Cheap, Easy, Mods

[Erbe]

r there any real cheap and easy mods or bolt ons out there for a gen3.....and what r they....im talkin like real cheap...cus i am

[Nick]

nope

the closest thing is a home made cold air intake

[Erbe]

yeh....i know bout the DIY CAI...but im worryed bout my engine gettin water sucked into it.....plus i have a 92....and i think the little rubber type thing where the stock box connects to is too small for a 2" somethin pipe to go through

[EKam]

Originally posted by Oldman
the closest thing is a home made cold air intake

What he said.


And you can make a CAI that can prevent water from going in, and even if it's a short cold air pipe, it'll still more effective than the stock airbox.

[Erbe]

yeh....is it more effective than ram though....cus thats what i have now....and i think i know how the water bipass valve works...im not that sure though

[Silver Streak]

Just checkout my website, I have some pretty cheap mods on there.

CAI, Custom grill, painting stuff, clearing/redding out tails, little switches and crap, etc...

[grapefury]

water that happened to get sucked in..

[Erbe]

so.....dont do a CAI, is that what ur tryin to tell me

[grapefury]

and plus a cai makes this extra sound that some ppl find annoying

[rezzle]

Originally posted by grapefury


water that happened to get sucked in..

Don't do this ... (see bottom of page)

http://www.homestead.com/mongrelmoto.../history2.html

and you won't hydrolock.

Sucking in some rain water would just make you either run really well, or run really bad depending on the amount.

Just build your box large enough it wont fill and put ia small hole in the bottom.

[Erbe]

if i got the bypass valve...how much protection does that have against hydro-lock

[Nick]

lots of protection, there's a video out there of an nsx with an intake tube/filter that gets dunked into an aquarium

wasn't at idle either, this was on a dyno

[Erbe]

wow.....it was the AEM one right.....but it seems that it would disrupt the performance of the intake...

[87Camry5Speed]

How are you guys running that cold air? I would think that the version I'm planning on, which runs into the fender, wouldn't suck up any water provided the inner fender cover is reintalled b/c it still sits fairly high. (on the gen2 there's a hole in the fender which the hood cable and a wiring harness runs through, just have to widen it a bit for the piping)

I suppose it has more to do with how the system is routed?

Steve

[88 LE]

Originally posted by 87Camry5Speed
on the gen2 there's a hole in the fender which the hood cable and a wiring harness runs through, just have to widen it a bit for the piping

Wrong hole.

You want to use the hole underneath the fuse box. After you remove all the stock intake crap you'll see it.