Cai

when I get off my lazy arse and up load the pics.... I'll be able to better desrcibe what I'm talking about. If you want a real pro looking finish to this, you need to treat it like body work. get it built and ready to go, then really take your time and do the finish work right! I've listed a few things that would help and kept some to myself since I am starting a finishing company and that would be giving away tricks that make mine look better than others.
 
oh and get a dremmel with a sanding wheel and make your holes in the fender look better. If you are worried about making a show quality CAI, then make the installation show quality too! If its just a show where everyone looks and has a good time big deal. If its a judged competition, the attention to detail is EVERYTHING!!!!!!!! I spent 5 minutes painting the spare compartment of my trunk to show off the Nitrous bottle and the judges commented on it specifically!




I'm not trying to sound like a prick, I'm just throwing pointers out there for making these cars look that much better. They are IMO one fo the top 5 sexiest rides ever. They should be treated as such.
 
The stuff from "AZ" is that cheap chrome coated stuff from Specter. I also don't think they have the right stuff that we need.

So far my car has Red and Silver. Red emblems and Red stuff pads with a Silver body so when I have my intake made I am going with Red couplers and hopefully silver pipework. My wheels are Silver and the center caps are already starting to show some wear so I am sending those out to LMS sometime to get the Lincoln Star done in Red with a color matching Silver background to them. I wanna paint my engine cover Silver along with the strut tower covers and do the trimming like the lines and the V8 LINCOLN in Red. Exactly like you say its about being color coded but also what parts are what colors. I plan on doing small stuff in Red and larger stuff in Silver.

Like I said I also agree on some of the in home produced intakes I have seen with a dozen couplers holding together PVC This is a luxury car and it does deserve something clean.

I did see something that caught my eyes last night that I thought looked nice at Lowe's. I saw couplers that were black but had a stainless steel sheet covering them. For some of you that might be something nice to consider.

I agree with the hole in the fender as well! lol! I was editing my post as you posted....AGAIN!
 
silver piping might be rough for ya. The welding and grinding it going to make polishing hard to do..... You could paint it silver.... in fact there are tons of arguments to doing it in the same color as your car. The other half of color coding is not to over do it. My colors (everything is one of these colors including my helmet and fire jacket) are black and silver. Silver is broad... you can get bare metal in there too. Where your engine bay is painted silver.... it already has tons of black and tons of silver. I would almost leave the red out of there. Use some good degreaser in there and get that silver bay shining like new..... cleaner wax works wonders in there. I'f been contemplating doing a massive remake of the engine bay plastics. They just dont look they way I want. Not sure what I'm going to do, but with the new CAI looking awesome, the rest needs to be made to match or atleast to the same level
 
To late I made up my mind, to each his own and I think it will look great!

No offense but it seems as if you are giving biased opinions based on how your engine bay looks.

Of course I don't plan on polishing it I am actually debating on it being powder coated in Silver. I also don't plan on welding it, I am searching for a place that could just bend the tube and then of course weld in the nipples for the hose and the bracket to hold it in place.

I may add that not my entire emblem is Red, sorry. My emblem is silver with a red star giving some fine lines of accenting. Thats why I feel the small fine things in red will look good.

I also think with the all red taillights this will be a good way to go.
 
I actually did my last car (silver) with silver accents in the engine bay..... very quickly it became clear IMO that it gets over powering fast!

Not trying to sway your oppinion, just giving you other options. Oh and 3" piping is rough to find a bender for. Most places I've found that do exhaust can only bend up to 2.5" Best of luck though, you sound like you have good ideas!
 
I found one place that said it could be done in one day and go for around $120 tops probably less but they don't do the coating. I'm waiting to see my schedule for the next few weeks till I make the appointment since they surely wont welcome walk ins and have many other big projects to do.

As far as the Silver, you see I'm not doing Silver accents I'm doing Red. The inside of the engine bay could use some polishing up but it is Silver like the body of the car. Its a bit duller but its still Silver so using Silver as a main color to focus on wont be bad in my opinion as long as the Red is kept under control. Honestly neither of us could predict the outcome we can only judge it when its done.

3" shouldn't be that hard, the ones from LSK are 3" and they are mandrel bent. They seem to sell allot of those, just some FYI.

But thanks for wishing luck! Its appreciated.
 
120 bucks! damn guy! Send me 50 and I'll make one for ya!!!! HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!! I hope that was for coating not bending and I read that wrong.
 
No thats for bending and welding and thats cheap compared to the price they pay otherwise!

They doubt it will even cost that much. I have yet to show them the car and seeing how it is just a long tube with two bends they will probably drop that alot. You also have to consider this is a professional performance shop.

I called them and they told me they have not seen one yet for any car they did not get done in one day and would cost more than $120. I doubt this will take more than a half day and it is a very basic design to sum up my point.
 
I think mine cost 20 bucks..... I have fat bends though and a mandrel bender could possibly get some tighter bends. Definately keep me posted. I want to see this when its done. I'll get mine up here sooner or later. It'll probably be in my 6spd thread as part of the build.
 
Will do, keep in mind the only reason why yours was so cheap was because the labor was in your own hands.

I honestly doubt it will cost more than 80$ nore will I pay much more than that.
 
thats very true.... but if you have a buddy that can weld.... the rest is very easy!!!!!!!!!!!!! 20 bucks and a six pack for your buddy is still better than 80-120 bucks. Either way, like I said before, sounds like you some good ideas. Call me if you wanna chat cars. I'm always willing to talk cars and these cars esp!!!

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Yeah that would help but one, I don't know anyone that welds and two I would rather just have a clean straight forward job by going with the bending and not worrying about the other stuff that needs to be done following welding.
 
new pic after repaint and welding...
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Thats looking good. What did you use to cut the hole in the fender?
 
I'm going to buy the aluminum intake tube but I want to get a tube like the ones pictures so I can run it down into the fender to draw in the cooler air.
 
for those of you running the in fender cai, you may want to consider a water sock. I think they are like 20 bucks. K&N makes them as well as few other companies. They slide over the filter, dont restrict air flow on a N/A engine but protect your engine from sucking up water. Its not something you need, but I like to err on the safe side.
 
I used a dremel to cut the holes... still need to clean it up but i'm just lazy. It really has made a sound difference... I just really wish i had done it before removing the mufflers, so i could really hear what it sounds like.

Noticed a high rpm and high MPH increase... big difference at freeway speed...
 
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