My Custom Cold-Air intake

[RichCaccese]

knowing that there is nothing cooler in the DSM community than having a cold-air intake, i fabbed up a little sheetmetal box in cunjunction with a custom intake pipe.

in persuit of achieving the coldest air to feed my "tired but not dead" 14b, i started a little project:

-the intake pipe is a 3" custom job done by a local muffler shop with a mandrel press, a basic K&N filter on the end.

-took the airsaw to the SMIC hole

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-bought a $9 sheet of galvanized metal at home depot. i spent a good amount of time cutting out cardboard mockups. eventually i got this, and skirted them with some vacuum lines, and added all important, whorespower adding decals for flavor.

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i also ordered a heat reflecting sleeve to slide over my intake pipe to complete the functionality.

 

[90blacktsiawd]

Lookin good. The only thing i might recomend is getting some ducting to direct air from the bumper to the hole you cut.

 

[MyBeatGSX]

Wow that looks so professional. I think I have to redo mine. I took a metal box top, cut the center out, eyeballed it, bent/cut it, and stuck it in there. It only sheilds from one side, but it was good enough to drop temps to ambient while moving.

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[staticbrainwash]

Someone should make these for 1g's. 2g's have them but 1g's are stuck sans "box". That and i'm pretty lazy, haha.

 

[thekellbeast]

2g's have them

Where? I've never seen one that wasn't home built.

 

[olmytsi]

As stated, definitely get some dryer ducting to direct air from the sidemount opening straight to the hole, you'll feel a big difference.

 

[staticbrainwash]

Where? I've never seen one that wasn't home built.

Weird, i was almost positive diamondstartmotorsports had one on their site. But it's not there now.

So apparently everyone has to make them. Oh well, the statement still stands. I wish someone would make them.

And the one the OP made is excellent, i might have to pick up some sheet metal and try this out.

What did you use to cut the sheets to shape, just tin snips?

 

[RichCaccese]

as it sits now, the air filter is directly above the SMIC hole. gsxitement (who helped me with the fab) also suggetsed ducting air directly from behind the fog light.

What did you use to cut the sheets to shape, just tin snips?

yeah the tools used were tin snips, some wood blocks, and a small shop hammer.

 

[thekellbeast]

What I'm going to end up doing way down the road, when I get a font mount, is the same thing as this. The only difference is I'll use a plasic or metal elbow that fits around the stock bumper hole and does a 90 up to the stock UICP hole. A more direct route that forces the air to straight to the air box.

 

[Smitherines]

Weird, i was almost positive diamondstartmotorsports had one on their site. But it's not there now.

So apparently everyone has to make them. Oh well, the statement still stands. I wish someone would make them.

And the one the OP made is excellent, i might have to pick up some sheet metal and try this out.

What did you use to cut the sheets to shape, just tin snips?

Hey bro, just get short route piping when you get a fmic, keep your fogs, but put the filter in the uicp hole, and the air that would of hit the smic will now be forced into the airfilter. Im going to do that ASA I get my FMIC!

 

[MyBeatGSX]

The only downside to that is that you now have a very abrupt 90* bend in your intake pipe. That's not the best thing for flow.

 

[thekellbeast]

It's a lot better than an open filter just sucking in hot air from the engine bay.

 

[RichCaccese]

put the filter in the uicp hole, and the air that would of hit the smic will now be forced into the airfilter

i actually had this set-up in mind originally. with the air filter hanging down in the wheel well, it looked as if hitting a bump, or a hard left turn would have caused contact with the tire. if you try this, deffinatly go with a very small air filter.

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edit: i air-saw'ed the SMIC hole much larger this afternoon btw, much more open air.

 

[gsxtacy]

Great job.

Unfortunately, Custom parts are just that...Custom.

They cannot be mass produced because no one uses the exact same set-up. It would be great if someone would mass produce them for the original Air Filter/Mas location.

I also recommend ducting to direct the oncoming air up to the filter. You've gone 90% of the way to a more effecient Intake Air Reduction... there's still more to the project.....I cannot remember the guy that did this:

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But I have been wanting to duplicate this set-up for awhile now...

 

[staticbrainwash]

Thats BEAUTIFUL. Whoever did that gets the big stupid phat mad typte bomb props (if i can so elequently quote ryan renolds). That's exactly what i'd go for when i fab this up. I might do it anyway just for the cool air for now and just work around the UICP, but i agree that getting a FMIC and doing the ducting is MUCH easier.

Except i'd do it with some nice shiny piping thats mandrel bent. Seeing all the ridges in the ducting in those pics is an eyesore. And there's nothing wrong with making something pretty AND custom. Like my hardpipe recirc. tube, pretty and functional.