njsharkracer

I had recently bought a $30 knock-off AEM cold air intake off of ebay.

The eBay username is chromeintakes

here is the listing i bought it from

here are links to the pics i took of the system installed on my tib

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Sorry about the links, but I have yet to figure out how to post images directly using Google picasa albums to the board.

The sound is pretty good from the CAI, and not that there is a noticeable hp increase, but the engine definitely responds faster when you touch the accelerator. As for fuel economy, I have to use up a whole tank or two of fuel and see if there is a repeatable increase in mpg. I will say that it seems unofficially that the tib is getting 1-2mpg better then before.

Let me know what you think of this set-up and if you have any questions.

SOCKS_old

pretty nice.. but not the AEM knockoff.. you shoulda got the AEM knockoff, its like 10$ more but a MUCH better intake..

i love those style filters.. i have one of those filters on my turbo intake..

DTN

That's not mounted anywhere. I made a mount for an earlier CAI I had out of aluminum stock from home depot and some pipe clamps. Just find 2 bolts it can connect to (top of tranny stock airbox mount, and fender airbox mount) then bend the metal in a vice to run along the pipe and meet those two bolts.

IronFox

How do you know which one is the knock off? They all look the same to me!

lilo shark

that's the injen knock off. you should switch out the filter for a k&n.

Sparticus

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (IronFox @ Jan 13 2008, 06:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>How do you know which one is the knock off? They all look the same to me!</div>

AEM & clones get mounted in wheel well. Injen & clones are under the battery tray

daafisch

I had one of these intake when I first bought my car, its was pretty good but Im much happier with my AEM knock off that I have now

njsharkracer

DTN - it's held in place from slopping all around right now by a black cable tie around the piping and the clutch master cylinder till I can get to home depot this upcoming weekend and fabricate a correct bracket for it. Thanks for the idea though, i realized that i should have it more securely mounted after I loosened all the connections on the piping this morning to fit it better for the pics and general placement. So when i go to home depot i'll fabricate a bracket and also get the water separator for the home made catch can.

Lilo Shark - It's an injen knockoff? I thought it was an AEM. Sparticus cleared that up for me in his post. Thanks Sparticus. Maybe I should get a vinyl label made to put on the CAI that says 1/2 injen or something to that extent. I'd sport it since I don't do shows or anything.

OzFxCoupe

Looks nice but a proper CAI (filter outside of the engine bay) would net more hp gains.