Just got the Cobb intake and was looking into making a custom heat shield but I decided to utilize the stock airbox if at all possible. There were some fitment issues. The Cobb intake protruded too far forward and up for the box to fit so it needed to be pushed back a bit and down. Luckily, the stock inlet tube is flexible and the Cobb support bracket that holds the intake from underneath can be bent and pivoted from its original position.


Below you can see the 13mm bolt that secures the Cobb bracket to the chassis. The bracket needs to be pivoted clockwise (pushing the intake to the rear of the engine bay) and needs to be bent downward (in essence making the bracket more "straighter").


Here are some more pictures with various angles.


View from filter looking out through the air duct.



View from air duct looking into to airbox.




I've yet to test whether the A/C fan will cause problems but from the looks of it there is very little space that is actually exposed to the fan so there should be no issues.

 

noob question...but does this inhibit the intake's ability to receive air at all vs. using it without the stock airbox and their heatshield?

 

Cobb does not have a heat shield available for the Evo X. This is why there are several threads on this forum to work around this problem by either making a custom heat shield or using a different mfg/universal heat shield.

 

Very cool!

I am running the same setup but with the Cobb inlet tube which is fairly rigid. Think Ill try removing the metal bracket and seeing if I can make it work like you did. If so then its bracket bending time. Thanks for the post!

 

That appears to be the best workaround for this product. The reason I bought K&N was because of the heatshield difference.

 

Did this work at all??? Thinking about doing it

 

It did but I didn't like how much hot air was hitting the cone from the fan so I purchased ABS plastic sheets and and fashioned them in a way where they attached to the bottom and passenger side of the box. This helped tremendously with fan air.