Designed and built my own custom air intake

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Mark Sheriff
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Did this project for my 1999.5 Nissan Pathfinder

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^^stock intake tubing and aftermarket cone filter (bought from eBay and it is washable), intake resonator and filter box are all removed.

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^^got a 6" aluminum pipe, one 2.75"-3" (throttle body to 3" intake aluminum pipe), one 3"-3" coupler (for the M.A.F part) and two 1/2" barbs

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^^ drilled holes into the aluminum pipe and then JB welded the barbs in place

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^^ painted the aluminum tube black

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^^ what it looks like after painting

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^^ got some red vinyl tubing from eBay for the vacuum lines

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^^ installed into my pathy and works great!


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NICE!

I love these projects - Simple, effective, and reversible. Well-done sir!

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This is Awesome!!!
let me know how the JB Weld holds up. i've had the worst luck with that stuff.

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Mark Sheriff
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Thanks guys, the Jb weld is holding pretty strong for now

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ak23
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hi love your built. Can you provide the vendor to buy the parts from? any part # would help too

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Mark Sheriff
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the intake pipe i got from here:
http://intakehoses.com/
but its better to get a good quality plastic intake tube because the metal gets really hot and you want cold air in your intake not warm/hot,
the 1/2" barbs are from lowes or home depot

changed the colors to all black:
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