Good evening all...

I finally had to remove my friends CAI to install an SRI off ebay.
I added to it a "GREEN (Brand Name)" filter that cost me a hefty $95.







Just a few questions about noise:
very close to the SRI-Engine connection, there is a very bothering noise when i stick my ear close to it! Normal?

I didn't have to reset my ECU though.

Apart from that, as usual, a nice little whistle on accelerations, and the little extra umph on RPM ranging from 1800 to 3500.

Your pictures?

P.S. did any of you paint the heat shield here? I saw a thread about it, but no DIY. Any color you guys think would look good. My heat shield look kind of shitty...

you should shorten the blue tube that goes from the intake to your engine as short as possible. and ew green
heres mine

^ long exposure?

Did you pay $95 total?

Photoshop + opacity ftw

x-ray camera?

OK thats just cool!!!

I hope it wasnt $95 for the filter

sri is annoying and sounds like a ufo.. 95 dollars? i got my aem sri for 95 brand new

I think I got really ripped off.
I went to an auto performance parts store. They had K&N filters and Green filters. All the sales people told me to go for Green. Apparently, k&N filters contain some oil (to optimize filtering) but can cause damage to the whole intake system and make the ECU nuts. Apparently Green filters last longer, have higher air flow capcities, etc.
So I payed $80 for the Green. The K&N was selling for $60. The metal intake pipe cost me $15 including shipping.
Good deal? Ripped off??

on a 3.0 its annoying, on a 2.x its sounds great

you definitly got ripped off, AEM uses k&n filters, do you think its bad for your engine when aem is one of the biggest intake suppliers. and the green one looks really cheap and cheesey.

Fuck... I got buttrammed.
And, yeah, doesn't look as nice as a K&N filter. I'll just paint the filter red !

About the noise of an SRI on 2.3s. It's a small little whissle. Very small. At first, I thought something was wrong with the car.

Holy shit, you paid $80 for that green filter? Ouch, can't believe u paid that much for a filter :shakehead

Hope you lubed up for that

But the hum is only on the 3.0 not the 2.x's

I'm an idiot.
I didn't think about it at first. now that I look back... I'm really stupid.

Btw, what is the little nipple on the intake aluminum tube?? Should I cover it? What does it do??

Yea... you got


And the most expensive "Green" filter on ebay was $50

u couldve got an aem dryflow filter or $50

$80 for a filter holy shit

k&n's go for like $35 on ebay

for acouple bucks more you got an AEM v2 intake.....
you should go return that filter, its about as good as the one that came with your intake tube

Return a used filter??
Is that possible? What reason should I give the shop?
I'm trying this tomorrow and will get a K&N filter.

About the little nipple-hole though? Should I cover it? What is it for?

i would bitch at them for trying suckering you into buying it, its only been a day i dont see why you cant return it if it looks unused and you still have the box.

i attached the little nipple thing at the end to the one little box that was part of the stock intake near the battery on the bottom, there is a little hose that goes up that way

be like, i brought this home and opened the box and it had this hole, i want to exchange it for a K&N. i dont trust this productm blah blah blah.

I left the little nipple unatended. No hose going to it. Is it ok like that?

i think it'll be ok, i dont think its really needed to plug into the old intake

oil-less cone filters allow like 5 times more silica into your engine, which is basically putting sand into your motor.

thats why people replace the crappy oil-less filters that come with ebay intakes for oiled k&n, so that you dont go screwing up your engine. and there are many who argue that k&n filters right outta the box dont have the proper amount of oil on them and should be oiled up using a recharge kit from the get go, but thats being a lil extreme in my opinion.

can't air, impurities, dust, humidity get sucked through this little nipple?

lets see pix of this so called nipple, my intake only had one "nipple" and thats where that lil hose connected to the top of the valve cover. youre saying yours has an extra one right?

yeah mine came with one too, i have a picture of it, mine came bent and half broken

what is that hose you connected to it? is it 97 specific or what, cuz when i pulled out the stock intake i didnt see any other hoses attached to it (unless theres one plugged into the stock resonator lol cuz since i got a sri i didnt see the point in removing it.)

whats the stock resonator look like? is it the little box thing near the battery?

its the big box you pull outta the wheel well.

noo i left that there lol, i was talking about the little flat box with the only tube that was small enough for the nipple and would reach it

lol wait, i have that same box with that same hose going to it. are you telling me that if i trace that hose it should probably just be dangling cuz it was originally plugged into my stock intake?

could be

I'd tell them all that, then tell them to suck my dick after they took the filter back

go buy a vacuum cap to stick on the little "nipple" thing. I dont think that little black box does anything important.

One of the nipple things connects to the valve cover.