-NashA4: Its not a CAI you can buy I made it using the materials that EUROA4 posted on his thread before...search custom intake and I think you should probably find it. You dont have to use the OEM intake piece at all, that's actually my next project this weekend. I'm going to look around and see where else I might draw from and what my options are for different piping. Personally i think the OEM pipe sucks so I will see what I can do it might involve getting a new grill and routing a bigger pipe through there or drawing from the wheel well or the duct at the bottom of the bumper.
-GEkido: When I went to home depot they had very little to choose from. I went with the 19 gauge aluminum which was a little thin for my taste but if you look carefully at my pictures (ill take better ones if you want) I actually made the heat shield out of two pieces, the one big on and then in the front by the actual intake piece I created another piece that wrapped around the intake hose going to the engine. that combined with strategic bending and the brackets I made (one attached to the intake tube, one on the bottom, and one near the windshield) actually create a pretty stiff piece. The problem with going to thick is it will be a pain to try and get it to bend and especially with me to get that second piece under the intake tube so its up to you but it works for me.
-EuroA4 Let me know if you decide to go with the new ducting/piping because I'm gonna try and get that together this weekend and see what works, maybe put my mechanical engineering classes to use for once. Thanks again for your post it was a big help with the part #'s and materials
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