Engine ELP CAI question

ELP CAI question

has anyone here who uses it stumbled on problems with the ELPCAI for 8th gens? Just wondering i wanted one but idk where to find them. lol

they're kinda sold out. but keep searching ebay or vvti.net forums. once in a while they show up. i bought a non-vvti ELP-CAI and i had to modify it so that my MAF can fit. it works just fine for me. but keep your eyes open. you can always make one yourself! ebay sells intake tubing and couplers. i'm thinking about doing that! i beleive someone on here made a custom cai. you need this special part.

http://www.thepartsbin.com/catalog/...aptor&catalog=p


attatch couplers and intake tubing. ohh yeah make a hole in the pipe so you can attatch your pcv hose to the intake and voila! you have a cai. you can route it any which way you want away from hot under-the-hood temps

Dudes, I have that stupid Spectre MAFS adapter and trust me the MAF dosen't fit. I'm stuck with my CAI modding coz the darn hole on this adapter and all the supproting mounts are a little too small. You'll have to bore it out a little and thats crappy plastic...not too good for boring out.

i gotta see it to beleive it. but thanks for the warning. maybe it's a prizm thing.

Also, if you have a Mandrel accesible, just bend a 2.5" aluminium pipe in the shape of the ELPCAI and weld a 3/8" pipe/nozzle (for the vacuum hose) to the main tube. Then, cut out a hole big enough for the MAFS to go through and use the mount from the above spectre thingy. You might need to bore it out a little, but who knows, maybe I just got a crappy piece and yours might just fit right.

someone on the forums here was able to do it and he has a corolla. i'll find the thread

WHOA!! NEVERMIND. he used an old SRI and hacked it up and made his own custom piping... screw the spectre!!!

polkadots, just get an sri hack it around the maf hole and pcv tube and couple it with other bent intake pipe.

I've seen it too!

ELP CAI FTW!!!

Hey jon, Dr. Tweak did a custom CAI. The guy relocated his bat so his CAI just goes straight through the hole, looks cleaner and more efficient. I'll try to find pictures.

no way!

I would have done this early on but I don't want to run lead wires from the battery in the trunk all the way back up to the car.

do u happen to know the diameter on this CAI? i've done something like this but i used a pvc straight down the hole lol. Didn't work out since it was a 2" all the way down.

Found it. Hope you don't mind Dr. Tweak







w/ by-pass valve

that's way cool!! i dunno if i want to relocate my battery. relocating the battery sounds like a lot of work.

ohh he's also using the aem dryflow filter.. never have to oil it.

It's fairly easy to do. You just need wires, battery box, fuse box.

Here's a diagram from a friend at GT:


Who wants a group DIY? Hehe.

The problem is that I have a grounding kit so with the battery in the trunk, it would render the kit useless.

It won't be useless. If you look at the diagram, there's a negative(blue) wire that goes back to the engine bay. All you have to do is to mount your grounding kit in the same area.

Ok... but even if I move the battery to the trunk, I still have my ELP CAI. LOL I don't want to get rid of it. hehe

Let's create another thread. Sorry to jack-up your thread polkadots.