hello i just joined this group on saturday and wow what great people thank you all for the advice...i would like to know what your opions are for a cold air intake for my monte 3.8 ss 2001 i have looked on e-bay and have found some they all seem to do the same job k@n seem to be the most expensive one going for my car and i have found cheaper ones to, that have the same set up except the box suround that k@N has is there a differance in some of these or are they all the same they all seem to use reusable filters and use the same cleaning solution k@n lol...so i want to know what performace gains you got when you put it on your car... thanks todd

 

Tons and tons of threads on all sorts of intakes for your car.

#1 intake would be the Wizaired from ZZPerformance.com
#2 would be to make your own FWI

Open cones are never a good idea. K&N is a glorified open cone, I have one, I hate it. The heat shield does nothing.

 

I run the Wizaired CAI and as Chibi said the K&N's are pretty much useless as soon as you start generating some heat in your engine bay, that's all its sucking up, kinda takes the COLD out of CAI... Also the Wizaired is a great easy fit for our cars, and the performance gain is noticeable... Good luck and welcome... Keep us up-dated...

 

You could make your own that's what I did

 

I'm not sure what you mean by making an FWI ? I have cold air intakes on my other vehicles, and they work great. I'm running AFE and AEM on those. I have no idea on how to make one myself, any suggestions on how to keep the hot air out? Any videos out there on how to do this?

 

where did you put the filter? that looks awesome

 

I made the box here's a pic with box removed...

 

Here is how my Wizaired CAI looks... It will suck up 99% cold outside air from both (behind the headlight & Fender well) locations... FWI, is a Fender Well Intake, lots of posts on here explaining the how-to... Hope this helps...

 

thank you very much, i love the way that looks. i might try to do that myself.

 

Had I seen zjerry's set-up before I bought mine, I would certainly have givin it a shot, just don't know if I'm that handy... lol...