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eBay Intake turned out quite the deal haha

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#1 ·
So I got this "true" cold air intake off of eBay for about $70, free shipping. It comes with polished piping with either red or blue couplers and tubing. the filter is a pretty solid filter and seems very comparable to K&N. The install went perfect, had to cut the rubbing tubing a little bit (a lot of excess) but otherwise went very easy. It feels and looks very high quality, without a doubt. And it sits down in the fender like a true CAI should. The sound it makes when you rev is very nice as well. I don't have any complaints or regrets about purchasing this over the $300 brand-name product.
 
#5 · (Edited)
this is the system i bought... i figured it would be a POS with the price but it turned out to work very nicely. The only issues with it were the straight pipe was a bit long so I had to cut it down about 1 inch, and thats where the found out that the material used was a pretty good quality and thickness. The blue line is a bit loose and flimbsy so I used some scissors and cut that back about 6 inches and theres no good way to support it so I used the clamp as a support. Same for the system mount and you can see in the primary elbow down to the filter. No good mounting spots so I improvised as best as possible. As far as functionality... I'd say its worth NOT spending 200-300 on a brand name system.

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#6 ·
I also purchased an Airaid pre-filter from Jegs to keep water out of the filter.

The filter it came with was a good K&N quality filter. And over the years i've always used K&N on all my cars... the DD's and the track cars... and this filter was very close in quality.
 
#8 ·
Those are my thoughts as well. But for $70 and a couple tweaks... worth not spending the money on brand name IMO
 
#15 ·
It looks very close... I'm sure it's the same but not the same vender. Check out the link I put up on the first page and search his other items
 
#17 ·
Ive seen the ebay ones. They are not true cai's. They are the same style as my injin short ram and stop behind the head light. To be a true cai it must drop down into the bumper or wheel well so that its drawing air from outside and not the hot air from the engine bay

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#18 ·
Maybe I'm missing something here, but wouldn't a metallic CAI kind of miss the mark for the purpose here? The great thing about the rubber/plastic CAIs is how much thermal insulation they have to guard against heat being absorbed into the air from the surrounding materials under the hot-a$$ hood. The point there being to cool down the IAT sensor.

If the IAT sensor isn't cool, then it's not going to make much of a difference because the computer won't adjust for the cooler temperature. Especially if you're using the stock IAT sensor, which is very close to the wall of an IAT, it must read a lot of extra heat from the metallic CAI. Consider replacing your IAT with the one from the Challenger, which puts the sensor closer to the center of the tube at least.

Just my $0.02. After reading countless threads on the matter on these boards, I ended up going with the SRT8 OEM CAI with the Challenger IAT. As per my ScanGaugeII, when driving highway speeds, my IAT is within 2 degrees of ambient, which is about the best you can ask for on a WK IMHO.
 
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