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Actual cold air box for 95 to 03 J Body.
Requires moving battery to the trunk.
anyone interested?
dennis
Ill commend you on doing something different.
But.....not worth the effort. We already have a pile of cold air intakes and the gains are minimal at best. The term "cold air" is pretty subjective when its 100* outside.
yeah that looks nice and prob works well..but my actual 'cold air intake' goes behind the battery and down into the fender well right infront of the fog light housing (base model, no fogs). but i like what you built
now if you could get that coolant tank to push mist into the intake at the same time..oh wait thats what meth setups do
04 Cav. 2dr. 5spd. My DD. 'Nuff said.
Anymore pictures?
I myself like a WAI intake with a cold air duct running to the filter.
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FU Tuning
Addicted to meth wrote:Anymore pictures?
I myself like a WAI intake with a cold air duct running to the filter.
Agreed, I'm not willing to give up the throttle response of a shorter setup.
"In Oldskool we trust"
color me lost, that box would just protect the filter from some engine bay heat of a WAI...
you could do this, coat the inside and outside of the intake with thermal barrier and wrap it with header tape, as well as run the cool air ducting and have one hell of a setup...
It's nice to be injected but I love being blown.
Addicted to meth wrote:Anymore pictures?
I myself like a WAI intake with a cold air duct running to the filter.
Sure, more pictures coming.
I'm a licensed airplane mechanic and used the same methods to build the CAI. I decided to put the battery in the trunk too. The box should work with a 2.4, 2.3 and 2.2 OHV (what I have).
dennis
-Z Yaaaa- wrote:color me lost, that box would just protect the filter from some engine bay heat of a WAI...
you could do this, coat the inside and outside of the intake with thermal barrier and wrap it with header tape, as well as run the cool air ducting and have one hell of a setup...
Yes, it fits right up against the hood thermal "blanket" to keep all the hot air out. I ran a temp probe into the box and it stayed at or below 100f.
I've also considered the thermal barrier. They make some foam padding stuff for sound proofing/insulating airplanes that has glue on one side and aluminum on the other. I put it in my airplane and it worked great. Pretty $ though.
I'm glad to share the pattern and dimensions if you all want it.
dennis
When I was n/a I did some datalogging with my WAI and a cold air duct routed to the filter (open ended filter). I got 10 degree's less with the cold air duct.
FU Tuning
0-60 runs. Ignore my inability to count and drive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVmOXSCDzg4
It seems to me to be in the 8.5 second range.
I'll be running it against my daughter's 2000 Z24 with about 200k miles hopefully in the next couple days
1995 Cavalier LN2
287k miles
90k miles on truck LN2
Mods:
intake manifold radius smoothed with carbide router
cold air box with 3" K&N cone filter
exhaust is 2" from the manifold to the CAT then 2.5" to flowmaster 40.
transmission has the closer ration gear set from a 93 Geo Storm including the 4.117 final drive ratio.
speedo has been checked with GPS and 61 indicated is actually 60.
stock engine recently "overhauled" with new rings, bearings, and stock gaskets.
cylinder head was machined .020 just to straighten the surface
valves were reground with stems cut to put the valve clearances in the middle of the lifter travel again
stock ignition and fuel injection
more coming including MegaSquirt 3 fuel and ignition programming with wideband.
dennis
