So i bought a ebay intake (mainly cost reasons) and aside from the filter, its essentially the same as a aem v1. Well i found out there is one other difference, the fact that it doesn't come with "nipples" for the hoses. Take a look at the following picture and you'll see (first, its on backwards) second there is a rubber grommit thingie with a hole in it? You can see its right next to the filter. I'm not sure how you rig this up?



has anyone successfully installed one of these? can you give me some pointers on install? or did i just waste $40? Don't flame me for buying one of these, i just don't see paying $240+ for a CAI when i can get one that does 80% of the same job for a fraction of the cost.

 

Dude I think you got F'd in the A

 

^ I'm gonna go with this one.


^ Can you see it now?

Well, actually, you can try it 5 more times and you might break even.

 

I guess your starting to "see" why now.....

 

Damn.......X beat me to it!!!

 

lol, yeah, doesn't anyone have a dunce icon?!

The way i see it, is that i spent $40 to educate the s2ki on why AEM charges so much and not to go with cheap knockoffs. And also i'm sure that $40 went to feed some starving asian child in a sweatshop in asia somewhere.

you live and learn, but I'm going to make a trip to homedepot and see if i can find a solution to this problem.

 

Actually, this has been done before, but those guys got the intake that had the right bends and holes in the right places. (You were THAT close.) .............. (Spoken in "Maxwell Smart voice.)


I think I spoke too soon. You can make it work.

1. Follow the pipe from the "B" toward the "8 o'clock" position to just before the bend and cut the pipe.
2. Spin the rest of the pipe (with the filter on it) 180 degrees and buy yourself another blue connector and 2 clamps and join the pipe back up.
3. Spin the pipe (with the filter on it) around at that lower blue connector and see if the length is adequate enough to reach in and around the area behind the fake airduct. It just might make it if you pound the crap out of those last two bends by the filter.
4. Plasma cut that lower bung and plug the hole with another blue connector and clamps.
5. Plasma cut a new hole and weld the old bung near the top where it goes into the throttle body (for the front valve cover breather).
6. Plasma cut another hole a bit further down from the relocated bung and install another custom made bung for the air pump.
7. Don't worry about those two "U" shaped attachment brackets. Some well placed LARGE zip ties will do the trick.
Cost to do all this at a welding shop? Maybe a couple hundred.
BTW, that air filter is probably worth 40 bucks by itself - almost.

 

got it working! extra $4 and a trip to homedepot! pictures to follow!

 

This, I gotta see.

 

Me too.