It looks sweet. I will only assume that the Y shaped thing is supposed to go INside the sillicon tough The whole setup looks like Pontiac's ram air.

 

hmm, thats a lot of curves for a sri, cant imagine the air flow is too smooth

 

So you're pulling intake air from directly above the motor? That strikes me as a great way to suck in lots of very-hot air.

 

I was thinking the same thing. You'd be right above the headers and you can fry an egg on those pipes after a about a minute of driving. I don't suppose having two seperate filters would be a good idea, anybody know?

Fox

 

I can't imagine a single negative of having separate intakes...

 

So long as the pipes for the intakes were the same length the pressure should be the same, right or is that even a concern? You are however restricted on the pasengers side... you could just run a CAI or SRI off the drivers side.

Fox

 

yeah i just saw the pics. Too bad they will not fit! Theres not enough room above the engine and header to fit those pipes with a big filter, plus the maf doesnt reach that far. I'm a little disappointed. Wonder how much without the piping.

 

the only downside of separate intakes (meaning you will remove the maf right?) is the cost of a standalone. unless you mean put the maf on this setup then get your own Y pipes to come off and go to cooler air.

 

what about getting the NSC heat sheild?????

yeah i know ...its may not be much to stop all the hot air getting in but something is better than nothing.....

i was thinking that it is too much pipeing and that it wont clear the hood.....


i think i still might get it but not put it on till i get a stand alone.....are those greedy emange (the universal one) any good???

 

i dont think the emanage works as a standalone. I'm also probably wrong. If the piping does clear the hood, you could just get as much heat shielding, ceramic coating as you can and use it. It will put the intake filter right in front of the grill so you would get some pretty good airflow. A2 also offers jet or ceramic coating for turbos, headers, o2 housings, and turbo manifolds. You could send your header in to get ceramic coated.

 

ummmm
i dont know how long i can go with out my car???

how much is it for the jet coating??
i need to find out....
i guess if i was to go that way i might as well wrap the headers too...

but what aobut the wireing for the maf..do you think it is too far to reach???

 

I thought about having a cold air intake on the left side, and then two intake pipes connecting to it. Sure it will be a longer distance for the air in the left throttle body to travel...but should it really matter? And you can always use heat wrap to isolate intake pipe from the heat coming from the headers. And I right about this?

 

yeah i dont think the maf will reach. I pmed prench about the piping and told him I expected the filter to be more to the right where it usually is for the maf with one pipe going into the right TB and another going around, over the header and into the left TB. Maybe they'll make a quick change.

 

I got a reply back about the piping: yea, theres plenty of room in the engine bay, also the piping would be routed over to the driver side to direct heat away from it. also the pipes are ceramic coated to disperse hot air.
I guess I'm just going to get it and hope it works good. If not, I'll let them know and get it custom piped. Is there any reason why it would work right if I had the right pipe short and the left pipe really long? or would that work just as good?

 

It's not hard to extend MAF's wire, and also sure there is enough space in the engine bay, just use it wisely. Honestly drucea, do plenty of research before because you will have to get tuned. Otherwise you will most likely be running pig rich or sometimes lean..who knows. If you don't know how to tune then learn that first before getting yourself into a lot of problems.