Unsuccessful Cold Air

[riceroaster]

Making a custom cold air is harder than it looks guys, I tried doing it without relocating the battery and after 5 hours and lots of dremeling I am stuck with my stock intake. I will try again next week sometime but for now my head is between my legs :( I was able to make a custom chip for my friends Camaro but not a !%#% intake!!! I will keep you all posted on the progress that I make with it.

[GrandMasterKhan]

can you provide any more details about what went wrong? where did you try and route the piping through?

[riceroaster]

First I took the battery out because it would create more space to work with, but I did not want to relocate it so I left the casing and stand in there. If you go almost straight down from the intake there is a small opening next to the battery stand and this is where I tryed to route mine becuase once you get through there you have a lot of space next to the trans. Here is where I had some problems, the toobing would fit but I could not bolt it onto anything and I did not want my intake to just be sitting there. The dremmeling took place because we needed some type of adapter to go from the filter to the MAF which we were trying to bolt down. We got a piece of PVC that could be bolted to the existing holes on the MAF and the system looked like it would work, but we could not get the MAF and adapter to bolt to the car the way that we would like and it was getting late so we put it off for another day. I think we are going to use some 45 degree PVC the next time and try to find another way of getting passed the battery. Hope you understood all that

[cwtIII]

My "cold-air" was not as unsuccessfull...
I bought a ram-air kit and ran the ducting through the driver's side inner fender and down behind the lower grill opening next to the foglight housing. (Of course this required me removing the wheel, inner fender skirt and and lower radiator splash shield for the install...re-installed everything when it was done and everything fit back into place.) I mounted the scoop there beside the foglight behind the grill, and then mounted the other end of the ducting to my filter...works pretty well, and I didn't have to move the battery an inch! I did have to remove the tow hook that's bolted to the subframe to give some extra room to run the ducting though.
Charles

[riceroaster]

ok thanks I will check that out later this week sometime, hopefully I can get it done somehow because relocating the battery would be a pain in the ass.

[mindtrip1016]

Building a custom cai is not something that can be done on the fly. It takes much preparation and measuring. Honestly, I don't see how you are going to be able to make the bend with a 90 degree or even 45 degree PVC pipe. It was tough for me, and I even had my battery relocated. If you are going to try to make the bend in front of the tranny, get some a rubber 90 or two, found in the plumbing section. It will have a lot more "give" to it and it is a sharper 90 instead of a sweeping 90.

[riceroaster]

Yes that is what I was going to try to do, and trust me I know that it cannot be done on the fly I have done a ton of work on cars. We almost had it last time but it was getting late and we all wanted to go out so we decided to put it off until later in the week. I am going to check it out later and let you guys know how it goes, but I really do not want to relocate the battery I will find a way. Plus, using 90 degree bends is not a good idea because it restricts airflow massively, when I have it done I will post some pictures.

[mindtrip1016]

How does a sweeping 90 degree restrict air flow? Are you using plumbing PVC? Electrical PVC has no restrictive bends in it. Just a smooth sweep. The rubber 90's that I recommended do not have any restrictive bends either.

[rista]

Originally posted by: mindtrip1016
How does a sweeping 90 degree restrict air flow? Are you using plumbing PVC? Electrical PVC has no restrictive bends in it. Just a smooth sweep. The rubber 90's that I recommended do not have any restrictive bends either.

i think he's talking about welding two pipes together so that they for a perfect 90 degree bend. like the shape of an 'L'. i know what you are talking about and i'm pretty sure that would work since on many many cold air intakes they do that with the pipe

[riceroaster]

oh ok sorry I missunderstood what you were talking about, ya that is what I am going to try. Let me know if you guys have any other tips before I get to work, thanks