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Ok so was in the autoparts store today picking up a pulley puller for my CJ project when I just happened to pass down the rice isle. Generally I just stroll on down and giggle, but a few new items caught my eye. So gears started to turn and 30 minutes later I had the start of a DIY intake for under $100. Here are the pics thus far. This is stage 1 @ just over $35. Here is where I need your input guys. As you can see I still need to fab up a bracket(as now I have it supported by the bottom half of the stock box) and I need to find a replacement for the slinky hose. So I there are two ways I can do this:
A. Use parts everyone can get from local autostores while still keeping this as reliable and cheap as possible. A true DIY setup which I think would benefit you guys the most.
B. Do it how I want to do it and get my autocad coords logged and take it down to our computer cnc bender and have a mandrel bent replacement pipe made with the bracket tig welded on(ie kinda like the current $250+ kits). Still fairly cheap for me since we have the equipment, but probably not something all of you have access to. In addition I would also probably make a "cold air box" much like the one that comes with the K&N FIPK kits.
At any rate pics are below. The silver adapter is a cool little maf tube that I picked up at autozone that offers different brackets for different maf sensors. The filter was just a basic k&n knockoff with adapter rings to change the size to fit the maf tube. ONly additional parts you will need are a longer clamp screw if you use the stock airbox clamp(in the pick this is where the zip tie is as I took pics on the way to autozone to get a longer screw(needs to be 1/4" longer and costs 69 cents) and you'll need to modify the o-ring that comes in the bracket kit, as all 3 kits I looked at were missing the correct size oring for the mazda adapter. Alternatively you could also just use the sensor safe black rtv in the sealing groove instead of an oring, but I wanted to be able to take this back apart for the how-to I'll be doing in a few weeks. I know this is vague, and I promise the finished how-to will contain part #s and lots of install pics along the way.
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2095401297
I let this run till next weekend when I have time to start stage II so please give me sugestions and feedback so I know which path to go next.
A. Use parts everyone can get from local autostores while still keeping this as reliable and cheap as possible. A true DIY setup which I think would benefit you guys the most.
B. Do it how I want to do it and get my autocad coords logged and take it down to our computer cnc bender and have a mandrel bent replacement pipe made with the bracket tig welded on(ie kinda like the current $250+ kits). Still fairly cheap for me since we have the equipment, but probably not something all of you have access to. In addition I would also probably make a "cold air box" much like the one that comes with the K&N FIPK kits.
At any rate pics are below. The silver adapter is a cool little maf tube that I picked up at autozone that offers different brackets for different maf sensors. The filter was just a basic k&n knockoff with adapter rings to change the size to fit the maf tube. ONly additional parts you will need are a longer clamp screw if you use the stock airbox clamp(in the pick this is where the zip tie is as I took pics on the way to autozone to get a longer screw(needs to be 1/4" longer and costs 69 cents) and you'll need to modify the o-ring that comes in the bracket kit, as all 3 kits I looked at were missing the correct size oring for the mazda adapter. Alternatively you could also just use the sensor safe black rtv in the sealing groove instead of an oring, but I wanted to be able to take this back apart for the how-to I'll be doing in a few weeks. I know this is vague, and I promise the finished how-to will contain part #s and lots of install pics along the way.
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2095401297
I let this run till next weekend when I have time to start stage II so please give me sugestions and feedback so I know which path to go next.