I put a peice of rubber hose where the intake meets the AC lines but I just discovered that it has made a little dent in my intake. I'm afraid if this continues there will be a big hole there. What are all your solutions to this problem? Would bending the AC lines affect my AC system? (not that I ever use it much. )

 

You can lightly bend the lines and not hurt the AC system.

 

Hand bend them?

 

yep!
Or you can reverse the bracket that holds them.

 

or just be ghetto and put a little piece of rubber or even folded over paper between the intake and a/c lines and tape it in place...the paper/rubber will take the rubbing instead of ur intake..



[Modified by Toda Party, 5:37 AM 11/14/2001]

 

I used some water pipe insulation you can buy at Home Depot. It's already curved, and it cushions nicely. I didn't use very much of it, and I didn't wrap it all the way around the intake tube. It did the job nicely. I switched to the Comptech Icebox, and I have no problems with it rubbing anywhere. It's a much better fit than the AEM was.

 

how about using zip ties you guys?

sheesh!

 

There is a much better fix. On the other side of the tube, where the mounting point is, just drill out the slot a little bit more, and that will allow the whole intake to slide to the left (away from the A/C lines). Takes about 2 minutes

 

All:

What is this, rubber hoses, drilling, cutting, zip ties? Are you guys into some weird kinky ****?

Just kidding.

A better solution is to utilize one of the original rubber bolt/screws that was utilized with the original intake and replace the AEM rubber-glue-bolt used by the AC lines (it is too flexible).

I'd take a picture, but my camera is out on loan.

The original intake bolt/rubber combo looks like

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Male Bolt with attached female bolt covered by black rubber. So what you do is bolt the left side of the pic down into the car, place the AEM bracket on the top of the female/rubber side and then put a male bolt in. I GUARANTEE this will sove your problem.

Ha! Ingenuity is all it takes....

- Brian

 

Call me old fashioned or mickeymoused, but I just shoved a chunk of duct tape down where it was rubbing and it worked like a charm for a year

 

I used a peice of rubber but it still rubbed. Had the intake on a few months already but recently checked to see the condition of the area and it was rubbinb a little bit. I'll try the male/female thing.