DIY $8 Short Ram to Cold Air Intake Conversion. It's Easy, Pics Included.

[rsmithdrift]

So I have a Ebay Short Ram intake on my car. I like it, it sounds nice, but draws hot air, and here in FLA it's getting hot and I feel it in my hp, everytime the car warms up I loose power and it gets boggie. Anyways I decided I wanted to draw cold air from outside instead. So I first took off the fiberglass thing on the bottomside of the hood and the weatherstripping from the front and bottom of the hood to let heat out from under the back of the hood and cool air in under the front of the hood. Helped a little keeping my temps down a shade. But I wanted cold air. I had no mony so First I made my "cold air box" out of aluminum foil. That worked... for like an hour of driving... then it slowly started tearing... I checked again after another drive and it collapsed against the air filter. I was shocked that it could create such a strong vacumn to mold aluminum foil to the shape of the cone filter. Well I thought I'd have to get a sheet of aluminum and bend/cut it to shape. But then I found my old sun visor in the back of the car. Man, why didn't I think of that sooner... So I cut the sun visor to the right shape with a pair of sicsors (sp?) and took my aluminum tape and it works perfect!! It's like foam reinforced aluminum foil. Bends to shape, insulates out the heat and holds together. I had to put tape around the top edge of the visor to keep it from falling apart, but other than that I feel a very strong increase in power and response. It's very surprising right after I open the hood how hot it is in the engine bay and how cool it is in the air box.

Here's pics.

And you can see the way it's taped with aluminum tape.

If you need a step by step directions. Here you go:1. Buy and install Ebay Short Ram intake. Costs like $30 shipped.2. Remove front and rear weather stripping from hood and that underhood insulation.3. Go buy a Sun Visor for your front windshield from autozone for like $8.4. Cut it in half and then put it in and trace where you need to cut it. Also cut a hole for the intake pipe.5. You can either bolt the cover to the MAF adapter or just use the rubber tube to hold it like I did. Tape it down where needed.6. Close hood and insure a tight fit between hood and silver visor material. It's ok for the visor to be slightly taller than the hood so it's a tight fit like I did.7. Go drive and feel the hp.

I feel this is alot easier than putting the filter in the front bumper like other have for cold air. Works just as good too.

[240DRFT]

damn....thats ghetto as ****

get some thin sheet metal and work it and bend it to fit the filter. still cheap and it'll look way better

[R6_240sx]

LMAO damn bro that's ghetto as hell.

[metalex_240sx]

Dude you missing something

TUUUUURBOOOOOOO

[neverlift]

rsmithdrift where is my 350z body where in fla?

[glitched]

um, fire hazzard?

[RB20DETodd]

damn those plug wires are tight.

[srpowered240sx]

um, fire hazzard?

thats kinda what i was thinking. and i hope you didnt drive around with the shop rag stuffed under there too, its flamable too. for $8, you could have bought a piece of bent tubing from exhaust shop or parts house, and made a cai extension. id spend the money you saved on a fire extinguisher.

[Felipe]

damn....thats ghetto as ****

but hey it works...lol

+1 for the making...

-1 for the fire hazzard

[RockStar240]

its aluminum foil wraping foam its probably not flammable and if it is somebody better call dynomat quick and tell them they are killing people because that is about the same stuff people use as hood insulators.

[srpowered240sx]

dynamats products are made for going under the hood (some of them). $4 sun visors are not made the same way.

[Ninetyfive240sxSE]

I would stick with the factory air box! I guess you need some uv light protection under the hood as well I'll give you credit for originality

[rsmithdrift]

rsmithdrift where is my 350z body where in fla?

350z body...Wha???

Sarasota Fla. My new/old home. lol.

[srpowered240sx]

My new/old home.

but......i.......uhhh......*scratches head*.....if its new, then it cant be old....and if its old, it damn sure aint new. you confuse me.

[rsmithdrift]

but......i.......uhhh......*scratches head*.....if its new, then it cant be old....and if its old, it damn sure aint new. you confuse me.

Well, I grew up here, so it's my old home. But I moved away to Tenn. for several years but now I moved back, so it's also my new home.... get it??

[tonynalli]

Ghetto as hell, I wouldnt want to pop my hood around anyone other then freinds.

[Kraelic]

new/old home, he bought a home, its old(er) has had an owner or two but its new to him... like a brand new used car

[glitched]

Ghetto as hell, I wouldnt want to pop my hood around anyone other then freinds.

If your going that far for function over form... why not wrap the intake tube with exhaust manifold heat wrap to keep the intake tube cooler...

[adrianfromthecastle]

dam... I got my hood popped by the popos last saturday... If the cop saw that, he'd be laughing his asss off

[srpowered240sx]

dam... I got my hood popped by the popos last saturday... If the cop saw that, he'd be laughing his asss off

how'd that go?? any issues you have to deal with now??

[adrianfromthecastle]

how'd that go?? any issues you have to deal with now??

doood... he stared at my engine for like 10 minutes... scratched his head and then was like..."umm... do you have a catalyc converter?"

"yes sir"

"well, I'm writing you up for speeding, and not having a front license plate"

totally bs.... I told him I was driving with the flow of traffic the cop even said he saw others driving the same speed as me, but then he was like... "well, do you think that was safe?"



I didn't get written up for my engine tho...

[srpowered240sx]

i like to keep the plate in my car with an extra roll of duct tape. the standard excuse is "the front lic plate bracket broke, i can duct tape it on if absolutely necessary". only been ticketed for it once, and he had a vendetta against me.

when he asked if you thought it was safe, shoulda said, "yes, and slowing down to keep it under the limit sign would have not been, the flow of traffic was overwhelming, i would have been a nuisance trying to slow down".

[Felipe]

lucky as

[glitched]

i like to keep the plate in my car with an extra roll of duct tape. the standard excuse is "the front lic plate bracket broke, i can duct tape it on if absolutely necessary". only been ticketed for it once, and he had a vendetta against me.

when he asked if you thought it was safe, shoulda said, "yes, and slowing down to keep it under the limit sign would have not been, the flow of traffic was overwhelming, i would have been a nuisance trying to slow down".

I used the excuse (well it WAS the actual reason why i didnt have it on) that the holes in the license plate dont line up with the holes in my bumper. I ended up drilling holes in the plate after 2 years.

so there is actually a bracket thats supposed to go there that you can put your plate in?

[adrianfromthecastle]

when he asked if you thought it was safe, shoulda said, "yes, and slowing down to keep it under the limit sign would have not been, the flow of traffic was overwhelming, i would have been a nuisance trying to slow down".

trust I did...

but by the time I was telling him, he was already telling me to sign the ticket...

fvcking pigs

[Felipe]

how fast?

[adrianfromthecastle]

how fast?

80 on 605 south

[Felipe]

80 on 605 south

ha! what a nerd... dont you know the speed limit is 65...

lol where you in the back of the pack? usualy the last one gets burned.

[srpowered240sx]

so there is actually a bracket thats supposed to go there that you can put your plate in?

yep, its a black plastic piece that has a curve on the back to flush up with your bumper, then holes to mount the plate on.

trust I did...

but by the time I was telling him, he was already telling me to sign the ticket...

fvcking pigs

bummer dude. ive been driving like a nun lately trying not to get any unwanted attention. i want a new job selling cars, and my driving record is the only thing holding me back.

[adrianfromthecastle]

lol where you in the back of the pack? usualy the last one gets burned.

ya... actually I was =/

I'm fighting it tho...

after I got the ticket, I started driving and I picked up speed to 75pmh... everyone was swerving around and passing me up and giving me dirty looks like I'm purposely slowing down to piss them off!

seriously, on sunday mornings, speed of traffic is 80-85mph.

I'm recording it next sunday to show the judge... hopefully that will work