Cold-Air Aluminum Intake

[vassil]

I finally got around to making a cold-air intake for my car, so now that's it's done and on the car, I just thought I'd share what I did. Basically everything is made out of 4" aluminum mandrel bends with wide 6" radius. I had to enlarge the hole where the original intercooler piping used to go through to about 5" and everything fit like a glove. Besides the fact that the car sounds like a vacuum cleaner under boost, I am excited that I now have lower intake temps, since the turbo does not suck air from right underneath the red-hot exhaust header and hopefully that would help my in my never-ending quest for a 9-second timeslip.

Here are some pics:

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[907dsm]

Looks good bro.. how much for you to make one just like that?? Haha

 

[9!'clipseDOHC]

Looks great! Have you thought about making a box for the filter? Check out mine here: http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/bolt-tech/395597-flow-same-air-filter-intercooler.html#post152501587, Theres also some good discussion on why a box is needed.

 

[vassil]

Yours looks very nice. I like it a lot. The only thing that I might do for mine is get another 90 degree mandrel bend and get the filter where the stock fog light used to be. Of course I will have to get a different filter that can suck from the front as well as the sides. I am thinking of attaching it with a silicone coupler and host clamps.

 

[DSM_munky_man]

K&N has some universal filters that have 45* bends in them, I dk if you could utilize that topoint it more toward the fog light area without having to have such a dramating 90 right away, idk if that would help any or not.

 

[TSIMonsteR]

you using the stock splash guard, or do you have something custom in mind

 

[96awd]

Ok, I still need to buy the 3 piece bars from you and now this!? really? Quit making things soo quick

 

[UofACATS]

I'm curious whether that air filter is big enough? If you have the space, you might consider something larger.

 

[Bud92gsx]

Was wondering on how finished with this you are , wnd when your going to do some testing?

 

[9!'clipseDOHC]

Yours looks very nice. I like it a lot. The only thing that I might do for mine is get another 90 degree mandrel bend and get the filter where the stock fog light used to be. Of course I will have to get a different filter that can suck from the front as well as the sides. I am thinking of attaching it with a silicone coupler and host clamps.

Thanks! Yeah I angled mine towards the fog light opening, you can see it better in these pics:

Not trying to thread jack, just showing you how I did mine. The filter I used is an 8" long K&N with a 3" opening. The only bad thing is that it isn't open in the front like you were saying.