Engine It's Here Finally!

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It's Here Finally!

For those that read the Crazy Shipping Time post. We finally got the Injen CAI. UPS dropped it off late yesterday evening. Installation will be later today after work. Check it out...

You are better than me my friend, After UPS dropped it off, I would have been installing that sucka. Good Deal....I like that....it's shiny

BTW Nice womans world mag

haahaa...lol.(not my mag!). The original plan was for me to install it after coming from this Martial Arts class. But when I took a look at Injen's recommended way of installing this beast, I knew I wasn't going to spend all night trying to do it myself. Average time I've been seeing to install this is about 2hrs. So, I figured I would wait till today. If I did it last night, I would be doing it all by myself. But if I waited till today, my girl would be able to assist in the install. I'm teaching her about modding your car the right way.

It should be a piece of cake if you already had one installed. I bought a CP CAI from ebay. Just a "for the while thing". Then I got an AEM short ram system. Very pleased with that.

This is for a TC, not Corolla. The TC is stock, except for a few asthetic improvements.

Here are a few pics I took during the installation, and a vid after everything was done.


Before install


My girl getting dirty too, removing the bolts from the bumper


Hours later

The was taken by my girls brother. I didn't bother to edit it on this go around. The intake is configured in CAI mode. I tested both SRI and CAI sounds when it was just sitting in the garage and being rev'd. The next vid for you guys and gals will be that of the intake in SRI mode. I have a feeling that it's going to sound louder than in CAI mode. Without further babble....the Video


Analysis:

At the beginning of the vid, I think something was loose, so therefore you couldn't hear anything going on. Then I checked my piping and connnections and restarted the engine, and Vroooommm.....

Ok, for you that don't have an intake, this thing can whistles loud enough to be mistaken for a BOV. Are they making intakes to sound more like turbo these days or what? Being that this is our first and only performance mod, I didn't really expect to feel to much of a gain. I only drove it a few blocks, I will have to drive it today to get a better assesment of the potential. I will say this though, for some reason it feels as if the engine is not constricted by the red line as much as before. Also, in CAI mode, when taking off in first gear, you hear the whistle of the intake but it's not deep, then every shift there after, when the RPM drops, the intake seems to just get mean with you, and you hear the whistle as you shift followed by a deep groan to which the groan gets louder/higher pitch when the RPM's increase. Like I said before, I will make another video when I convert it back to SRI mode, and see what the sound variance is. I have a feeling that it's going to be a bit louder in SRI mode. The neat thing about it is that if you are just cruzin, you don't get annoyed with the loud tone. It's pretty quite , that is until you step on it, then people are going to be like DAMN! One more note, I also have a 95 Rolla DX that has a SRI on it. When I start my Rolla, you can hear the intake sucking(especially on cold days) like a vaccum cleaner sounds. However, the Injen in CAI mode is so quite at idle, that you can't even tell it's there until you rev the engine and hear the SSSSIIISSH WOOOOOMMM!!!!. When I do a comparison to the SRI, I assume it's going to be like my Rolla, and have that vaccum suction sound upon start up.

Ok, here is the second vid. It's pretty short, due to the fact that I was the one holding the camera and trying to drive my 95 Corolla DX 5spd at the same time. (Don't try to drive a 5spd, and hold a video at the same time!). Anyways, the next vid that I post will be of me in the driver seat of the TC. Here you go, enjoy...Injen Intake Chronicles 2

isnt there a tc or scion site for you guys.

I'm on there too. I have a 95 Rolla DX as well. So, I'm just sharing the love.

so are you saying that you are going to run the SRI more than the CAI or what?

Not likely, I just want to run it for a little while to do a sound/performance comparison.

SRI sounds better though right