Recommand Cold Air Intake

mishuko

a little disclosure to my above post

1) i've never taken a bumper off my car before
2) i've never taken an intake off in my life
3) i've never really played inside an engine bay before
4) i've never used a dremel bit in my life (i have used a drill =O)
5) i've never took off rivets before (okay small lie the ones in the hatch)

i have 0 mechanical skills and never took shop class in my life and yet I could do it. I had a friend help out with unbolting some parts while i unbolted on another to help speed things up. you an do it yourself for sure with a wrench kit, elbow grease and a bit of patience.

Pelican170

Get the MAF tubes with drop in filters. Very similar gains when adding an exhaust compared to the long tubes, much less money and easier to install.

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mishuko

i already have the gen 3's and been using them for about 2 weeks now... it was just to emphasize how easy it really is to do these intakes. i like my shiny tubes and the space that opened up after took out the stock boxes. plus maf tubes + drop in's won't give the same sound as the gen 3's (probably the takeda's but i may be talking out the arse) that's just my personal taste though... each to their own

Zbrah

Agreed. It's really easy to do if you follow the guide already provided on here. I dont understand why people are so afraid of removing the bumper and enlarging the holes for the tubes. The plastic area where you have to make the space is somewhat of soft plastic. I didn't have a dremel so I resorted to my dinner knife, made two deep cuts one top and one bottom, eat cut about 1" in a seesawing motion, I just reached in barehand and pulled outward toward me and the plastic snapped off creating a bigger hole for the tube to fit thru, repeat the otherside. You can file off the jagged edge to make it look nicer but I didn't since no one but me knows it's there. I also wrapped the AC line with some rubber pieces found around the garage to keep from rubbing.

Edit: of course I don't recommend you guys use my ghetto tectnique, just showing ppl that it's not that bad and it's easy to do.

aszyd

If you can hear your intake, you're doing it wrong.

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mishuko

it's more of a subtle change which i'm crediting to the resonation of metal opposed to the silicone/plastic tubing of the stocks tubes

then again i could be spouting from my arse again... i'm sure others who have the gen 3 (no other bolt ons) can attest the change.

SwissCheese

Hopefully this post gives some confidence to those on the fence about installing it themselves.

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