CAI. I'm getting ready to move the battery to the bed. Then I will be able to put both K&N's behind the headlight bezels. I also relocated the manifold air temp sensor to the new intake while I was at it.

 

I'm surprised no one asked you what a "chase pitkins" is! I know, even though I live in "Greece".

 

I am in webster, I actually work at the one on Hold Rd
Thanks
Aj

 

that hissing sound you are hearing is false air being sucked into your engine from a leak somewhere in your setup. it looks like you have plumping supply, wood stove pipes and about 10 clamps on that thing and your now sucking hot air from under the hood back into your engine. check out my ram air setup here.

http://www.fbody.com/members/brads91z28/ramair.htm

 

I can put my head right next to the massive KN and hear it hiss...I have all the joints sealed with RVT or plumber glue..it might not look good, but it works
soon i will be venting it like you did, out tthe bottom or side

 

That hissing is the air being sucked through the airfilter. Since it is not encased anymore you can now hear it. Mine makes the same noise... although you can't hear it while driving... the exhaust takes care of that issue.

 

That is probably the most ghetto looking CAI I have ever seen in my life. That is hideous. Just my opinion.
Although that second one that was posted is very nice. Impressive


:lala:

 

93ND500, do you have a pic of your engine from the front? That's got to be one of the most nicely detailed engines I've seen.

 

i dont see anything ghetto about it, its deff helped improve airflow and was fun to make, and was pretty cheap..as for pics, i will try to get some of the front. i am polishing my stuff this weekend when i put my afpr in
thanks
aj

 

Wow, i want to make my firbird fast, but i hop i dunt have to make no crazy looking thing like that for my car. My girlfriend just saw that thing and said my car was a POS if it needed junk like that to go fast. She has a honduh and she made a intake out of some really nice aluminum flex hose. And it lukes alot better den dat. man, i love my firbird but damn why so stupid to make power?

 

Sorry, it had to be done.

 

this is my opinion on this topic.
NEITHER OF THOSE ARE CAI. they are bascially open K&N filters under the hood near the fenders. firebirds/ta have their filter box near the fender anyway, so by your standars that is cai.
you have to be scavenging air from outside the engine compartment to have it considered cai, in my opinion.
Do ron mullins CAI, its so simple and so good. its in the tech articles.

 

lmao.. can anyone here weld? take that hodgepodge of plumbing store supplies off your TB and mock up your own out of metal pipe using the same dementions, then you can prep and paint it after the welding is done and the paint will actually stay on, instead of scraping off your plastic tubing that you jacked off your grandmas dryer... i know it may seem like some work, but if you are going to do it.. why not do it right?

 

What is wrong with it..Your engine dont show when ur driving down the road..i dont enter it in shows and it works just as good correct?
or am i wrong
AJ

 

you sir, are wrong. Think of all the buffering the incomming air would recieve due to your mis-matched tubes and so forth.. think how nice and smoothly air would travel down an intake with a uniform metal circumfrence.. get my drift? turbulant air: less airflow per cubic inch of runner, plus unstable air for the plenum to devide into the cylinders and injectors to meter fuel out to. It might be slight, but a properly matched cold air induction would do a more efficient job at getting air to the intake.

as to "your engine dont show when ur driving down the road" well i guess that just shows the difference in pride i have about my car versus yourself.

 

Well i guess its more the time and money..I go to school AND work 40 hours a week between 2 steady jobs and a part time job, and i am learning as i am only 17 about cars..i do my best
Aj

 

As I said in my post. I am getting ready to move the battery to the bed. Once this is done, I will have to K&N's enclosed behind the headlights. There are fairly decent openings at these locations to allow more than enough cool air to the filters. There might be enough to induce a Ram effect, but I'm not counting on it.

btw......This is in my truck, I don't have a 3rdgen.

 

You mean like this?????


Mine has the fart can and the wing too

 

:sillylol: LOL ... your toolbox is faster than mine, I don't have a wing or a fartcan :hail:

 

Helmsdini you are right about the turbulance of the air, but where you are wrng is about anyone having pride about their car. Anyone barely ever sees under my hood until after they have paid to (lost a mony race to me) or are a close friend helping me work on it. My pride comes from making it faster not mirror polishing my spark plug wires. A beautiful third gen is always great but if he has limited time then he is definately on the right track trying to make it faster.

 

here you go and it works great
olny $50
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