Alright guys, 91 Celica GT - I have been given pass by a sponcoring company to have any cold air intake i want... what do you...

Martin and i went on a road trip and i think i am going to cancel my plans for world domination with the cold air intake. maybe exhaust instead.

The general insite is that an intake wont make an overall huge difference right now, what do you guys think???

if i turbo the car later on the cold air will be usless.... what else could i be doing with this money

buying my header

Buying a header would make your car a lot nicer, my boyfriend just put one on his 93 celica and put custom exhaust on it, its so nice his car creams mine now, I don't even try to race him now cause I know I'll lose lol. makes it sound real nice, give it a lot more power, If i was you I would buy MartinGouda's header, you won't be sorry.

then i could have the exhaust people pute a custom exhaust with that header... that would work well :)

how much for the header, i forget martin

custom exhaust cost about $500 for the best piping, catalytic converters, and muffler. but if you got your own muffler you want to put on it'll be cheaper. You should do it. I'm getting ready to go have mine done.

during the winter time i will see how it all pans out, maybe i wil jack my car up in the air and do the exhaust myself...

i herd of someone doing it with pvc piping, any warnings on benifits or downsides to this aproach?

Umm i wouldn't do pvc piping, and don't do any piping more then 2.5". you might be able to buy the piping from a exhaust n muffler shop and do it yourself that will save on labor so the cost would go down to about $300. but you need to know how to weld.

the only difficulty is bending the pipe... i cant do that myself, i have a supplier for all the piping, and i can weld. just the pipe bending that will be a challenge

yeah, if you can bend it yourself go for it but if you can't just get a custom shop to do it I think its worth the money. or you can just do straight pipes.

Hate to dig up a dead topic, but is that still for sale?

I don't want to blow $250 on not much of a choice of ram air, and guarantee that it would fit with a minimum of work would be great.

Thanks

hurrs my intake...

$40 CAI intake bought off ebay, and modified
edit* the hood does close perfectly, but I will be cutting part of the stock intake pipe so it fits nicer

And here's a old pictures of my short-ram intake..good filter, but it most sucked in hot air, needed heat shield pretty badly...3" piping, made the car sound fairly nice though

that looks pretty col actually, how long did it take to install and did you notice any gains... i was looking at the air ram type thing they have in there already and i donno if i wanna fuck with it, it seams pretty efficient. may wait till boost.

That's not CAI. Its a longer SRI. CAI will have filter behind bumper or fender and outside engine bay.

toyotacelicaonline.com -- go into the mods section, there are two guides on DIY CAIs, and neither required relocating the battery. You can, and it will allow you to run the CAI farther away from the manifold, which keeps the temperature down, but battery relocation is not a requirement.

Further, there's a thread up now on 6gc.net with pics of an aluminum intake with the filter positioned in the fenderwell, the pipe running through an enlarged resonator hole. He's reported issues with the filter causing the splashguards to push against the tire, but I expect that could be resolved with a longer, slimmer filter pointing down into the corner of the fender.

Here's another one of my intakes, just took the stock intake hose, n added a K&N..

did you notice any sort of gains from that??

using the stock piping I noticed more results over the 2 piece intake, less ways the air can fck up I guess?

maybe that air bowel makes a difference.....

was their noticable gains with just the filter change from the stock to K+N...

just wondering because there is already sorta an air ram in that fender... i dont wanna make it less efficient just for a nice sound