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84vette
01-17-2010, 10:06 PM
My write up on a diy Cold air/Ram air intake for an lt1/tpi corvette this cost me around 10 bucks.
Ok so the stock air box breath threw this small holehttp://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/alterchristopher/c582b9a5.jpg
So i took the air box out and went to cutting came out with this
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/alterchristopher/35102e01.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/alterchristopher/e084e189.jpg
Use the cut out as a template to cut here got this
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/alterchristopher/49c7e22b.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/alterchristopher/c1de2814.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/alterchristopher/2fdc2ff5.jpg
I used the scrap and rtv to plug the stock air hole so it will breath only threw the new hole and filter
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/alterchristopher/0d74b67e.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/alterchristopher/b513d304.jpg
reused the stock air filter seal and rtv to seal the box together
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/alterchristopher/49ef40a4.jpg
When its all put together you cant tell I did anything
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h60/alterchristopher/20e71094.jpg
I have had this setup for 6 month with no codes
and the motor seems to rev more freely as well .

Theo
03-06-2010, 10:11 AM
I am really interested what you have doen but unfortunately cannot open your pictures.
Could you perhaps re-send them in another format like jpeg etc? Appreciate!!!
Thanks Theo

84vette
03-09-2010, 07:49 PM
will do man sorry

Theo
05-09-2010, 07:06 AM
Done the same and works really well and makes sense!