the 'elbow' is in the passenager side wheel well...you can't miss it..big ass plastic piece that you just don't need...the only reason I dont like CAI is because they seem to suck water like a straw when the car goes through puddles....otherwise..just dont go cheap...you need an intake that work with the MAF sensor...I have the HKS short ram...works great in all conditions..but be sure to do your research before deciding on any WRX upgrade.
removing the elbo in your curent air-box assembly will allow you to hear the car pulling air, and the turbo will be louder, but it wont increase air-flow or power.
in fact, no intake system will increase power if you dont have a slew of other mods that require the higher volume of air.
go get a perrin or k&n drop in filter, and then go get a down pipe if you want some power.
Yeah, downpipe is where the power is at. Like Nose Nuggets said, get a drop-in filter. But if you MUST have an intake, get the TXS Shorty intake or the Perrin short-ram.
IMO...unless you are running a Big turbo and a lot of power an aftermarket intake isn't needed...just go into the wheel well and take the elbow out...you will notice a difference in turbo spool and sound instantly.
I didnt mean in the sense that he must do it. I meant that someone people have the mindset that no matter what anyone tells them, its what they want and they are going to buy it no matter what. I was saying if he was thinking like that, then those whould be his 2 best options.
i wouldn't mess with a drop in filter either. They just let more dirt in, with gain of about nothing.
My MAFv testing done by myself on both stock vs KnN have proven, they don't flow any more to even be picked up by our stock MAF, which is fairly sensitive.
I used to run a KnN for the first 40K of my car, and every oil analsys i sent (blackstone labs did the testing) in came back with high silicon content. This means DIRT in my engine oil. THeir suggestion every time was check the air intake system for leaks, welp i have no leaks, only a KnN. FOr the last 10K i've been running a stock filter, and have sent my last 8K oil change interval into blackstone, now i'm just awaiting what i suspect will be much lower levels of silicon (should have the results any day now).
or you can buy an silencer delete elbow which will eliminate the silencer part and will connect the airbox with the snorkle which is supposed to suck air from the front of the car.
these cost like 40 something bucks on ebay, GPMoto makes them, but to tell you the truth, you will not be hearing anything impressive...
or you can buy an silencer delete elbow which will eliminate the silencer part and will connect the airbox with the snorkle which is supposed to suck air from the front of the car.
these cost like 40 something bucks on ebay, GPMoto makes them, but to tell you the truth, you will not be hearing anything impressive...
what do you mean sucking air from the wheel well and "to each their own"? your leaving the tube that connects into the engine compartment from the wheel well right?
what do you mean sucking air from the wheel well and "to each their own"? your leaving the tube that connects into the engine compartment from the wheel well right?
There is an aftermarker tube that is just an elbow with out the big plastic baffle attached...I didn't but an elbow in at all and just left the airbox to get the air from the wheel well rather than the intake on the front of the car. To each thier own is...everyone has thier on way of doing things...nothing said in here has been wrong...it's all about what you want to do...I don't like to spend money that I don't have to so I never bought the elbow and just simply took the air baffle out.
so you even took the piece out of the wheel well. did you leave the stock ram air on? or did you take that off too.
see at first i thought the stock ram air was the elbow, but i got it now
thanks alot and sorry if it took awhile
how do you get the elbow out. it was easy to take off the stock ram air but i cant seem to get the stock elbow out. i took off the one screw, and the only way that i can see to get it out is through the 2 holes that it connects. but i cant seem to fit it out of the holes.
what am i doing wrong.
how do you get the elbow out. it was easy to take off the stock ram air but i cant seem to get the stock elbow out. i took off the one screw, and the only way that i can see to get it out is through the 2 holes that it connects. but i cant seem to fit it out of the holes.
what am i doing wrong.
jack up your car, take off the passenger-side wheel. take off the plastic liner that is in the wheel well, it should come off easily after you take off the plastic "bolts" that hold it in place. Then you are going to see a big plastic piece that looks like a box, it should come off just as easily after you unbolt it, you can access one bolt by sticking your hand into the wheel well and the other one is on the engine compartment. Put the plastic linerand the wheel back on, take the jack off and you are good to go.
...At least thats the way I did it, off course it will be safer if you use jackstands but I dont have those...
...now go get your hands dirty and have fun! !Thumbs Up
you can debadge your trunk and disconnect the thing (I don't know if its a relay) that make the daytime running lights feature go on, performance wise... ...I dunno
you will have to buy some materials but if you have some mechanical ability and common sense this stuff is pretty easy and fairly cheap with good rewards.
3/16th mod, costs about $2
Clear your headlights, not sure $$
Debadge, Free
Paint Rims, costs over $10
Feeling you get when you hit peak boost in WOT, priceless
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