Home made CAI?

by **methyl mike** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:31 pm

Hey I stil have stock airbox, is there any way that I can modify into some kind of custom CAI? Im thinking of getting some tubing from home despot and running it down near the driver side foglight or something. Oh yeah BTW I have both a K&N filter and a TRD filter, anyone know if one is better than the other? Thanks...

by **StockSolara** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:44 pm

It's the same like asking which is better TRD or Eibach Springs

by **Grazi07** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:52 pm

You could try it, but I doubt it'll make that big a difference. The stock airbox doesn't end where it appears, it does continue down into the fender. The difference between stock and a CAI or extension is that the CAI is one piece, hence less restriction to the flow of air.

I had my shop make me a CAI and it works well. I bought a short ram and used some 3" piping and fittings to extend it through the fender. You'll need to carve away some of the fender inside the engine bay, but it's not going to affect the structural integrity of the frame. I used the Ebay special intake and it ran fine all summer. Fair warning though, when the weather turned colder up here, I ran lean and blew a knock and I think the CAI had something to do with it.

If you want one made, I'll get you in contact with my guys and they'll make a copy of mine.

by **methyl mike** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:58 pm

Grazi07 wrote:You could try it, but I doubt it'll make that big a difference. The stock airbox doesn't end where it appears, it does continue down into the fender. The difference between stock and a CAI or extension is that the CAI is one piece, hence less restriction to the flow of air.

I had my shop make me a CAI and it works well. I bought a short ram and used some 3" piping and fittings to extend it through the fender. You'll need to carve away some of the fender inside the engine bay, but it's not going to affect the structural integrity of the frame. I used the Ebay special intake and it ran fine all summer. Fair warning though, when the weather turned colder up here, I ran lean and blew a knock and I think the CAI had something to do with it.

If you want one made, I'll get you in contact with my guys and they'll make a copy of mine.

The stock airbox runs to the fender? I swear it ends right behind the headlight, in fact im positive it does. I have a V6 if that helps.

by **ThatVietGuy** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:05 pm

I think he's talking about the snorkel + the resonator box

by **Grazi07** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:07 pm

sorry, yeah.

by **StockSolara** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:21 pm

methyl mike wrote:Hey I stil have stock airbox, is there any way that I can modify into some kind of custom CAI? Im thinking of getting some tubing from home despot and running it down near the driver side foglight or something. Oh yeah BTW I have both a K&N filter and a TRD filter, anyone know if one is better than the other? Thanks...

If you run some tubing down from the Airbox. . . It will be a little effective but not so dramatic. . . That is actually how most of those "racing air box" are design. . . of course with a bigger opening

by **ThatVietGuy** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:33 pm

You'd prolly get better gains by taking out the bottom half of the box and zip tying the filter to the top half

by **WTF??** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:57 pm

maaaaan i dont understand why anyone would modify the stock airbox... either leave it stock, do an upgraded drop-in filter, or go all the way to a CAI...

why do a half azzz job to how your solara breathes?

by **Midias** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:17 pm

you can do it up like mine HKS maf adapter and 90 degree bend to filter in fender

by **methyl mike** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:21 pm

Midias wrote:you can do it up like mine HKS maf adapter and 90 degree bend to filter in fender

That looks pretty nice actually, does it work well>?

by **Assyrian** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:34 am

A lot of people on the forum that I used to go to would make their own CAI... we called it the HDCAI (Home Depot Cold Air Intake).

The performance results were mixed... depends on how much thought they put into the setup. Some people saw a loss of power... those that executed a good design saw gains that were more than a WAI, but not quite as good as a CAI

by **Midias** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:10 pm

methyl mike wrote:
Midias wrote:you can do it up like mine HKS maf adapter and 90 degree bend to filter in fender

That looks pretty nice actually, does it work well>?

It works very well some people say get risd of the resonator I have tried it felt no difference and I don't like the sound without it. the extention from rj is just a 2.75 inch 90 degree bend with a bracket and the maf adapter is the same as injens would be just made by HKS. the filter is an HKS SMF 200

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