home made cold air intake?
 

This is the home of the masters(doityourselfers), my question is this: if i drill a hole on the passenger side front wheel well(where stock airbox and battery sit)And use a k&n air filter hooked up to a dryer vent, will it function like a aem or iceman cold air intake? i plan to use a 3-4 in diameter vent.

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is the filter goin to stick out from the tire well

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It would technically be a cold air intake since it would be sucking in colder air from the fender area. But the dryer vent pipe wouldn't be the most efficient to flow the air through, not to mention it's going to be ugly :P

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should work fine..

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yeah it'd work fine, i made my custom RAM AIR!!!!!!! intake with a peice of exhaust pipe. it goes around the battery and down to the bottom of the car...

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no, the filter wont be sticking out of the engine bay. 91AccordLX, why would'nt the dryer vent pipe wouldn't be the most efficient to flow the air through?

i dont care if its ugly, its my car, and if i can make a cold air intake for $25, i'm gonna do it.

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when i was making mine i was looking around for ---- to use and saw some old drying vents... but the ones i had were huge... like 6inch. i just used some old 3inch exhaust pipes that were laying around.

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the dryer ---- isnt the best because its ribbed...ive used exhaust pipe...works great and its cheap

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---- that, use PVC pipe, you'll do it with $15, I bought an AEM CAI used for $20, but one of my friend did his with pvc on a 91 Accord, it's been there for months, works fine. He had the pipes laying around in his garage, got a couple of elbows and did for like $5.00.

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jeff got any pics of the old ram air intake? i think its still out in my shed

Beau

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The ribs will disrupt the air flow slightly. You won't get a nice smooth flow, which doesn't mean it won't work. It'll just be alittle less efficient and give you slightly less hp and probably sound like ----. But hey, use what you want, "it's your car".

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https://www.homemadeturbo.com/misc/ramair.jpg

now thats a homemade air intake system.. lol

we use to use this all the time when we drag raced (NA of course)

Jeff

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did that piece there go in the headlight spot? looks trick....

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The ribs will disrupt the air flow slightly. You won't get a nice smooth flow, which doesn't mean it won't work. It'll just be alittle less efficient and give you slightly less hp and probably sound like ----. But hey, use what you want, "it's your car".


damn skippy its my car

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that thing is bad ass for a home made thing

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I made my own CAI out of my stock EX intake pipe and a cheap 3in aftermarket pipe i already had on the car. I hooked up the stock pipe to the throttle... then the aftermarket pipe to the stock one... cut the aluminum intake in half and rotated it so it would be aiming down through the hole on the right fender hooked up the filter... and voila.... intant CAI...

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My B16 sported PVC till I installed the turbo.
Cost like $10. Routed into where the resonator used to be. :)
Looked ghetto, but got the job done.
Hell, if you painted it, it wouldnt look half bad.

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I use to make tons of those things for the rex. It's best to use 2.5 inch mandrel pipe (from summit) for the d16a6 and ZC motor. B16 and larger, I would go with 3". But anyway, I was the man at making these things. It was OEM quality, and the filter sat in the location of the factory resonator box. I cut that plastic peice out on the front bumper too, so you could see it + push cold air in. It also allowed me to keep the battery in stock location. This was acomplished by putting a rubber coupling where the pipe came near the positive (+) terminal, protecting from a fire.

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is it hard to fabricate thes parts from nothing and does any 1 know how to make a custom stainless steel dash to replace the stock 1 thanks "check u later"