Another how-to from me.
Ok for those of you with any brains, no green (money not weed, potheads), and a drive for more power out of your 2.2, im sure you have tried making an intake.
THIS DOES VOID YOUR WARANTY - BE SMART ABOUT IT -
(plus if you break something like me, put your stock air intake back on and play dumb, saved me about $500)
here is an easy way to make your own.
It gained me 1 second in the 1/8th mile
cost me about 50-100 bucks depending on what parts you already have at your disposal.
(not including filter, these can vary from 5-80 dollars depending on company and quality) you can get them off ebay for 5, you can buy a quality k&n at advanced auto for 40 bucks. ask for a universal fit K&N cone filter and find the dementions you would like.
i was told it felt like it had more gain than a K&N cold air.
Materials:
1. at least 3' of 3" Pre insulated PVC (i think its called DVC? at Home Depot, Its black)
2. 2-90 degree joints
3. 1- 3" aluminum universal HINGED bend dryer duct. These have proven difficult to find. They have hinges in them so you can bend them in any direction. DO NOT USE THE ALUMINUM TUBING THAT IS JUST ALUMINUM FOIL, IT CAN NOT STAND UP TO TEH AIRFLOW AND WILL SELF DISTRUCT CAUSING MAJOR DAMAGE (take my word, metal shavings are not good in an engine)
4. (recommended) tape on insulation
5. Rubber adapter to make fitting from throttle body to pvc (i used hose from my stock intake. They adapters at home depot, but it is extreamly difficult to fit correctly. just use your head and come up with an adapter. you can buy these adapters at some car stores, but its ALOT cheaper to make your own.
6. Hack saw
7. Contact cement
8. 3" cone air filter
9. Sand paper
10. Oil breather filter (available at any autozone or advanced auto)
11. 3" hose clamp (usually comes with filter)
12. Wire for securing tubing.
Steps!
Removing your stock intake:
1. Open up your airbox
2. Unclamp the clamp that connects the tubing to your airbox and remove top section of airbox.
3. Unbolt the bottom of your airbox and pull it off of supporting bracket behind headlights.
4. Remove your intake thermometer. (if i remember correctly it just pulls out?)
5. Lift up your A/C compresser hose. They are just held down by a pop in bolt, apply enough pressure it just pops out.
6. Unclamp stock tubing from airbox by throttle body.
7. Unclamp tubing from the moisture collection box, its to the left of your radiator and the the right of your battary. the clamp is directly below yoru intake tubing.
8. Remove tubing.
9. Remove moisture collection box. (this has proven difficult, you have to twist and use force, just dont pull off your radiator hoses by mistake!)
10. Unbolt your airbox by the Throttle body. (all these boxes are ment to reduce noise, but waste gas and power in the process)
11. Disconnect your oil breather hose, behind throttle body, remember where that is, this is where your oil breather connects.
12. Remove airbox and oil breather hose.
13. Store for safe keeping. as said before, Removing all this voids your waranty, but keeping it so it can be replaced is easy and often the dealership doesnt notice or doesnt confront you about it.
Making and installing yoru intake:
1. Shave about .5 an inch off of 1 side of a 90 degree elbow. it wont make the turn off of your throttle body with the stock size.
2. Cut about a .5 inch secion of 3" pvc and put it in the shaved end of the joint.
3. Put your adapter on your throttle body and attach the pvc elbow.
4. Cut about a 10" pvc section or longer (not sure of the exact length, but its better to have more than you need.)
5. attach the second 90 degree elbow and test fit so you clear your compressor pully. Make sure you give the metal plate room because when your ac is on it will turn too.
6. cut a 5" section of pvc pipe and fit it into the pvc elbow.
7. Attach your filter to the aluminum duct and bend it to conform to where you want your filter to sit. There is a circular hole behind your headlight, behind this is the optimum location.
8. Mess around with your pipe lengths until you have good clearance all the way around.
9. Disassemble your intake. Somehow mark where all the tubes went.
10. Sand the inside edges of the pvc. when you cut lengths there are still shavings that can come lose when your car is driving, you dont want these in yoru engine.
11. Use contact cement to reconnect all your sections securly.
12. Wrap the aluminum with insilation, it gives off heat easily and kindof screws the whole "cold" part of the cold air idea.
13. Remount your intake.
14. Use the wire to secure it in place, theres a place for a large bolt and screw on your compresser that is not being used. Wrap a wire around your intake and put it through there, tying it tightly. this should keep it from shaking off your throttle body on speed bumps ect. and keep it from touching your engine.
15. wrap a wire around the intake near the filter and wrap it to teh bracket ment for your stock intake near the fuse box. this keeps the filter from hitting your wheel well and disloging the filter and any other part of the intake. this should also help in preventing your intake from hitting the pullies.
16. Attach your oil breather to the opening on the valve cover next to your throttle body.
17. Find a secure place to mount your intake thermometer near your filter (i just taped it to a braket near the filter).
18. Test and listen for whistling. if you hear whistling your intake is not airtight, locate the whistle and use contact cement to seal it, if its your adapter, then you need to come up with another adapter.
Problems i ran into fine tuning this intake:
1. I didnt cement it together the first time, it disconnected on i-40, fell onto my pully, got stuck, melted and caught on fire. CEMENT IT TOGETHER
2. Used the cheap aluminum foil intake tubing. it imploded sending aluminum shrapinel into my throttle body, but was stopped by quick thinking, aka turning it off REALLY QUICK.
3. Bad adapter. My adapter wasnt very good, intake fell off and i drove about half a mile on unfiltered air, no biggie.
4. Didnt secure it with wire. same as above.
5. Not enough clearance, turned ac on and heard BAHBAHBAHBAHBAHBAHBAHBAH then smelt burning pvc. no biggie, stopped before i caused damage.
if you fallow all these instructions your intake should preduce a very noticabe gain in power, you also have more throaty sounding engine and it complements yoru exhaust nicely by making it sound deeper.
but remember use these at your own risk, i am not responsible for any damages incurred on your truck.
check out my cardomain, i have a picture of my intake. i painted it black, sanded it smooth, used black insilation and when i took it to a car show, 9 out of 10 people thought it was a professional intake.
GOOD LUCK AND BE SMART
Leave suggestions on making that adapter and comments on your own trials!
Ok for those of you with any brains, no green (money not weed, potheads), and a drive for more power out of your 2.2, im sure you have tried making an intake.
THIS DOES VOID YOUR WARANTY - BE SMART ABOUT IT -
(plus if you break something like me, put your stock air intake back on and play dumb, saved me about $500)
here is an easy way to make your own.
It gained me 1 second in the 1/8th mile
cost me about 50-100 bucks depending on what parts you already have at your disposal.
(not including filter, these can vary from 5-80 dollars depending on company and quality) you can get them off ebay for 5, you can buy a quality k&n at advanced auto for 40 bucks. ask for a universal fit K&N cone filter and find the dementions you would like.
i was told it felt like it had more gain than a K&N cold air.
Materials:
1. at least 3' of 3" Pre insulated PVC (i think its called DVC? at Home Depot, Its black)
2. 2-90 degree joints
3. 1- 3" aluminum universal HINGED bend dryer duct. These have proven difficult to find. They have hinges in them so you can bend them in any direction. DO NOT USE THE ALUMINUM TUBING THAT IS JUST ALUMINUM FOIL, IT CAN NOT STAND UP TO TEH AIRFLOW AND WILL SELF DISTRUCT CAUSING MAJOR DAMAGE (take my word, metal shavings are not good in an engine)
4. (recommended) tape on insulation
5. Rubber adapter to make fitting from throttle body to pvc (i used hose from my stock intake. They adapters at home depot, but it is extreamly difficult to fit correctly. just use your head and come up with an adapter. you can buy these adapters at some car stores, but its ALOT cheaper to make your own.
6. Hack saw
7. Contact cement
8. 3" cone air filter
9. Sand paper
10. Oil breather filter (available at any autozone or advanced auto)
11. 3" hose clamp (usually comes with filter)
12. Wire for securing tubing.
Steps!
Removing your stock intake:
1. Open up your airbox
2. Unclamp the clamp that connects the tubing to your airbox and remove top section of airbox.
3. Unbolt the bottom of your airbox and pull it off of supporting bracket behind headlights.
4. Remove your intake thermometer. (if i remember correctly it just pulls out?)
5. Lift up your A/C compresser hose. They are just held down by a pop in bolt, apply enough pressure it just pops out.
6. Unclamp stock tubing from airbox by throttle body.
7. Unclamp tubing from the moisture collection box, its to the left of your radiator and the the right of your battary. the clamp is directly below yoru intake tubing.
8. Remove tubing.
9. Remove moisture collection box. (this has proven difficult, you have to twist and use force, just dont pull off your radiator hoses by mistake!)
10. Unbolt your airbox by the Throttle body. (all these boxes are ment to reduce noise, but waste gas and power in the process)
11. Disconnect your oil breather hose, behind throttle body, remember where that is, this is where your oil breather connects.
12. Remove airbox and oil breather hose.
13. Store for safe keeping. as said before, Removing all this voids your waranty, but keeping it so it can be replaced is easy and often the dealership doesnt notice or doesnt confront you about it.
Making and installing yoru intake:
1. Shave about .5 an inch off of 1 side of a 90 degree elbow. it wont make the turn off of your throttle body with the stock size.
2. Cut about a .5 inch secion of 3" pvc and put it in the shaved end of the joint.
3. Put your adapter on your throttle body and attach the pvc elbow.
4. Cut about a 10" pvc section or longer (not sure of the exact length, but its better to have more than you need.)
5. attach the second 90 degree elbow and test fit so you clear your compressor pully. Make sure you give the metal plate room because when your ac is on it will turn too.
6. cut a 5" section of pvc pipe and fit it into the pvc elbow.
7. Attach your filter to the aluminum duct and bend it to conform to where you want your filter to sit. There is a circular hole behind your headlight, behind this is the optimum location.
8. Mess around with your pipe lengths until you have good clearance all the way around.
9. Disassemble your intake. Somehow mark where all the tubes went.
10. Sand the inside edges of the pvc. when you cut lengths there are still shavings that can come lose when your car is driving, you dont want these in yoru engine.
11. Use contact cement to reconnect all your sections securly.
12. Wrap the aluminum with insilation, it gives off heat easily and kindof screws the whole "cold" part of the cold air idea.
13. Remount your intake.
14. Use the wire to secure it in place, theres a place for a large bolt and screw on your compresser that is not being used. Wrap a wire around your intake and put it through there, tying it tightly. this should keep it from shaking off your throttle body on speed bumps ect. and keep it from touching your engine.
15. wrap a wire around the intake near the filter and wrap it to teh bracket ment for your stock intake near the fuse box. this keeps the filter from hitting your wheel well and disloging the filter and any other part of the intake. this should also help in preventing your intake from hitting the pullies.
16. Attach your oil breather to the opening on the valve cover next to your throttle body.
17. Find a secure place to mount your intake thermometer near your filter (i just taped it to a braket near the filter).
18. Test and listen for whistling. if you hear whistling your intake is not airtight, locate the whistle and use contact cement to seal it, if its your adapter, then you need to come up with another adapter.
Problems i ran into fine tuning this intake:
1. I didnt cement it together the first time, it disconnected on i-40, fell onto my pully, got stuck, melted and caught on fire. CEMENT IT TOGETHER
2. Used the cheap aluminum foil intake tubing. it imploded sending aluminum shrapinel into my throttle body, but was stopped by quick thinking, aka turning it off REALLY QUICK.
3. Bad adapter. My adapter wasnt very good, intake fell off and i drove about half a mile on unfiltered air, no biggie.
4. Didnt secure it with wire. same as above.
5. Not enough clearance, turned ac on and heard BAHBAHBAHBAHBAHBAHBAHBAH then smelt burning pvc. no biggie, stopped before i caused damage.
if you fallow all these instructions your intake should preduce a very noticabe gain in power, you also have more throaty sounding engine and it complements yoru exhaust nicely by making it sound deeper.
but remember use these at your own risk, i am not responsible for any damages incurred on your truck.
check out my cardomain, i have a picture of my intake. i painted it black, sanded it smooth, used black insilation and when i took it to a car show, 9 out of 10 people thought it was a professional intake.
GOOD LUCK AND BE SMART
Leave suggestions on making that adapter and comments on your own trials!
