If i got a K&N intake system (or any other brand) would it be possible to get some extra tubing from like a hardware store and McGiver myself a CAI? Idk whats under the stock airbox...and how hard is it to get out? Idk if this is a repost but is it possible? Idk if there is a way into the front fender under the airbox in my 98.5 2.8.

 

i'm not sure what you're trying to ask...do you want to buy an aftermarket intake, or do you want to make your own? if you have a 1.8T i strongly recommend NOT going with an aftermarket CAI, especially if you don't have a big turbo. modify your stock airbox like audiboy did and pop in a k&n panel filter. check the DIY forum for a write-up that audiboy made.

 

no like i said, i gots da 2.8. But im just wondering if i could extend the piping they give u with any of those aftermarket intake kits (with some like plastic piping from a hardware store then heatwrap it) so that the filter is inside the fender and not in the engine bay.

 

aah, gotcha. i don't think that would be too difficult, as long as there's room...not sure if a big cone filter would fit down in that fender too well..check out evoms.com and look at the heat shield that they include in their kit. if you made one of those it would probably be better than trying to reroute it.

 

I think a massive heatshield would be the trick, or something to the extent of like a ram-air setup would also work pretty well. The stock airbox has that little tube from the grille that puts air into the airbox, maybe you could make that bigger for more air? Seems to me that underneath the airbox is pretty crammed, although I haven't taken mine completely out I really wouldn't know. I know on the driver's side part of the strut mounts are there and you could run into fittment issues with a cone filter.

 

yea i was thinking about maybe just heatwrapping that plastic lead that goes into the airbox...haha i thought it would be cool to get a mini-intercooler to go infront of the part where it gets the air lol

 

Yeah, a mini intercooler. LOL. Just take a radiator off a Honda Del Sol, my buddy has a Del Slow and the radiator is seriously the size of a waffle griddle. Haha. The intercooler on my dad's turbo-diesel Ford F-350 is 10 times the size of the radiator on that Honda.

 

if i wanted to get really really McGiver like i could set up a small condensor coil from some kind of refridgeration unit, and maybe hook up a nitrous spray to it to really cool it off...but thats dreaming lol. Ill probably just get some pipe insulation tape and wrap the plastic piping going into the airbox, and the piped going into the engine.

 

how about a ram air intake from the lower grill where the foglight sits on 99.5 and up? Those actually have some minor gains.

 

How would you plumb that though? Seems like it would be mad tricky.