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| Intake Insanity |
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Note that this is only a fair-weather intake and shouldn't be used while
in hurricanes or typhoons. I have driven with it in a light rain and
nothing bad happened except that the dust from earlier in the day embedded
itself a little more. This intake (obviously) is MY00/01 only since I don't have to deal with a MAF sensor at all. Please do not try this if you are interested in keeping your air filter very clean. :-) The intake makes a LOT of noise (it'd drown out a medium-loud exhaust at WOT fairly easily), but it is only loud when you apply more throttle. Performance, as always, is the issue, and it has definetly improved. I do not believe I lost any low-end, but the benefits of it's high-end now are unbelievable. It pulls very hard all the way up to redline and I actually am about 5-8mph faster in the 1/4 mile (measured on a rough 1/4 mile stretch that I always shoot down on my way home).
The other thing I've included is some pics of my home-made under-hood
scoops for the hood vents. I leave them open all the time and wash the car
with them like that as well. They are (don't laugh) cardboard coated in
duct tape since I didn't have a better material to work with. People ask
why I even bother, but the scoops actually drain down between the engine
and fenders exactly where the stock vent covers do, so nothing that
shouldn't get wet (ie: fuse box) is getting wet. |
| The Pictures |
An explanation for each row of pictures is below them. You can also view
larger versions of the pictures by clicking on them.
 Long distance and getting closer... You can see how dirty the filter is - most of it is from driving with it like this, but to me it is very worth it. :-)
Close-up view. Note the damage on the filter from where the bolts from the underside of the hood scoop hit. It isn't actually too bad, but the main thing to note about it is that those two bolts hold down the filter and box in place perfectly. If you look at the second picture, you can see the ~90° of coolant hose connecting it. I got it through a friend's dad, but I'm sure you can get it anywhere. It is 2.5" ID and actually had to be stretched over the TB since the TB is 2.75" OD. Note that the hose doesn't have a clamp on it - I put clamps on there twice and both times they broke so I gave up seeing as it was on there so tightly to begin with. :-)
The view with the scoop closed. You can see that it should be down a little more, but where it is now sets it up extremely well for being held in place by those bolts - which you can see in the second picture.
My under-hood scoops. Very simplistic and very easy to make (15-20 minutes each with a readily amount of cardboard and duct tape around). :-)
Well, this concludes the introduction to my intake. I hope you all got ideas from it and modify it and make it better (and tell me about it). Good luck to anyone who wants to try it and I'm sorry if you have a MAF-based car and can't do this yourself. Enjoy! :-) |
