so the dilema is this, my turbo is too cramped under boost tubes and is too close to the frame to be able to house a proper sized air filter.

the solution a was to put a screen on the turbo, i did this for a week or two and it was time for a change.

the second solution and the more permanent solution is the following: i bought 3 bends of 2.5" rad hose from an un named part department locally in hick town, each bend was 20$ so the three bends came out to 60$, then i needed metal joiners, thoes ran me probabaly 15$ for the three of them, and clamps, that ran me 2$ as the air filter came with one and the turbo already had one, and lastly the filter, that ran me a cold 30$

so my total for this project is a whopping 127$

some of you might think that is a lot of money for just a little air filter rig.
but your wrong, the custom sized k&n that i would have needed to replace mine and have no intake piping, just bolt it to the turbo itself was over 130$.

and to make an air intake rig like the one i did with 3 sharp 90 degree bends using metal and welding with mandrel bends or chops welded together would have easily ran in the 400$ range, plus cleaning and painting and all that crap, plus the cost of the air filter and connectors and clamps.

so all in all i got a great deal. and the car sounds way different with an intake setup like this.

ive been used to a bov all these years, ive owned 3 different types of bov's from a first gen hks, to a second gen hks to the hks ssqv and now i run a locked shut ssqv or no bov. and i get nothing but compressor surge, your regular chatter, but with an intake tubing setup i get a higher pitched owl sound like that of some of the high hp supras out there and skylines that run tightened or locked shut bovs. so im pleased with the sound, the riceboy in me is satisfied with it completely.


now onto the pictures of the install....






first set of pics is the rubber hoses, connectors reducers, and filter i used for the build, all layed out. the final rubber hose that goes to the filter was later cut down to a shorter length fyi.
















second set is how the filter sits in the corner of the bumper, note that i needed to remove the windshield washer fluid tank to install the air intake. but i made the decision to remove it since my car isn't really a daily driver, it spends most of the time in the garage or being cleaned on the driveway, so i dont have to worry about needing fluid.

and i relocated my overflow tank for the rad to where the charcol canister is set to be stock, the bracket is exactly the same as the origional one and the tank fits perfectly, like it was meant to be there.

anyway, what do you think?

 

good job, Im plannin on doin same thing to my teg, I heard somewhere that for every 10 degrees lower temp into the turbo its like 5 more hp, (or somthing like that) I dont rember exactly but it was alot.

 

I like that you are doing a cold-air setup (I did the same ofcourse), however I'm a bit worried that those rubber hoses could partially collapse once they get warm and are subjected to intake vacuum at wot..I hope they don't

 

im very sure they wont collapse, my turbo is very small and weak and all the straight pieces of this system are lined with metal supports as you can see in the pictures. the only open place is the bends and they are pretty sturdy, and they are lined with braiding so that they can't rip.

 

the only thing that really worries me is the filter brand.
I personally almost destroyed my turbo because the filter fell apart and almost got sucked into the blades of the compressor (luckily it hit the top of the compressor wheel and not the blades)