Cheap/Home made mods

Laser93Nash · 11-02-2003, 09:12 PM

I'm on a tight budget. Are there any cheap mods I could do to my car? Like making a CAI out of parts from home depot. I'd like to know how to do that. Anyone know what I need and how to do it?? Any other easy or cheap performance mods or tips would be appreciated.

~Andrew~

workin_on_it · 11-03-2003, 01:13 AM

you could use plumbing piping(the plastic stuff) but i have heard that it gives off toxic gases from the heat of the engine bay...not sure how true that is..... and you could do a k&n and hack the air can and build a heat sheild(thats what ive done minus the piping) made a nice increase on the butt dyno....sounds way sweeter too...you can really hear the air getting sucked in......then headers and exhaust. i have a pacesetter header that i have wrapped in exhaust wrap, and a custom exhaust with no cat......hauls pretty nicely......not as nicely as when i go turbo tho....
i might also be selling my header soon since i am turboing it.....

Drifte · 11-03-2003, 09:03 AM

go to menards, thier are endless mods. If you want to replace random hoses with stainless covered ones, you can get those too. And they have plywood so you can make a really big wing.

Megags · 11-03-2003, 11:56 AM

I took the resonator under the fender off and cut a square-shaped hole into it, cut off the "neck" off of the airbox. I attached the neck to the square shaped hole and mounted it so that it would go directly into the front bumper cutout to ram air into the airbox. Used the piping from the airbox as a forced air input. I sealed all the flaws in my cutting with 3m window weld. I should probably seal up the hole that was from the neck.

I know thats probably hard to follow.

Laser93Nash · 11-03-2003, 08:18 PM

Lol. Plywood wing. Right. Only Honda guys do that. Stupid huge ass wings.

~Andrew~

dj_u4ea · 11-03-2003, 11:16 PM

yeah you can take your "throtle body" off and go to a local machine shop, have them bore it out about as big as they can,then after resetting your iac,you should get a little push up there, cost about 20-25 dollars to do this yourself, also buy a dremel. take it apart and start porting out your intake and exhaust, that helps a little too...