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Ebay has a few for sale, not sure but there was a guy selling them here on SAU

Ebay Clear CAI kit:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Custom-Clear-Cold-A...1QQcmdZViewItem

Ebay Black CAI kit:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Custom-Black-Cold-A...1QQcmdZViewItem

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those ones on ebay rnt all that gud...

my mate said he would make me one custom fabricating a pipe to drop all the way down jus under the blinker in the gap of the grill to house the pod there he said to get it all make up and wat not will cost bout 300bux?? wat u's think

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If you are running a turbo motor, there is no point to having CAI as the air gets heated up then it passes through the turbo anyways.

Thats where the intercooler comes into effect.... cooling that air back down again after it leaves the turbo and before it enters the manifold.

Might be a bit obvious, but hey... that might help clear it up for someone :ermm:

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aaaaaand then I notice which section of the forum this is in... naturally aspirated performance hey??? *slaps forehead*

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If you are running a turbo motor, there is no point to having CAI as the air gets heated up then it passes through the turbo anyways.

Thats where the intercooler comes into effect.... cooling that air back down again after it leaves the turbo and before it enters the manifold.

Might be a bit obvious, but hey... that might help clear it up for someone :(

*edit*

aaaaaand then I notice which section of the forum this is in... naturally aspirated performance hey??? *slaps forehead*

cold air compresses better, plus better off boost

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for NA cars. just cut out 1 of the intercooler pipe holes.. get some house ducting and run a duct to your front bumper. if you dont want to do any cutting. you can do a few little tricks with r33s.. i had 2 2.5" pvc pipes ducting up behind my headlight...

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for NA cars. just cut out 1 of the intercooler pipe holes.. get some house ducting and run a duct to your front bumper. if you dont want to do any cutting. you can do a few little tricks with r33s.. i had 2 2.5" pvc pipes ducting up behind my headlight...

i was thinking that but acually having the pod sitting low in the front bar for every1 to see

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Works great for heat soak on motors. You'll find you can sit in traffic and it won't feel heat soaked so much!

I had a polished pipe on my 32 gtst and on boost it didn't make much difference, i think i gained 5hp peak power (mind you i was runnin 20psi on a bigger turbo so less on standard turbo and even less on n/a motor) but as i said down low and on those hot days sitting in traffic the motor seemed alot happier. I had it positioned where the stock cooler was so it had that air-flow running through it also.

Plus is looks very nice if you care about the appearance under your bonnet.

They do say you have to be careful with puddles etc but i never had a problem...

I'm currently getting another one made up on my 34 gtt as we speak!

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does any1 know of any cold air intake setups for sale or any1 be able to make one or help me make one?????

here is some templates and how to do for an r33 if you want to make a cai yourself, hope this helps

cai_zip.zip

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Works great for heat soak on motors. You'll find you can sit in traffic and it won't feel heat soaked so much!

I had a polished pipe on my 32 gtst and on boost it didn't make much difference, i think i gained 5hp peak power (mind you i was runnin 20psi on a bigger turbo so less on standard turbo and even less on n/a motor) but as i said down low and on those hot days sitting in traffic the motor seemed alot happier. I had it positioned where the stock cooler was so it had that air-flow running through it also.

Plus is looks very nice if you care about the appearance under your bonnet.

They do say you have to be careful with puddles etc but i never had a problem...

I'm currently getting another one made up on my 34 gtt as we speak!

Hey Jazza where did you get this kit? my motor hates it idling around in the heat starts to chugalug

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i was thinking that but acually having the pod sitting low in the front bar for every1 to see

there is a couple of bad things about that. 1 is you will get water in your airfilter. the other fact is the longer piping means less responice. and youd have to clean it every 1000ks or less

also it means sombody could steal your airfilter and in my own personal opinion it doesnt look good to have a pod filter visable

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there is a couple of bad things about that. 1 is you will get water in your airfilter. the other fact is the longer piping means less responice. and youd have to clean it every 1000ks or less

also it means sombody could steal your airfilter and in my own personal opinion it doesnt look good to have a pod filter visable

i still dont know wat im gonna do kepe changing my mind i may get a cold air box then run a duct from the front bar up through the intercooler hole or wat ever i cut out. ill have to get sum people to look at it to make sure nothing will be defected or anything like that, if so its favours from freinds time

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I noticed no less responce, end of the day theres still air in the piping and in an n/a u never have to build up positive pressure either!

My air-filter was as good as the day i bought it, id say if it did get wet the water would clean the thing bahahahah

Also how funny would it be someone tryin to stick thier hands in some small vent in ur front bar un-doing tiny screws to get at your pod filter. If they managed to get to the screws they deserve the bloody thing lol! I think they'd prefer to go to supercheap and get one for $20 :D

I had to have it custom made as there isn't a kit for the car bud. Personally i thought it was great and as i said there's one going on my r34 as we speak!

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