I have a 1995 Chevy Monte Carlo LS 3.1 V6 and I looking to custom make a CAI and put in a glasspack. Does anyone know like a step-by-step guide to building/installing a CAI? Also, how do you install a glasspack? Or should I go with a Cherrybomb exhaust?

 

I don't know if there is a custom CAI guide for the 5th gen montes- you have a hard time because the battery is in the way of your fenderwell- so you're tighter on space in there.

Take a cutoff wheel, and cut out the exhaust component you want to replace, and weld in the glasspack in its place. You can use those stupid clamps and such, but that's ghetto- the right way to do exhaust is to weld it.

What do you mean by cherrybomb exhaust? Cherry bomb makes a lot of different mufflers (including glasspacks- I've had their glass pack on my 3100 monte before). Its like saying should you do a 'flowmaster exhaust'- when flowmaster has like 8 different muffler types.

Not to mention, no one can really tell you what kind of exhaust you want, its up to your ears as to what sounds good. It also depends what you want to replace with the glasspack. If you replace the muffler- its going to get a lot louder, and deeper. If you replace your resonator (which it is more similar to)- then you'll get a very similar sound to what you have now, maybe even a little quieter depending how big of a glasspack you go with.

Back when I had the 3100 in my monte, I had a HAI (just a bare filter hanging in the engine bay)- removed the resonator with straight pipe, and replaced the muffler with a glasspack (purple hornie at first, then a cherrybomb glasspack when that system rusted out). It was loud, nasty- and I loved it.

However, the older I got- the more I realized how retarded I sounded, driving around in a screaming loud 16/17 second car. It may have been getting beaten by too many bone stock BMW's, camaro's and such with silent stock exhaust- I dunno- it just started feeling weird having the 'top fuel drag car' loudness with Honda Civic performance to back it up- you know?

 

well first off you probably should have kept this in your last thread. but how much money do you have for these 2 projects youre wanting to do?? you could have a muffler shop do the exhaust for you, its not too expensive. the CAI, just buy some pipes from autozone and some couplers, and make your way into your fender or into the bumper and buy a cone filter. then you have to make your own holes for whatever sensors or lines you have going into your stock intake. like i said look at your last thread, i put a link to my CAI and you can use that as a basic plan and work out the bugs from there.