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True Cold Air Intake System
This true cold air intake system is installed without making any changes to the appearance of the car, no holes are drilled and can be switched back at any time to the stock air intake tube. Also once installed it can not be seen. Those who want to maintain a stock appearance can install it and it will not affect you if judged at a show. No holes are drilled etc. It just bolts in.
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What is this kit?
Behind the side air intake grill is a special tube. Many call it a water separator but I feel the
real reason for it is to muffle the sound of the intake vacuum. So by removing this special
muffler tube piece and placing a straight tube in its place allows you to hear that cool sound the
intake makes. I have heard opinions in the past that there is little if any performance gains with
this intake muffler removed so I make no claims of horse power gains. This may not be true though.
Herb Adams did some tests with a 2.8 Fiero and what he did was remove the intake tube from the
throttle body to the air cleaner thus sucking in hot engine compartment air. He reported that this
did not add any horsepower gains. But with my kit you suck in cooler air from outside the vehicle
and that in turn may produce a slight horsepower gain. I can probably say with certainty that it
will not decrease horse power like the kits on the market today that are in the engine compartment
and draw in hot air.
What my kit consists of:
The most important piece is the fiberglass adapter. This adapter can be installed without
drilling any holes. It has 2 special clamps that grasp the lip in the inside of the opening
just under the air intake grill. To install this kit you will remove the inner wheel well.
You will unbolt and remove the stock air tube. The new fiberglass piece then just attaches to
the side panel with the two special clips and two screws. You then install the supplied flex air
tube and the short piece of tube into the stock air cleaner elbow just below the air cleaner and
tighten the 2 hole clamps. Reinstall the grill and the inner wheel well and you are all done.
Once installed it is not visible from the outside of the car.
What you gain:
A true free flow cold air intake. Once installed you will hear a very cool sound from the intake
on the V-6. L4's may not produce as much of this sound as the sound has farther to go.
Fits all year Fieros. 84-88 L4 and V-6.
