Is there any way tha someone can make a home-made cold air intake?If so what is the best way?

Answer 1

yes and no is really all i can say because i know it just looks like a bunch of pipes but cold air intakes are actually messured out curb by curb to help the air flow at its best for your car not to mention that with a poorly designed intake that sits to low you can soak the inside of your engine and nearly destroy it but heck you'll have to take it completely apart after that any how just to dry it... i recomend finding your cars genetic twin and using a short ram intake from it (example:: chevy cavalier to pontiac sunfire ect ect ect) i dont know what car you drive so i cant be much help but for example i have a 2000 saturn ls witch they make no perfomance parts for "the car" BUT the saturn Ion uses the exact same engine and so do some of the sc witch are sports cars so i guess they just push what sounds good on paper like my honda accord i can modify it from bumper to bumper all day long but in reallity it aint much different from my saturn stock its actually slower than my saturn but oh well

Answer 2

Years ago I installed a cowl induction air intake on my 69 Impala---removed the wiper motor and used the hole in the firewall to run a short piece of dryer vent tubing to the aircleaner which I modified to have a larger snorkel hole. Had seen a setup like this on a racecar and built my own to match. Worked pretty good I thought----drawing in high pressure cool air at the base of the windshield when driving which is similiar to a cowl induction type hood on older Camaro's and Chevelle's. Only problem was I couldn't drive in the rain much but I used Rain-X and it worked pretty good.
Anyone can build their own cold-air intake with little ingenuity and by figuring out where to draw in the colder air from that's convenient---then just fabricate some tubing from dryer vent pipe or accordian style flex pipe, even universal exhaust flex pipe. Pickup a used air cleaner for your car to practice on or keep as a backup Plan on changing air filters more often too.

Answer 3

Dude, if you're driving a car that was built within the last 15 years it already HAS a cold air intake!!!

Answer 4

yes it can be done,but what you would have to do is look the car over then go to a junk yard and look for the pieces you would need for doing this,but its possible,i have seen some home made ones that looked really good,and worked really good,you,d just have to decide where you wanted the air to come in at,and find a piece from a junk yard that worked well,i made one for my air compressor in the shop that pulls out side air from the back of the shop,and i used a air intake hose from a grand am to do this with,and it works like a dream,it can be done though,good luck with it.

Answer 5

Considering that you can buy one at a building supply store for less than $20, trying to do it yourself seems rather pointless. You can get the ductwork to install it also.