Home Made CAI

[Stefanos]

I figured I'd give this a shot considering it only cost me $20. I went to Advance and got the Spectre flexible intake tube (measures 28 inches long and 3 inches in diameter). It's just a flexible memory tube that keeps its shape. I attached it to the end of my SRI and ran it down into my bumper just like an after market CAI install. Everything seems to be working properly and I definitely feel a difference between short ram and cold air. The only thing that I had to half ass was the filter. I had to hold it up with zip ties inside the bumper because the flexible tube isnt stiff enough to hold it straight up haha. Oh well. Now for the pics!

[NitroGlisson]

Not bad at all!

[gotJDM]

Lol Stefan, you would. Copying my Spectre parts idea, eh?

[Chaos]

Is this really what our platform has been reduced to?


It's sad really

[Stefanos]

Originally Posted by gotJDM

Lol Stefan, you would. Copying my Spectre parts idea, eh?

Not gonna lie I thought of your setup when I was putting this all together.

[Stefanos]

Originally Posted by Chaos

Is this really what our platform has been reduced to?


It's sad really

What's so sad about this? It actually works really well and it only cost me $20. Why spend $200+ on an entirely new intake? It's a cheap and effective way to switch from short ram and cold air whenever you want.

[choppertwo]

Originally Posted by Stefanos

What's so sad about this? It actually works really well and it only cost me $20. Why spend $200+ on an entirely new intake? It's a cheap and effective way to switch from short ram and cold air whenever you want.

Thats cool , but the zip ties? be carefull

[Stefanos]

Zip ties are temporary. I have to get a mount for the filter and bolt it on somewhere. I have an idea of where I want it.

[rdelaney89]

haha you could put this filter anywhere with that hose haha...How do you plan on keeping it steady?

[Stefanos]

Originally Posted by rdelaney89

haha you could put this filter anywhere with that hose haha...How do you plan on keeping it steady?

The hose itself is really sturdy and steady but the filter weighs it down on the end. So what I did for the time being since I ran out of day light is use zip ties to suspend it. I was thinking about a filter mount and just bolting that on somewhere in my bumper to hold it up. There like $5 at advance.

[rdelaney89]

yea thats not a bad idea. I wonder what the difference would be since that hose has ridges in it. Should be more than SRI but prob a little less than a CAI but a lotttt cheaper.

[Stefanos]

Yeah thats the idea honestly. I pretty much made my own two piece haha. It's pretty sweet I like it and I can definitely see a better response from my car. It doesn't seem to pull as slow as it did with the SRI. You think the ridges would affect performance?

[dhe_answer]

why does the intake say diesel?

[Chaos]

Originally Posted by Stefanos

What's so sad about this? It actually works really well and it only cost me $20. Why spend $200+ on an entirely new intake? It's a cheap and effective way to switch from short ram and cold air whenever you want.

Because it looks like some Ghetto garbage and the turblance caused by those crinkles is gonna cause alot of power loss over a smoothe sided pipe. And what's sad is now that these cars have hit the used market every ricer fuck that has an autozone near their house can make their own personal abortion.

[Stefanos]

Originally Posted by dhe_answer

why does the intake say diesel?

No idea that's the one auto city imports sent me when they were out of stock on the fujita CAI. I thought the same thing. It's the same exact SRI they sell on the website just a weird name haha. Oh well. And Chaos you aren't very nice... I thought this was a cool experiment just to see if I could pull it off and shared my findings with the community. I'm certainly not a "ricer fuck." I didn't realize seeing a part at an auto parts store was "sad" and that by me purchasing it to see the result was such a bad idea. My car isn't used so I don't know where that's coming from. I bought it brand new 3 months ago... So I don't really see the reason to hate.

[Chaos]

Reason to hate is I remember when we had members myself included shelling out thousands to advance the platform and support the 1 or 2 company's who saw fit to produce and sell parts for the 4G along with members making quality one off parts not because we were cheap but because they didn't yet exist. And now people are to cheap to spend the extra few bucks on a CAI. If you wanna mod a car and want it last and perform well its time to get out the check book.

[gspower]

Originally Posted by Chaos

Because it looks like some Ghetto garbage and the turblance caused by those crinkles is gonna cause alot of power loss over a smoothe sided pipe. And what's sad is now that these cars have hit the used market every ricer fuck that has an autozone near their house can make their own personal abortion.

Originally Posted by Chaos

Reason to hate is I remember when we had members myself included shelling out thousands to advance the platform and support the 1 or 2 company's who saw fit to produce and sell parts for the 4G along with members making quality one off parts not because we were cheap but because they didn't yet exist. And now people are to cheap to spend the extra few bucks on a CAI. If you wanna mod a car and want it last and perform well its time to get out the check book.

this forum misses and needs your preachin' chaos. amen.

[Tsensational]

You should cut your springs next to lower it.

[Stefanos]

Its called an idea, an experiment, trying something unconventional and cheap just for the sake of seeing if it can be done. Im more than capable of buying a cold air intake... I feel like no one is seeing the point here. You act like im going around saying its the best way to get a cold air intake. Im not cheap, im not disrespecting our platform and no im not cutting my springs to lower my car.. Im all for more aftermarket development for our cars. I just feel like whenever someone puts up an unconventional or different approach to something they get attacked and get accused of being ghetto, cheap, retarded, etc. This is a forum for new ideas and information. I havent seen this done before on here so i said whatever lets try it for $20 and see where it goes

[Chaos]

I can assure you are not the first to attempt this and you certainly won't be the last, and if your idea is actually well executed and applied in a classy manner that's one thing . When you use little more than dryer hose and zip ties that's another thing entirely.

[Stefanos]

Originally Posted by Stefanos

The hose itself is really sturdy and steady but the filter weighs it down on the end. So what I did for the time being since I ran out of day light is use zip ties to suspend it. I was thinking about a filter mount and just bolting that on somewhere in my bumper to hold it up. There like $5 at advance.

As you can see here i explain the reason behind zip ties. This has been thought through and i have a plan to finish it up. I guess theres no winning here honestly. I guess i didnt realize Spectre made dryer hose. Maybe next time i can go to home depot for that so im not considered a ricer fuck if i go to a commercial auto parts store.

[snakeeyes]

lol,just let it roll off your shoulder bud.its your car and if it works good enough for you,so be it .i dont see how the hose is going to stay attached to the metal pipe.i for see that coming off sooner or later while you are driving.

[Stefanos]

Originally Posted by snakeeyes

lol,just let it roll off your shoulder bud.its your car and if it works good enough for you,so be it .i dont see how the hose is going to stay attached to the metal pipe.i for see that coming off sooner or later while you are driving.

Thanks appreciate that. And as for the hose... its in there trust me haha. It took enough to get it in there so itll stay. Ill probably put some clamps on there just to be safe.

[snakeeyes]

Originally Posted by Stefanos

Thanks appreciate that. And as for the hose... its in there trust me haha. It took enough to get it in there so itll stay. Ill probably put some clamps on there just to be safe.

i noticed you said you felt a diference with your cai over your injen.that right there says it works.i had the injen sri and felt a little difference when i went to the fujita.since i installed the fujita,its hard for me to get traction with my 5 speed in 1st and second on wet roads.what you have done is obviously not permanent so you can swap back and forth when need be.

[goldencub]

I'm a newbie to the 4g world and I respect both sides to this thread. I don't think that Stefan is going to drive his new Eclipse around with flex pipe for his intake. I think he was trying to understand the difference between short and cold intakes. I also understand Chaos point that quality is important and that integrity is worth more than effectiveness. In the end it gave the forum a better understanding of the difference between the two. Maybe I'm not very savy but that is what I see as the point of this thread.

[gotJDM]

The hate and flaming is going to kill this forum as it has already turned a lot of people off from it. Stefan came up with a cool and cheap idea; don't act like a jerk if you don't like it.

Sorry Chaos, but not all of us have thousands to spend on a car that will NEVER be a 0.321477 second 108754230124hp car. You want to spend thousands of dollars and still lose to a 350z, be our guest; but don't hate on other people that come up with AFFORDABLE ideas. He's not going to run into major problems with running a CAI; my SRI is homemade and I've been running code-free ever since (unlike the Injen ones).

Homemade things are NOT necessarily bad.

[Stefanos]

Originally Posted by gotJDM

The hate and flaming is going to kill this forum as it has already turned a lot of people off from it. Stefan came up with a cool and cheap idea; don't act like a jerk if you don't like it.

Sorry Chaos, but not all of us have thousands to spend on a car that will NEVER be a 0.321477 second 108754230124hp car. You want to spend thousands of dollars and still lose to a 350z, be our guest; but don't hate on other people that come up with AFFORDABLE ideas. He's not going to run into major problems with running a CAI; my SRI is homemade and I've been running code-free ever since (unlike the Injen ones).

Homemade things are NOT necessarily bad.

Amen to that. I haven't been around on the forum lately because I see a thread and it ends up being a flame fest sooner or later. If you haven't checked out the Facebook group I suggest you do because a couple users here, myself included, feel like its more friendly and supportive most of the time. I would never attack someone for an idea. Constructive criticism is needed sometimes but attacks towards someone's character and ideas aren't necessary. We're all here to learn and build from each other. That's all I really have to say about this.

[snakeeyes]

Originally Posted by gotJDM

The hate and flaming is going to kill this forum as it has already turned a lot of people off from it. Stefan came up with a cool and cheap idea; don't act like a jerk if you don't like it.

Sorry Chaos, but not all of us have thousands to spend on a car that will NEVER be a 0.321477 second 108754230124hp car. You want to spend thousands of dollars and still lose to a 350z, be our guest; but don't hate on other people that come up with AFFORDABLE ideas. He's not going to run into major problems with running a CAI; my SRI is homemade and I've been running code-free ever since (unlike the Injen ones).

Homemade things are NOT necessarily bad.

i can attest to that.i made several different design sri's and never threw a cel.when i installed the injen sri,i periodically started throwin a cel(imagine that !) with the fujita though,i have not thrown 1.

[Stefanos]

Originally Posted by snakeeyes

i can attest to that.i made several different design sri's and never threw a cel.when i installed the injen sri,i periodically started throwin a cel(imagine that !) with the fujita though,i have not thrown 1.

I haven't had any lights with my injen sri... Yet haha. I found that my car pulled really slow after an hour or so driving though. With this new setup I made I feel harder pull and haven't thrown any codes. I'm ordering my rre pulley and an aftermarket CAI at the same time right after Christmas so I'll install both at the same time. I hope I don't get codes thrown.

[snakeeyes]

i have a 5 speed with the pulley,gt tb,tb bypass,oil catch can, 3rd cat delete and 2.25 exhaust piping.when i was using the injen,that was my mods.it was pulling alot of air in.so much infact,i hated taking off in 1st with that intake.it was hard to get a smooth take off.the fujita made it nice and smooth now.

[CrAnSwIcK]

why don't you just extend the injen with some shiny aluminum 2.5" pipe...it would be just like a 2-piece CIA and it won't look shitty either...I went from a short ram, to a homemade extension using aluminum pipe i have for my turbo build, and on average shaved around .2 seconds off my 1/4 mile ET, and increased 1/4mile speed by 3 MPH...not much of a difference, but lowering the IAT slightly does infact make a difference...

[Chaos]

Originally Posted by Stefanos

As you can see here i explain the reason behind zip ties. This has been thought through and i have a plan to finish it up. I guess theres no winning here honestly. I guess i didnt realize Spectre made dryer hose. Maybe next time i can go to home depot for that so im not considered a ricer fuck if i go to a commercial auto parts store.

Yes I saw that, hense why I said you idea was poorly executed no planning I to the over all product.

Originally Posted by snakeeyes

i noticed you said you felt a diference with your cai over your injen.that right there says it works.i had the injen sri and felt a little difference when i went to the fujita.since i installed the fujita,its hard for me to get traction with my 5 speed in 1st and second on wet roads.what you have done is obviously not permanent so you can swap back and forth when need be.

Ya the buttdyno is a sure fire method.

Originally Posted by gotJDM

The hate and flaming is going to kill this forum as it has already turned a lot of people off from it. Stefan came up with a cool and cheap idea; don't act like a jerk if you don't like it.

Sorry Chaos, but not all of us have thousands to spend on a car that will NEVER be a 0.321477 second 108754230124hp car. You want to spend thousands of dollars and still lose to a 350z, be our guest; but don't hate on other people that come up with AFFORDABLE ideas. He's not going to run into major problems with running a CAI; my SRI is homemade and I've been running code-free ever since (unlike the Injen ones).

Homemade things are NOT necessarily bad.

For the record I lost to a grand total of 1 350Z from the time my car was bone stock to now. And he was modded 350zhr.

For the record you know why certain cais and sris throw the CEL.?

TO MUCH AIRFLOW obviously not an issue in your setup

[roman lujan]

Originally Posted by gotJDM

The hate and flaming is going to kill this forum as it has already turned a lot of people off from it. Stefan came up with a cool and cheap idea; don't act like a jerk if you

If your really think that this is original you are saddly mistaken ricers do this all the time Honda guy do this all the time I even know people that own trucks that do this and remove the head lights as well. And this idea is over the forums as well. But you wouldn't know that cause yall are new and don't use the sreach button.

[Steveo]

Originally Posted by gspower

this forum misses and needs your preachin' chaos. amen.

Originally Posted by Chaos

Reason to hate is I remember when we had members myself included shelling out thousands to advance the platform and support the 1 or 2 company's who saw fit to produce and sell parts for the 4G along with members making quality one off parts not because we were cheap but because they didn't yet exist. And now people are to cheap to spend the extra few bucks on a CAI. If you wanna mod a car and want it last and perform well its time to get out the check book.

Haha love it

[rdelaney89]

I'm sick of this flaming bullshit. Kid tried something to save a few bucks until he can afford a CAI. It's not like he ran that hose from the TB either. He did invest money into our cars by buying a SRI. I'm all for this patch, it's not like he's going to car shows between now and when he gets his CAI so pretty points don't need to factor in. Good work for giving something different a shot.

[Moyer627]

Yo kid you do to that car whatever you want. You bought it it's yours, who cares what other people think. Also do yourself a favor posting stuff like this in here will only get you criticized. I have asked questions on here that were plan dumb I'll admit that but at the time I didn't know any better. It would have been nice to be pointed in the right direction but I wasn't I was criticized instead. There are very knowledgable people here but there are also some disrespectful people. Just do what I do read but don't post you can learn a lot. Also I heard search over and over all I have is tap talk on my iPhone no home Internet and the search on here sux. As far as you hurting this platform. Ignore that the only thing hurting this platform is Mitsubishi.

[synthetic]

Originally Posted by Moyer627

Yo kid you do to that car whatever you want. You bought it it's yours, who cares what other people think. Also do yourself a favor posting stuff like this in here will only get you criticized. I have asked questions on here that were plan dumb I'll admit that but at the time I didn't know any better. It would have been nice to be pointed in the right direction but I wasn't I was criticized instead. There are very knowledgable people here but there are also some disrespectful people. Just do what I do read but don't post you can learn a lot. Also I heard search over and over all I have is tap talk on my iPhone no home Internet and the search on here sux. As far as you hurting this platform. Ignore that the only thing hurting this platform is Mitsubishi.

we were all noobs at some point, and will be again in other areas of life. people seem to forget that, and rather than being helpful, they attack instead. insecurities FTW!

i say good on yah for tryin something, i'm sure you could find better materials, and make it look more professional. but for 20$ who the fuck can complain about a quick and easy mod if you wanted to try out CAI vs SRI. keep up the testing and i'm sure lots of us will be excited to see what other ideas you have!

[akley88]

ive used a system like that. i can tell you having that tube against the transmission will make it really hot.

[Moyer627]

That's a good point. It won't take much to heat up the rubber flex hose. At that point it's not gonna be any better than the Sri

[Stefanos]

Originally Posted by akley88

ive used a system like that. i can tell you having that tube against the transmission will make it really hot.

I havent noticed that yet but ill look out for it. Does anyone know the measurements for the pipe that i would need if i didnt want to buy a whole new intake? like the degree of the bend and so on.