Cold air intake, can you have too much of a good thing?

Chase Race · Post by **Chase Race** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:18 pm

stimpy wrote:I left the $ part out because I'm not trippin. You're going to Vegas for SEMA? So am I, bitch! I'll PM you my cel # and we'll have to hook up down there.

I'm walking out the door now and won't likely have internet access. Just call me at the number in my sig. Leave a voice mail if you don't get me.

jstillwell · Post by **jstillwell** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:05 pm

I did some fine tuning to my intake when I had it out making a copy for dgzfiero, and I discovered that the pipe that the filter element clamped onto was actually sticking about halfway down the filter. I had my guy cut it, and with the combination of that and my j-scoop I'm actually losing traction at full throttle up to 80 mph!

My j-scoop is a 90 degree 4" pvc elbow with a solid 4" rubber hose going up to meet at the filter right below the inlet, in the shape of a j, imagine the little dot on the j is the intake. The hose is trimmed to fit tight to the filter so it's like pointing a leaf blower right into the intake at 100mph. My ass dyno is setting off all kinds of lights, but unless I take a leaf blower to my next dyno session, who knows. But it was a $4 elbow with a free piece of hose shot with some spraypaint, and it's invisible from outside the car.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:05 pm

You REALLY need a 3.4 pulley!

Series8217 · Post by **Series8217** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:30 pm

I'd have to wear a jacket out here to shield myself from the breeze if Mr Stillwell had a 3.4 pulley on that thing.

jstillwell · Post by **jstillwell** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:13 pm

I have a 3.4 pulley. It's sitting on a shelf right next to me. I need to do some ignition upgrades first. Nothing major. But why chase more horsepower if I can't use what I've got? What I really need is some coilovers and some fat tires.

On the other hand, Now I'm doubting myself if what I thought yesterday was chattering tire was actually a missing coil. Today I took it for a drive and it was missing noticeably and I zapped myself on the #3 coil checking the wires. Since I need colder plugs for the 3.4 anyway, and I'm sure it's due for new plugs, I'm going to just replace the whole damn thing, coil packs and wires too.

dgzfiero · Post by **dgzfiero** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:13 pm

I had a slight miss on mine. I cleaned it a few times but the miss would come back about a week later. It went away when I changed the coil packs and the plug wires. The CP in the middle had a tower that was corroded up. The MSD coil packs haven't given me any trouble yet.

Series8217 · Post by **Series8217** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:40 pm

I always just buy a bag full of GM coils when PickNPull has the 1/2 off sale. All the GM DIS coils are the same. Just bring a multimeter to the yard to test them.

jstillwell · Post by **jstillwell** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:53 pm

Now where do people get the idea that Fiero owners are cheap?

Series8217 · Post by **Series8217** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:24 am

jstillwell wrote:Now where do people get the idea that Fiero owners are cheap?

Yeah, those cheap Fiero owners with their $2000 engine rebuilds when they could just buy a crate motor for $1000 or heck, Pick-n-Pull has half a dozen of 'em and they're $100 each.
I don't trust the aftermarket stuff. I've had too many failures of $100 non-GM parts. They're generally all crap. The GM coils will easily outlast most of my motor. Spending money wisely is not being cheap.

jstillwell · Post by **jstillwell** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:23 am

Easy Steven. Just busting on you. You're still my cracka.

dgzfiero · Post by **dgzfiero** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:58 pm

Aha I figured it out. It's going to be put on tomorrow morning.

dgzfiero · Post by **dgzfiero** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:15 pm

Here is the setup I recieved from Jeffery.

first the old setup removed from the car.

Here is the intake side.

The filter end of the setup. It's nice and loud.

jstillwell · Post by **jstillwell** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:37 pm

Wow Doug, you trimmed off a LOT of that rubber hose, didn't you? Mine used a foot of it (collapsed) Looks like you used a couple of inches at most. I have some pictures of it before I packed it, I'll get those up.

dgzfiero · Post by **dgzfiero** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:50 pm

Heck I didn't even have to trim any of the filter side off either. I just trimmed the rubber hose off, bent the holding bracket and made some extra clearence for the slave cylinder with a hammer and that was it.

Forgot I had to get the sensor bung moved. The computer is in the way on my setup.

crzyone · Post by **crzyone** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:17 pm

Hey Jeff, whats that K&N from? Or is it just a custom filter? I need a filter for the N* and would like one that fits in the quarter like that one. Should flow plenty for my motor.

Thanks

dgzfiero · Post by **dgzfiero** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:37 pm

The filter is a K&N E-1796. Its 10 inches long 6 inches wide with a 3.5 inch opening.

crzyone · Post by **crzyone** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:25 am

Thanks, exactly what I needed. :thumbleft:

jstillwell · Post by **jstillwell** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:19 pm

Wanna hear it suck?

http://www.shaun.saturnet.net/pics/Vide ... urnout.3gp