Hiding intake... Idea!

[Bigglesworth87]

Ok, so I live in California and having a modified car is obviously a difficult thing to do. Sure you can have C.A.R.B numbers on almost everything and you should be fine. Well not us Talon owners. Every C.A.R.B number I come across is for Eclipse only and it must be listed under Talon. I know it sounds retarded but this is straight from the State Referee's mouth. Well I had an idea and I thought I would pitch it to you guys to see if its lame or if it will even work.

Trying to disguise modifications is actually fun. I have gone through and painted all of my intercooler pipes/intake pipe and bov a flat black. It turned out fairly decent actually. I am going to be cutting up an old intercooler pipe and using those as couplers for the intercooler pipes. The only thing I am having a problem with is hiding the air filter. Then as I started looking at the stock piece I realized that the upper portion of the air box is removable. Then It dawned on me that the 4 bolts used to attach the air box to that MAS can be removed from the whole air box. So I then attached the adapter plate from my injen intake to the inside of the top piece of the air box. The only problem I have run into is the outer diameter of the filter is too large to be re connected to injen adapter plate. So, my question for you is will a K&N filter/adapter fit in the air box? Will this be hurting the performance of the open element filter? I am just looking to hide the filter because its the first thing a cop is going to see. Open to any opinions here!

 

[Melio]

I say move to a non communist state.

 

[larsrya8]

My K&N FIPK came with a C.A.R.B. number. I have the sticker right above it on the strut tower.

Or do you have a universal K&N?

 

[Bigglesworth87]

Your carb number is going to be for Eclipse only, and not Talon. Ive gone over it with the ref and all he can say is "I know its the same damn car, but on paper its not. So its illegal." I dont have the K&N yet, but I was looking at it because of the design. Its not a large round cone like my injen one.

 

[larsrya8]

Your carb number is going to be for Eclipse only, and not Talon. Ive gone over it with the ref and all he can say is "I know its the same damn car, but on paper its not. So its illegal." I dont have the K&N yet, but I was looking at it because of the design. Its not a large round cone like my injen one.

Oh sorry, I missed that from your first post. Have you tried calling K&N to see if they can get it certified for both? It's worth a shot.