Well, I decided to take a day off work to install my Injen CAI. It is a good thing I did. It took me about 3 hours. On the easyness scale from 1-10 I would give it a 3. Not many parts and only a few things to bolt on. On the pain in the butt scale I would give it a 6. The intake is in two parts. The first part, a 90 degree bent tube with MAF sensor connection went on in two seconds. Real easy. The second tube that snakes down under the battery and beside the fan was not meant for the automatic transmission in my opinion. The tube hit the transmission and could not angle in correctly. I actually had to install it upside down to get it to fit. One of the mounts then could not be connected properly and the two parts to the intake did not "butt up" correctly. Here is what I needed to do to get it to fit.
1. Remove battery and battery shelf
2. Relocate coolant reservoir
3. Take off tire and jack up car
4. Cut out a huge hole in the shroud near the driver side front wheel to make it fit.
5. Cut up original intake tubing and use it to angle two aluminum tubes together.
All in all, it sounds great. There is a definite sucking sound from the engine and the shifting (A/T) seems to be better. I just have that bad feeling because I had to move so much stuff around and I had to vary things from what the directions said and the mounting hardware did not match up correctly that something might go wrong. This is definitely a great intake, but I would say for those with the automatic to stay away from it unless you have a good knowledge of how to install one into your car.

 

where did you purchase yours and how much.. im currently shopping around for it right now.

 

I thought that their CAI didn't fit in automatics?

 

lets see some pic man, i wanna see how you did it.

 

Injen claims that it will fit manual and automatics....but I guess not.

Thanks Mellos for the write-up. You just prevented me from wasting 200 bucks and a couple hours!

 

Thanks. I will post pics as soon as possible. I was able to make it fit by taking the second pipe and turning it around backwards. There is one end of the pipe that is like 5 inches before the bend that should attach closest to the MAF sensor pipe. There is the other side of that pipe that is like 10 inches where the filter should attach. I just hooked it up backwards. 10 inch side to the maf pipe and 5 inch side to the filter. I then had to cut the ribbed flexible part of the original intake off and use that to connect the two peices of pipe. This is because when I flipped the pipe, it was higher and to the right of the first pipe. There is also now one motor mount that can not bolt up, but it is still pretty secure for what turned out to be a do it yourself project

 

i guess it's designed on the MT cars .. did you try to call up ingen to see what they say about your problem instead of just intalling it backwards?

-joe

 

No I didn't. By the time I had installed it, there were plenty of little scratches and marks on it from getting it down in the engine. If they wanted me to return it, the old intake was already cut up, so my car would be out of luck.

 

mellos,
the injen can fin the AT but you are only supposed to use half of it. so its then a SRI. full CAI from injen is for MT only