jaeravenal

Yeah i hope it doesnt though :[, i put the wheel well back in but i know that wont block out water if i go through a dip or something, back to the drawing board!

DLntheCL

im attempting this same setup. did the OP delete one of the throttle bodies? what to do with the wires and hoses?

usdmJON

Not sure if you are just trying to be funny of serious.
I agree that CAI is ghetto as hell.
But any intake system that puts the intake filter away from the heated part of the engine, or draws air from a cooler part of the engine is a cold air intake.
Any intake with a short body to utilize a quicker flow of air is a short ram intake.

G-Take is some random slang from some random suburb and no one else is going to use it. Stop trying to make fetch happen.

DLntheCL

its ghetto because p2r no longer makes the 4 inch intake, so you must do a DIY method if thats what you want, not to mention CT ice boxes are hard to come by. id rather have a ghetto PVC 4 inch intake than spend $200+ on a 3 inch.

Stephen00TL

this is what I did, airaid UBI 4" tube with k&n air filter and relocated IAT sensor to the intake as well.

usdmJON

Proper^
Grab some 4in straight pipe to push that filter further down into the bay and you'll have a real proper 4in CAI.

brian6speed

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^ x 2.

I bought a 4" UBI tube kit from airaid also. I will extend it down behind the bumper fog light vent. I will post pic once I install it.

usdmJON

Good man.

I need to mimic this set up in the future as well as a velocity stack and oversized filter.

brian6speed

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Yep. I have a 4" velocity stack and a k&n filter with a 6" flange to fit on the velocity stack.

byRatify

For $30 more you can just buy the Spyder Auto Cold Air Intake and not have to deal with cutting parts of the car and what not. lol. Much simplier if you ask me.

03 tls nc

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Stephen00TL that looks way better then the PVC.

brian6speed

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Here is a pic of my install so far. I still need to finish the part behind bumper and wrap tubing with my heat reflecting tape. I will post finished pic soon.

This layout will not work with the stock battery in stock location but the 90 degree bend will when I make a 2nd intake to sell.

This can be a cheap intake option but I would not consider this ghetto. The tubing was 90 shipped and I have enough to make 2 intakes.

03 tls nc

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Brian stupid question but the inside of the pipe is smooth, with out those ridges every few inches? That looks good and I like your battery.

Brandon Allen

[QUOTE=brian6speed;14720522]Here is a pic of my install so far. I still need to finish the part behind bumper and wrap tubing with my heat reflecting tape. I will post finished pic soon.

This layout will not work with the stock battery in stock location but the 90 degree bend will when I make a 2nd intake to sell.

This can be a cheap intake option but I would not consider this ghetto. The tubing was 90 shipped and I have enough to make 2 intakes.
HMU when you get the 2nd intake made. I have the stock battery and would be interested. Plus I have a SRI at the moment and do not want to spend ~200 on a new CAI.

usdmJON

That recent picture looks great.
The non 90 degree bend will allow for a lot better air flow as well.

Fuck, roll over to your local college and pitch to some science class that you need a section of tubing designed to INCREASE air flow, volume, mass, anything. Fit that piece in and you'll have a home made AEM style CAI V2.

Brandon Allen

Wow I really fucked up on quoting that lol
Brian I would be interested in buying your second intake if you get it all together.
I would like to do this myself but I am working 6 days a weeks and don't have the time.

brian6speed

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Those ridges are there to cut in between and then the ridge helps hold the coupler on the tube. The inside of the tube is flat and smooth. The silicone reducer does have some transitions that step down inside. Not sure if that helps or hurts flow. It is the best designed silicone reducer I have seen at 6" long. All the other silicone reducers are only 3" long and the transition is only 1". You want a longer smoother transition than that. I am actually going to grind off those extra ridges and wrap intake tube with gold heat reflecting tape. Will post pic later tonight.


I will let you know. I will have 3 intakes for sale. 2 6speed ct iceboxes and a 4" UBI one.

brian6speed

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Finished up my intake today.

Here is the velocity stack attached to the 4" tubing. You can see the tubing is thicker than the velocity stack and it leaves that hard edge.


I beveled the edge on the inside of both sides of the tubing to help with airflow.


I sanded down those ridges and the mold seam. Then I hand sanded the intake to smooth it out.


Then I rubbed spray adhesive on it and wrapped it in heat reflective tape. The spray adhesive helps bond the tape to the plastic.


I used these pieces of rubber with a sticky backing for the intake to sit on.


Finished intake




The intake turned out better than I expected. I was able to install it without removing bumper or jacking the car up. I just peeled back the fenderwell trim and installed velocity stack and filter from below.

Here is what I came up with for the 2nd intake to clear the stock batter. You would need to grind down some metal for it to fit thru the hole like I did tho, just not as much needed. Also the first section of tubing coming off the tb will need to be shortened like Stephen did. The length depends on if you have a tb spacer, thermal gaskets, and silicone reducer length.

I only had the one silicone coupler so I couldn't make it into one piece.



This pic shows how the tubing comes from airaid.

usdmJON

PERFECTION!!!

Only thing I would change is grab a reverse conical filter.

But I dont think I have ever seen an oversized filter that will fit over a velocity stack with a reverse conical filter but Im sure they are out there.

Id keep the current set up with velocity stack if it came down to that vs a simple 4in reverse conical.

brian6speed

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I was looking for a filter like you posted but didn't see one in the size I need. If you can find one with a 6" inner diameter flange let me know. A 4" with a built in velocity stack would work also.

The biggest on K&N's website is 3".

brian6speed

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I found one.

http://afepower.com/shop/custom/filter.php

Stephen00TL

Nice work Brian the reason I didn't run mine into the bumper was because that area gets real wet and didn't want to risk getting water in the engine. When I built it a friend had his computer hooked up to the obd2 port and it was only reading about 8 degrees warmer than the air outside. with stop and go traffic

brian6speed

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I don't drive my car much in rain anyway so I am not really worried about that. That area seems not to get wet on my car unless I spray hose on it.

I also gutted my foglight vent cover so cold air is rushing thru to the filter.

You could make a setup like the icebox but just use 4" tubing. Make a box to house the filter. I would probably go with aluminum. It would require some fab work tho.

usdmJON

Nice. I was actually going to direct you herehttp://afepower.com/shop/custom/filter.php
You can build your own to get specific dimensions.

usdmJON

Check out spectre for good diy intake parts!

Brandon Allen

Are the fog light vents blocked off or something? I haven't really paid much attention.

gnuts

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yes the 03 fog light inserts are solid. I think Brian drilled out the back of it so it funnels incomming air to his intake.

jaeravenal

whoa! all these diy intakes formulating! I love the DIY ethic keep it up guys!
I miss my acura CL
RIP

jaeravenal

The intake on my car was similar to this
it was a 4.5 intake if you use the 4 inch pvc piping from home depot xD

its a nice brand, it's dry flow and they aren't that expensive

Brandon Allen

Damn I figured when Acura put in vents they would actually be put to use... I have to do something with mine.

brian6speed

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Damn you already wrecked. Do you ride peoples rear bumpers a lot?

Here is what I did. I cut out that fake vent section and opened up the hole to a nice shape then painted them. Then I bought mesh from mcmasters cut out size I needed and bent them to shape. Then I had them powdercoated. Final step is using sealant to attach mesh then install.

Brandon Allen

Hell yea those look a lot better painted to match your car. I'm sure I can buy that mesh just about anywhere. What kind of paint did you use? And do you go buy the paint code to know it will match?
Also just know ahead of time how do you get the vents out?

brian6speed

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I had a bodyshop paint them when they painted my car few years ago. I don't trust my painting for bodywork.

The vent has a screw holding it in. Use a flashlight and look at the vent from behind by looking thru lower grill from the middle of the car. You should see the screw head. Use a long screw driver to reach it. Unscrew then it pops out.

Not sure if that will make sense to you. If not I can take a pic.

jaeravenal

[QUOTE=brian6speed;14725033]Damn you already wrecked. Do you ride peoples rear bumpers a lot?



No I was actually a safe driver :'/
I was at a protected left turn light, 1st in line to turn left 1 street away from my home.
Light turns green, clutch in, roll off, go ; start turning
and then
GIANT UNLICENSED UNINSURED LAWN MOWER TRUCK APPEARS IN FRONT OF ME AND I SMASH INTO IT

They ran their left light, coming off the freeway at 1000 mph

Damn; I miss my car

brian6speed

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[QUOTE=jaeravenal;14725692]Sorry to hear. My first cl was totaled back in 2002 also.

I supported the intake using a 18" zip tie. I removed the wire clip and opened up the clip hole for the zip tie to go thru. This thing is definately not moving at all now.


I added 2 1/2" K&N crankcase filters. Is there a better way to do this?




I was looking at the ct icebox earlier and think I came up with a solution to modify it.

First off this is the 4" UBI tubing. I should point out the outside diameter is 4" but the inside diameter is actually 3.6".


Here is the tubing that attaches to the bottom of the icebox. The inside diameter is 3.3".


Here is the top section of the icebox tubing. It has an inner diameter of 2.5 or 2.6". This is what I would replace.


Here is the icebox filter and the tube it connects to. The filter has a 4" inner flange diameter perfect for 4" UBI tube.


So you could upgrade the top tube section to 3.5" or 4" tubing. Then you would use a 3.5" or 4" filter.

Here is the filter on the 4" UBI tubing.


Then all you need to do is open this hole up to 3.5 or 4".


So the setup would be a velocity stack with 3.3" Inner od tubing going to the icebox. Then a 4" filter attached to tubing that is 3.6" inner od or a little less if you go with 3.5". Then just need a silicone reducer that goes down to 3" for the tb.

I might keep one now so I can modify and keep it incase I want to use in the future.

brian6speed

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Here are the 2 top tube sections.

03 tls nc

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nice work that is awesome!!

CL REASON

brian6speed why cant you drill into the UBI tubing and put vacumm fittings in it and run the hoses to it im looking to do this but i want to run the hoses to the intake instead of filters???

Stephen00TL

You can do that. I did it the same way Brian did

gnuts

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just use one of these: http://www.garage16.ca/ProductDetail...oductCode=2897