Bitium

This is kind of crazy, but is working so far....

My old short ram:


My custom:




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3.2 TL

So basically you used that black rubber tube to extend the short ram into the hole? Didn't you have to take off your bumber to attach the actual air filter to the short ram tube? Where did you get that black tube from? Is it from the stock oem intake?

jumpman

Can you tell much difference between the intake as it was originally and how you have it now?

Which seems better?

Bitium

Yeah, the black is stock. The silver is short ram. No I didn't have to take the bumper off. just took some plastic screws from the bottom fender liner. Then I put the filter on the short ram un pushed it up through the hole, then attached to the stock intake. It only took 20 minutes.



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Bitium

Well it sounds a lot better, a little quiter and deeper. Now I don't know is the sound is all cause by the putting it under the bumper ot the stock upper part has something to do with it. You could feel an slight difference at high speed since is taking cooler air. I know one thing that the sound that comes from the short and CAI is from the tubing and not from the filter, because I took the filter off when I had it install as short ram and it was making the same noise. Hope that helps


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UW RL

i don't think this setup is a very stable one. your costum intake has no brackets securing to the car so it will move around whne the car travels..

i could be wrong tho.

Bitium

I thought the same thing. but it has proven stable for now. I have gone full throttle and nothing, so is cool for now. The stock holds a lot better than short ram, and the short ram is now in a vertical possiton, the heaviest part of all this is the filter an it doesn't seem to be pulling the intake down.



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mr tl

seems ok. doesnt look that great

keep in mind that the resonator on the bottom of the black stock tubing is limiting the total power gained...though its probably making it a bit more quiter than a real cai

make sure you pluged all those holes on the bottom of the aem pipe

Bitium

yeah it doesn't look as good as a full regular CAI, but it does the job. So that's the resornator, someone told me it was the box under the bumper. Who knows....Oh yeah the holes are plugged.



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adamyankee

The box under the bumper IS the resonator box but there is also an S-shaped mini-resonator under the stock pipe as well.

Looks kind of Ghetto considering I sweated like a mule for 2 hours putting my CAI in today.

CHEATER!!!

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cool, so it was worth the $$ I spent to have mine installed

[VTEC]TL

Just get a real small dry shot of NOS. With nitrous' intercooling effect, there's no need for all this CAI bull-shiznit!

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adamyankee

Since he used the stock pipe from the throttle body out to the AEM pipe, his hoses are still attached normally.

3.2 TL

That setup seems alright, but i was wondering about two things. First, arent there O2 sensors that you have to attach to the holes of the silver short ram tube? If so where did you attach the sensors? Secondly, does the black stock rubber tubing bend at all? If it collapses than you really would be restricting air flow, right? It seems cool though!