ELP CAI for 2001 Corolla CE

Allright Stage 2

My friend's kind dad let me borrow his shop for a bit, and I had to work with what I had,

Bad Ass C Clamp



and grinder bit with power drill



and the result...........its a clean hole!



Stage 3 would be to glue this mount onto the hole, and more work as I get a chance,...will keep you guys posted..

Very nice. It seems like you know what you're doing.

i dont have it clamped anywhere...no problems with rattling or anything.

I'm stuck! The dang mount that I bought doesn't have a hole big enough to let the MAFS through! Its about a mm smaller in dia.... I don't know if I can find another one, this itself took me forever to find. Right now, I'm planning to find a crappy MAFS from a junkyard and try forcing it through.

oh i forgot you didn'thave another intake

Use a dremel and bore it out a little.

you could've used that existing hole, as the hole for the mafs. that's what i did. look at my pics. i drew a square around the non-vvti hole mafs for cutting so that i wouldn't have to patch it or perform another crappy weld job just to cover it. lol4

Look at my pix. My CAI was for a VVT-i engine and was modified for use with a non-VVT-i engine. The original hole for the MAFS was sealed and another hole was bored very close to it. I couldn't cut ou a square like you did coz
1. I don't have another intake from which I can cut parts out and use
2. Even if I did have another intake and I used the mount from it like you did, I would not have been able to make it work coz the original MAFS mount (that was sealed up) is too close and too big to fit anything around it.