Air Intake

Anybody out there?

Yeah I know what you mean man, it does look quite difficult. The owners manual suggests a professional does it.

Nobody knows anything yet. The car just came out not to long ago,and not that many people have them yet to know.

Yeah it is a bit of a pain. The easiest thing to do is to first undo the hose clamps around both the box and the throttle body. Get that hose out of the way. The lid will come off, but you can go at it from below. That's a little easier. Good luck!

As in take part of the belly pan off near the lf tire? Go in from there?

sounds like they made it easy to work on huh
did you finally get the intake off, or anyone else have any other instructions?

Yeah I got to it. Its really not too bad. Just gotta get it up in the air so you can take the plastic cover off just in front of the fender, then the filter is enclosed in a cone type case just above the cover.

Take the front drivers side wheel off
Removed a lot of fasteners
Pull off wheel well shroud
pop hood
remove driver side head light and head light mounting bracket.

Look at air box.

I have taken mine apart. It's a pretty big honking airbox.

Ummm is that a joke remove the headlight just to get to the air box.

Spdfrk1990 said:

Ummm is that a joke remove the headlight just to get to the air box.

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You definitely do NOT need to remove a headlight to do this. I'd only recommend doing this if you like to make more work for yourself.

dose anyone know when they are thinking about an cold air intake will be out for my ss

I'm with you on this one. I don't plan on major mods but I want to do some CAI real soon.

this is a really stupid question but i will ask so i know for sure since the redline is just like the ss cant i get a air intake for the redline and it will fit the my ss

Will they make an ram air intake for it because it will be cheaper for the car and becuase of the sc the cold air will be pointless becuase the air will be so hot in the end you just wasted your money when the ram air will do the same thing and give more for the buck.

The best way to get to the airbox is to jack up the car, and take off the plastic liner in front of the wheel. It is really easy after that.

hitthecones said:

You definitely do NOT need to remove a headlight to do this. I'd only recommend doing this if you like to make more work for yourself.

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Taking the head light off isn't hard it's like 6 bolts. It makes it a LOT easier to get the airbox out. Why does it make it easier, cause you can see it and unhook all the wire connectors easier.

Take off the headlight assembly and the wheel/shroud and it's pretty easy to get out from there. It's tucked in there tho.

Actually you only need to take 4 screws out of the plastic under the airbox once the car is jacked up. Then you can fold the plastic out of the way, and the 4 screws holding the bottom of the airbox on are right there. I drilled some holes in the airbox to let more air in. definetly helped out. I think once you add a K&N and swiss cheese the airbox, you wont need to buy a CAI.