I was shopping around for cold air intakes and I'm pretty sure I'll be going with AEM or Injen. My question is once i get the cold air intake and install it to clean the filter do I have to take out the wheel well everytime or is it accessible without removing anything?

 

NO! all you have to do is remove your headlight and headlight bracket and everything is right there for you removing and install .

 

Get the GMPP Performance Intake and you don't have to remove anything to replace the filter

 

Yeah, bt its not a CAI, and filters are $35-40 everytime.

If you clean them all the red comes off.

 

I really don't understand why people keep saying the GMPP is not a CAI -- it sucks air from behind the headlight (seals to hood to stop underhood air from getting to the filter) so it is a cold air intake The filter is just in the middle of the CAI instead of at the end

 

Well **** if thats your logic, why did we buy the GMPP at all since the stock setup is obviously a CAI too then

But seriously, it doesnt suck air through the back of the headlight, it sucks it through the same god awful maze of baffles and mufflers as the factory airbox, because as you know, it uses the lower half of the factory airbox.

If you do that frre airbox mod, then MAYBE I'd let you call it a COOL airn intake.

 

Ik, we're thread jacking and i apologize, but if you would like to state that, how can dynos prove 6hp gains? :-)

 

6hp power gains from what?

 

I removed the air silencer assy from behind the headlight and replaced it with a dual-tube 3 inch assy. The hole at the bottom of the filter box is 3.5", I think.

In reality the air has a straight shot through the silencer assy -- it is not really very restrictive -- the bottleneck is where it goes into the hole at the bottom of the filter box.

 

I have the Injen. I have the tubing for the CAI, but I just run it as an SRI. I love it. I blocked off the breather tube on the intake, and just ran an open element breather on the engine block. I have a K&N Ultra Flow cone filter on it too. It's open all around instead of just the sides.. Top too. Nice ass set-up. Sounds real good and looks sweet too. I bought mine used and saved half. All I did was eventually replaced the filter. I know you can clean them, but I always just replace them.. lol. I won't run it as a CAI until I get a water snorkel. We get too much rain here.. I've always liked SRI's, but I do even more after getting the ram-air hood..

 

You just throw out K&Ns? must be nice to have that kind of money to blow.

 

I find it easier to pop a few tabs and metal clips out of my fender well to access the filter than it is to remove the entire headlight.

 

No. This is my first K&N filter. The other one was the stock Injen one. The guy ran it as a CAI and it was really gunked up. Figured I'd start fresh.

Honestly though, what's 50 bucks every year or so anymore? This is my first actual K&N, so I might clean this one. My other filters were basically all stock ones that came on the intakes.. You also don't have to get K&N cones remember.. Lots of companies make cones for half..

 

i just throw out KnN's, i never clean them, im to lazy i rather just go grab a new one...but i get them free so its no big deal to me

 

been wondering about this one coz its almost time to clean mine. thanks for the fyi's.

 

i don't have to remove anything to get to my filter on my injen i just pull back the plastic under it after like 4 bolts. just the little plastic cover its flexible enough to bend back.

 

So with the Injen in CAI configuration, you need to remove the headlight every time you need to swap the filter?

I thought that was just for the install, I guess I have not pictured where the filter sat too well and assumed Injen put the location somewhere accessible so that dismantling the car was not a routine part of swapping the filter.

I do have this on the to get list.

I am getting the BADMAB header and Tsudo N-1 exhaust first though.

 

I remove the headlight and assembly because it's easier for me to do that than the fender lining. I can do the whole thing in 10 minutes or so..