[Cal Cruzer]

quote:Originally posted by CHROMEDCRUISER

Mean Green, do you have a pic of that tube running from the air dam to the filter box? I'd like to see how you routed it.

Go to Home Depot and get a small drain. cut a hole in the bottom of the airbox and secure the drain with scews into the bottom of the airbox. Get the appropriate size heater tubing from the auto parts store. remove the plastic that squeezes down the air intake opening on the front air damn and use a plastic rivet to hold the tubing in place. route the tubing up to the bottom of the airbox and secure it to the bottom of the drain with a worm clamp of appropriate size. If you have a 5 speed like I do, you have to cut the big rubber damper off of the shift mechanism. It is just there to make the shifter feel smoother when you shift. the tubing will interfere otherwise.

I have run this setup for about a year and it works great. I have mounted the outside air temp sensor in the airbox and I can monitor the temp inside the box. When you are not stuck in traffic it really keeps the inside of the airbox cool (ergo, cooler intake air). In stop-and-go traffic there isn't much you can do in any event.

Some people insist that this makes no difference, but you really can feel a performance difference betweena a 60-80 degree intake charge and a 100-120 intake charge.