Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Duratec Performance REAL cold air intake idea's.....

Seems like in our cars the best option is a cold air box isolated from the engine heat. My idea is to modify my stock air box to allow a 3" inlet and run 1 3" hose to a "t" then run 2 3" hose to the front grill. the reason for the tee is so that when the 2 hoses merge into 1 the pressure and velocity is increased pumping copious amounts of air into the stock airbox (restrictor plate removed of course) through a K&N drop in into the maf then instead of a rubber boot going to the TB I'm making a custom pipe that will allow for IAC, and to EGR hoses to plug into. I simple screen will suffice for keeping large objects out of the air box and I'm thinking that you would have to be on a likea 8 hour drive for the pressure to work water up to the filter, and even then a well oiled K&N will repel what little mist is introduced. The only kicker is that I have no clue if the drop in K&N is large enough its about 88in^2 for area and I'm wondering if it would be benefical to creat a whole new box using a larger cone type filter. I'll figure that out later once I get this to work. Good luck!