Yea, I'm having the same problem as some of the other folks. The bolts wont come out. Ill have to wait again until saturday to give it a try. Also, I got the $20 one, and not the $25, its about a half inch or so smaller. Is that extra half inch going to really affect anything? I havent taken it out of the box yet so I can take it back. They didnt have a big red one, only blue and silver (I got a RR x).

 

Man, my bolts came off easy as hell. Weird.

 

Not hard at all, just follow the steps. Its just a bunch of screws to unscrew and screw in the filter and yes you would still need to reset the ECU even if you did get a reflash. Dont worry this is actually easy compared to what i had to do to install an air intake on my Grand Prix

Just to explain it further to you, the Heat Shield is to protect the air thats getting sucked in from getting hot, you want the air to be cool when it gets to the engine (laments terms) because if the air is hot already it has a high rate of pre detonating (exploding before its suppose to in the combustion chamber)

If you can use a screw driver and a wrench then you can do this mod and take your time learn as much about the car as you can especially why this is a good mod etc..

good luck

 

By resetting the computer when you disconnect the battery will I then loose the reflash?

 

So I glued the brass insert back into the stock airbox this evening and took the car out. It seems fine, no isses. I was originally going to seal up the back side of the brass insert with some epoxy, but I want to see how well the epoxy sticks to the PP before doig so. It would really suck having the epoxy "plug" fall out and suck into the turb, given that it's behind the air filter. There's no vacuum leak since the MAF rubber seal is sealing the bolt in that area, so there's no issue from that standpoint. Granted, the best option is to just swap on a cone filter instead of epoxying the brass insert back in.

 

Do you have to reset the ECU if i get the factory reflash then install the filter?

 

What noise?

 

I do it every time I put a new mod on.

Um, I would hope not.

 

With the hood vent being right above the filter, would water get on it and get sucked up? say like during rain? i noticed this today as i washed my car. i installed the spectre cone filter from autozone.

 

Thats the same question I had...Would the water cause damage to the cone?

 

all the filter are oil coated. water will just run off. probably less water when the car is moving. they are pressurized for hot air to go out not get pulled in.

 

Ok, I wondered the same thing and realized that after rain when I popped the hood there was no water on it, same when I washed the car. The only way is when the car is wet and you open the hood...the water starts to drip on the cone. So try to avoid opening the hood when the car is wet people. IF you have to than just be slow and careful.

 

yea from my experience this would probably, give you a lot of cool sounds.

and wouldnt worry about the engine bay being a heat soak area, since the air it sucks up, has to go through the intercooler so it should cool down.

cosmetic gains, and cool sounds, hear the turbo and the bov better.

 

I just added the Spectre cone filter but didnt notice any difference. Actually the only difference I noticed was a Whooooshhhh or high wind sound when going over 3K RPM. Is that normal? It scared the crap out of me the first time I heard it...

 

its normal thats the turbo spooling up i love that sound