I want to take out my high beams to make it into a hole so that air can reach my short-ram. can this be done? I need my low beam intact because I still want to drive at night. When I looked at the headlights they seem to be a one piece unit. Anyone know the solution?

 

break out the HACKSAW or a bandsaw if you have access to one....

unless I'm wrong...I'm pretty sure you have to cut it in half.....

 

Get an extra headlight somehow (junkyard) and then hack that one to pieces....

 

Man I wish I took pics of the process!! I got an extra light and basically cut a 4" hole in the high beam front and back and shoved a PVC pipe through it, mated it too the stock airbox and sealed it up. I will post the pics I have tomorrow.

 

do the high beam lamps allow for left-right adjustments independent of the low beam lamps? if so, you could remove one of the high beam lamps for the air intake and adjust the other one so it roughly points directly in front of the car rather than on one side. even if this isn't possible, i imagine one high beam lamp is sufficient for night driving.

 

Yes, they do adjust seperately, and one is fine for me. Its possible to point more towards the side too. If there are problems....bolt on some driving lights to compensate!

 

sweet! now all we need are some dyno charts.
from what i understand, a short ram air type setup like this would help primarily in lower rpm's and the effects will peter off in higher rev's.

 

due to the cold air intake effect though top end shouldn't suffer as much.

 

Here was my setup at the Dyno. I need to scan the plots.
Stock B18C
Intake from headlight.
comptech foam drop in filter
JDM header
Testpipe
No exhaust after the testpipe.
Timing at 18 deg.

176 WHP.

 

did you happen to get a plot when the car was stock?
i wouldn't think there would be any fear of water ingestion if the intake had a slight upward angle from the headlight back.
i'm no expert, but do you think you'd show more power if you kept the b-pipe attached and only disconnected the muffler? i seem to remember that all the exhaust experts here say to keep the b-pipe. regardless, that is about 16whp gained, not bad!

 

No stock runs!

I did 3 runs. testpipe, B- pipe:

Muffler removed.... 0.3WHP gain
B-Pipe removed..... 4.0 Whp gained (the 176 WHP run)

My car gained all the way across without the B pipe! I gotta get that plot scanned!

 

Oh yea.... you MUST NOT run this in the rain!! The air filter is exposed to direct air. (I can see a portion of the filter when I look in the tube)

It DOES slope down towards the air box. I have to stuff towels in there when I wash it!!

 

now anyone selling their headlight unit?????

 

Good Luck! I got mine for $100 and was lucky. Around here $275 at junkyard, $375 dealer!!

 

what do you do when it rains? i would think that adding a slight upward kink (slip the intake tube into a bracket attached to the underside of the hood) would prevent any water ingestion. don't the real time racing itr's have the headlight intake and run in the rain? how do they do it?

 

dirve a beater car!!

 

I switch to the stock headlight in the rain. Yes Realtime does run in the rain, I dont know how much they are worried about their motors....with all those mechanics around!!

The person I got the idea from runs with the intake that way all the time, but he added a "diffuser" in front of the air filter to keep the rain from hitting it directly.

Anyway, here is what I have (Thanks Bob#497 for the pics)

 

hey chris....can you compare the performance to other cai's? better performance with the setup you have? i figure you can really feel the pull traveling at freeway speeds

 

I really cant compare...I didnt even notice the gains of the header!!

But I ran my car at about 70 deg outside in the 1/4 (with a G-Tech Pro) and ran an average 14.5 @100 At 1 AM on the same street and about 40 deg outside I only got to run 1 run, it was a 14.3@103.

I definately pulls good on the FWY,and at night in the cold!!!

 

hey chris, do u have any type of mesh or grill in between the filter and the inlet. I'm afraid some punks might stick stuff in there or just poke around and damage the filter. oh and another thing, not sure if you experienced other intakes, but do you prefer your's over say an AEM.

 

NICE ******* INSTALL

heh, your filter will get dirty as hell now tho... bugs get crushed into the mesh like none other.

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You should have seen the bugs on the filter when he went to clean it

 

Well, a lot of bugs are attracted to the color yellow. So maybe if this intake was black or even silver it'd attract a lot less bugs.

 

What did you do with the radiator overflow reservor?
EVIL

 

my questions exactly. oh and do they make subwoofer ports big enough for the inlet. I prefer them because they are already flared like the skunk2 one. I hear this shape increases flow. Just look at mugen and theres is flared as well i think?