CAI With Battery

Roel sent this in to me. For those of you who want to run a CAI setup and still have the battery in the stock location, here's the solution. Roel did a really clean job. The edited portions of the passage are red.

I wanted a cold air induction for my GT-S. Any where I went, no one carried it, and after carefully inspecting the underhood space, I can see why. No room. The battery is in the way to where you can actually run it where there is a little hole where the original air pipe goes. After some thinking,I decided to make my own. Heres my recipe:

• One trip to the junk yard
• Look for a Toyota Cressida (A Toyota Supra will work, too), and take the plastic intake pipe going over the center valley of the head. It's the only one that is oval and round at the entries. It is oval to clear the hood when it closes.
• Run over the Chrysler section, and look for the Le Barons with turbos. Look for a nice one bent at 90 degrees, and take it along with the connector hose (make sure you take all the clamps to connect the pipes later)
• Pay for the two pipes--I paid $13.85 for both--and go home.
• Now, its time to install it. Remove the factory air filter box and the base. Make sure you have your AFM adaptor plate along with your cone filter.
• Bolt on the adaptor plate.
• Slide in the connecter hose, and clamp on one side.
• Now take the oval pipe and connect that. The reason I took that pipe was because it can clear the battery without a problem. Then connect the 90° pipe to that one, and run it through the little hole. You may have to cut the hole a little bigger; at least I had too.
• Remove the left front tire and part of the inner fender plastic cover to make things easier.
• Once the hoses are through, connect the cone filter at the tip. Trim the 90° hose where neccessary.
• Don't forget to cover the two little pipes from the cressida pipe!
• Put everything back together, and "Presto!!" all done. Custom-made cold air induction.

Project Cost Breakdown:
• Cone fiter with adaptor plate: $54.00
• 2 hoses from salvage yard: $13.85
• 1 entry to yard: $1.00
• 1 six pack of grape soda $1.99+tax & CRV
• Total Cost= $70.84

I noticed that the car runs better after being stuck for an hour in traffic. Before it would run slow, now it runs like if it was cold. So there you have it, a cheap affordable way for a cold air intake; doesn't look fancy, but it does its job.