Question for anyone familiar with SLP cold air intake
04-13-2017, 12:47 AM
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Question for anyone familiar with SLP cold air intake
What do you do about your upper coolant hose? The driver's side intake tube clearly interferes with it. Is there one that people usually replace it with? What's the go-to solution? I found one picture online and it seems that that person got a whole new one.
04-13-2017, 12:04 PM
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Car: '91 GTA, '92 T/A Convertible
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Transmission: Pro-built 700R4
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Re: Question for anyone familiar with SLP cold air intake
IIRC, the kit came with a different upper radiator hose and thermostat housing to reroute the hose around the intake tube.
04-13-2017, 01:56 PM
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The single doesn't change anything about the upper rad hose. The dual was designed and intened for use with the T-ram, which points the hose under the serp belt instead of over it. The later dual kits came with a standard El Guapo cheapo chrome water neck for a SBC, which when bolted on a TPI points to the driver's rear of the engine. Then they included the most ridiculously long rad hose ever conceived to route behind the alternator and forward to the radiator.
Just one more reason my dual cold air intake is still on a shelf after 15 years. lol
Just one more reason my dual cold air intake is still on a shelf after 15 years. lol
04-17-2017, 09:22 PM
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Car: 1989-92 FORMULA350 305 92 Hawkclone
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Transmission: 700R4 4800 vig 18th700R4 t56 ZF6 T5
Axle/Gears: 3.70 9"ford alum chunk,dana44,9bolt
Re: Question for anyone familiar with SLP cold air intake
The single doesn't change anything about the upper rad hose. The dual was designed and intened for use with the T-ram, which points the hose under the serp belt instead of over it. The later dual kits came with a standard El Guapo cheapo chrome water neck for a SBC, which when bolted on a TPI points to the driver's rear of the engine. Then they included the most ridiculously long rad hose ever conceived to route behind the alternator and forward to the radiator.
Just one more reason my dual cold air intake is still on a shelf after 15 years. lol
Just one more reason my dual cold air intake is still on a shelf after 15 years. lol
I really think you should sell me your dual cai
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04-18-2017, 12:34 AM
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Re: Question for anyone familiar with SLP cold air intake
Who me? Would I sell it? Hmm, well I suppose that depends on exactly how many duffel bags full of non-sequential, unmarked, $100 bills we're talking about. 
Actually, I'm tentatively planning to use it finally on my current project. It'll probably only take me about another 15 years to finish completely stripping the car, refinishing, and reassembling as a completely different car... I can imagine the car finished, with the intake, that has to count for something, right?
Actually, I'm tentatively planning to use it finally on my current project. It'll probably only take me about another 15 years to finish completely stripping the car, refinishing, and reassembling as a completely different car... I can imagine the car finished, with the intake, that has to count for something, right?
04-18-2017, 06:19 AM
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Car: 1989-92 FORMULA350 305 92 Hawkclone
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Re: Question for anyone familiar with SLP cold air intake
HAHA Hoping to have one of mine installed sometime this year!