In all serious i think we need a stiky post on pods/CAI, exhausts and lowering... the ammount of times its brought up
if u dont go cold air intake then ur wasting ur money and time... simply put
if you want to ust buy a kit that bolts right on to your car, and is easy, no problems go with henry's kit, +it looks pretty nice in the engine bay
so here is henry's bolt on kit for cold air intake = ~$280 +post (includes everything u need)
or if ur still keen on losing power and want something cheap that sucks hot air but is better than ur average poddy = ~$90 +post
other than that u can no have a pod and do what josh did and get some flexy pipe from autobarn for $20
and remove your lower resonators and pipe the flexy pipe down the hole to ur front bumper so it feeds cold air to ur stock air box
on ebays there is some pretty good ones TBH, and they come cheap, plus they have a good range of enclosed pods which is what you really wnat regardless of your states laws
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/K-N-APOLLO-CLOSE ... 3cad44f9dc
could use one of these with some flexi pipe to put it at ur front bar, but you would need maybe 1 or 2 brackets to hold it there
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/AIR-RAM-POD-FILT ... 3cab17da76
same goes for this
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/JDM-Performance- ... 230ad40164
i dont really think these are that good, but u will keep ur throttle response (not that u ever lose it that much with a cai) but u wont get as much gains
coz it sucks hot air, and then probably 30:70 cold air once u get up some speed, ur choice here it is
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/POD-FILTER-INTAK ... 2a0a7e20dd
my final word on it is definitly go CAI, keep it away from as much heat as possible and have it enclosed so its legal, also braket it properly so it doesnt hang around coz that is also deffective
and finally your best bet is to go with henry's CAI the 1st picture and here is a website for him, send him an email if ur interested (his cai is well worth it)
http://members.iinet.net.au/~henry.pham/intakes.html
3rd pic down or one at bottom depending on ur engine
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could also get an RPW kit
4g15/ 1.5L engine------>
http://www.rpw.com.au/shop/index.php?pa ... t&Itemid=1
4g93/ 1.8L engine------>
http://www.rpw.com.au/shop/index.php?pa ... t&Itemid=1