How to: Cold Air Intake

[Marc]

Hey Guys,

Just wondering if anyone has done a CAI on their Starion and if so what is the best way i should go about it??? The standard one inside the right front quarter panel doesnt look that efficient to me.

Also if anyone got any photos of it that would be great.

Appreciate the help as always! :D

[chunkhead]

Hold on there champ!

The Standard Starion airbox contains the AFM! This NEEDS to be in there for the antique computer to function! In order to upgrade the intake system you will need an aftermarket computer. There has been some mods made using a pod and filtering cold air into the stock airbox, but it's messy! :beer

[Marc]

Yeah i'm totally aware of the the air sensor in the airbox and i'm NOT removing it anytime soon...

but just wondering if anyone has successfully modified the hose/tubing coming out of the side of the box to take in more direct air...???

thanks

[flav]

You can cut a hole in the lower section of the can and run a tube under the headlight. Many varietes of tube avail. from clarke rubber. It wont affect the AFM provided its filtered air. If you see Dimms in the for sale section, he has this system in a car he is selling.

[Marc]

Thanks for info Flav

i'll check it out..

[cheaterparts]

Just wondering if anyone has done a CAI on their Starion

hope you thought of an intercooler first
cooling the air after the turbo is more important

cheater

[flav]

Yes, true in every way!
....but 10 times the cost. I have to say, the gain in doing the cold air mod is minimal as these cars have cold air anyway, but every little bit helps and with winding up the boost it's a good thing. I would say that just keeping your air cleaner in top shape will give you more performance. I see 90% of them are in crappy shape coming through here, so yea, in most cases i fling u a new one free or wash out your mesh one.

[Starion_Turbo]

Theres a great setup in canada however it dosn't look quite like it'd fit ours, its got an extra rectangle cut in top for something we dont have..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Air-inta ... dZViewItem

[Marc]

Just wondering if anyone has done a CAI on their Starion

hope you thought of an intercooler first
cooling the air after the turbo is more important

cheater

I would love to install an IC! Of course there is NO comparison between the 2 mods. But don't have that $$$ right now for an IC.

Just looking on doing some much cheaper mods for time being....

[Starquest86]

Did you ever consider just cutting your stock air can. I did it on my car wish i had pictures but i dont. But if you are looking to just bring in more air this works well. I have a picture of it done on my 1g DSM but i dont know how to load pictures from my saved file. You could probably just search "Cut air filter mod 1g" and you would probably see what i mean.

Garrett G$

[Marc]

yeah i've seen this done before... correct me if i'm wrong, but arnt i just letting in more hot air from the engine bay if i cut it????

[Starion_Turbo]

yeah i've seen this done before... correct me if i'm wrong, but arnt i just letting in more hot air from the engine bay if i cut it????

when the cars moving, all the hot air will move to the back of the engine bay so the air around the filter box will be reasonably cool.

[Abalistic]

This subject was talked about before at this link.

http://forums.austarion.com/viewtopic.php?t=6726


:)
A.

[Marc]

when the cars moving, all the hot air will move to the back of the engine bay so the air around the filter box will be reasonably cool.

That is so simple it makes perfect sense! why didn't i think of that??

thanks mate

[chunkhead]

My airbox has heaps of holes cut out of it, about the size of a 50 cent coin!