Custom intake, What style? Discuss?

[Savage_383]

This guy had the right idea HAHA!

 

[keto06]

I gotta find this one pic. Local dude who used a Tide bottle to create a "ram" air intake.

EDIT: FOUND IT!

 

[gotboost]

hey guys nothing wrong with making your own intake. Most shops start the same way you do by testing. There is companies that have spent $$ thousands of dollars R & D and still can't get it right. I not saying name of company but very large import tuner that me and two other STi owners spent over 2 weeks testing and tuning with couldn't get a sri intake and fmic to work or flow right even after hrs of tuning. they had to end up redoing the whole set up .
i know not every one can afford a big name or brand parts. So if you can do it your self then do it. Just watch what your doing and learn from it.
Im going to build my own intake , dp and catback and piping.

 

[Sugardaddy2885]

I finally received in the couplers I ordered so hopefully Ill have some time to start messing around with mine.

 

[wingman]

I finally received in the couplers I ordered so hopefully Ill have some time to start messing around with mine.

Cool, which ones did you get. Can you provide a link?

 

[Sugardaddy2885]

Cool, which ones did you get. Can you provide a link?

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This is the elbow I ended up buying. The quality seemed to be pretty good when I was playing with it.

 

[wingman]

I cant remenber what bends are on the charge pipe. Are there two 90 degree bends? What is your end goal, to smooth out the charge pipe? Do yo have the turbo?

 

[Sugardaddy2885]

I cant remenber what bends are on the charge pipe. Are there two 90 degree bends? What is your end goal, to smooth out the charge pipe? Do yo have the turbo?

I just plan on working on an intake first but it all goes well I may do the other piping afterwards. I have to save up for a tune before I spend too much money lol

 

[Sugardaddy2885]

So I kind of ended up going a different route with this. For the last month I've been testing out something I made to completely remove the bottom of the air box. I just used some 1/2" steel and cut/bent/welded it to the shape I needed to mate with the top side of the intake box. The intake sounds throaty, louder spool and louder bypass valve. Plus looks pretty stock just looking at the engine.

 

[esymr2]

With the mount that you welded together, does it allow you to eliminate the entire bottom half of the stock air box? So this would leave the top half in its approxiatemate stock location suspended with the air filter held up against it?

 

[Sugardaddy2885]

With the mount that you welded together, does it allow you to eliminate the entire bottom half of the stock air box? So this would leave the top half in its approxiatemate stock location suspended with the air filter held up against it?

Correct, I plan on trying to make a small heat shield and I need to add a mount to hold it at the stock height.