Im coming down to the nooks and cranies of finishing my 1.9L OEM build... and one of those nooks is an intake.

i wanna run a BPi Velocity Stack thru a 3inch pipe to a S2 68mm TB... but where the hell is everyone getting their 3inch pipes without breakin the bank?!
the only thing i know is 3inch made by AEM is the ITR CAI... (they dont make a SRI for ITR's)...

does anyone know if the AEM SRI for the 99-00 SI is a 3inch intake...?! cuz if so... its only like $130.. i can deal with that.

Part number is: 22-417

i just cant justify spending damn near $300 for a cold air... cutting it, then another $100 for the VS and K&N filter...

 

it's called Home Depot...head on over there and look for some cheap aluminum piping and see if you can find a local shop to weld some pieces together. slap on a K&N filter and some clamps...good to go...should be less than $100 all together

 

ok... maybe i didnt phrase it right..

this is a very clean car thats gonna be seen in shows as well as performing on the track.

home depot pipe with some boogered up welds isnt goin to
1) look appealing
or even
2) perform well.

is it a bad idea?? not at all.. i've done it plenty of times. you'd be surprised what some muffler pipe, a mig welder, and some wrinkle black paint can do when putting together a HomeMadeTurbo setup..

but if i was doing that, i wouldnt have asked this question.

i want a flawless, preferably polished, 3inch, name brand, with all the cute little brackets that fasten it to the bay, short ram intake.

i see them on clean NA setups all the time.... where are you ppl getting them and what car are you ordering them for??

 

try ebay. its just piping...

 

http://motors.shop.ebay.com/it...sfc=0

 

i searched ebay up and down... no one makes a short ram thats 3inchs in diameter. except for one gay brand thats go too many bends in it...

and like i said, AEM only makes a CAI for the ITR thats a 3inch.. and its damn near $300

 

well, either get crafty and fab up your own from tubular Al stock (& polish, etc.) or cough up the $- but don't bitch that no one's interested in finding/making/selling you one for your asking price as you want it.

 

ebay.

 

Ebay! I plan on doing the same when I start piecing together my build. You should be able to get everything and a filter for somewhere around $110. Dont let the extra $10 discourage you.

 

samco arm, more than 100, but not a lot more

 

autozone intake... it's 3" it was like $20-30.. i forgot.
I'm running that with the velocity stack.

 

I'm using a Blue Samco arm w/Bpi/K&N, along with Blue Samco rad hoses on my LSVtec.

Samco arm is 3" all the way except the tip which is 3.5"

 

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and like i said, AEM only makes a CAI for the ITR thats a 3inch.. and its damn near $300</TD></TR></TABLE>

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors....m245

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...l1116

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I run eBay ones they are 3" for the single cams, Message them sometimes they can tell you the size.

Vibrant makes some 3" ones for like 70ish

 

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holy ****. good work

all the other ls/rs ones stated 2.5"... this is awesome if its really 3", and only for $30 bucks shipped, cant go wrong.

problem solved

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be wary, i bought a '3 inch" intake and it was 2.5 when it arrived in the mail. When i returned it the company told me they never received it and i was out 40$

 

I was actually looking at that one too, the black one, because I want a cheap 3" alternative intake to run with a VS, but I read somewhere that some people bought "3 inch intakes" off ebay and they were 2.5 inches. If you end up getting that one could you measure it just to make sure and let us know? maybe snap some pichas? This way we can confirm that there is a seller on ebay who is selling legit 3" short rams.

 

I bought a 3” intake off of eBay and I got a 3” intake

 

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Pay with credit card and file a claim and/or get shipping insurance

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by HatchEh2 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Im coming down to the nooks and cranies of finishing my 1.9L OEM build... and one of those nooks is an intake.

i wanna run a BPi Velocity Stack thru a 3inch pipe to a S2 68mm TB... but where the hell is everyone getting their 3inch pipes without breakin the bank?!
the only thing i know is 3inch made by AEM is the ITR CAI... (they dont make a SRI for ITR's)...

does anyone know if the AEM SRI for the 99-00 SI is a 3inch intake...?! cuz if so... its only like $130.. i can deal with that.

Part number is: 22-417

i just cant justify spending damn near $300 for a cold air... cutting it, then another $100 for the VS and K&N filter... </TD></TR></TABLE>



Ebay piping, Blox v stack.

 

Buy the bend and a ft of straight and make your own with a coupler (if you can't weld) for under 50$.

http://www.racepartsolution.com

 

Autozone and Kregan has those cheap 3'inch pipings for about 35 bucks. Thats what im using with a bpi stack and a blox filter

 

ill take pics and let you guys know who i buy from and if i really get a 3" pipe or not

 

Serdar, did you paint that black or did it come like that? that looks pretty sick w/ the black v stack