Haha thats awesome, i was thinking the same thing about the cone too, looks like we differed a little bit though because i ended up cutting some of the metal off the tubing to shorten it....and also cut the rubber tubing at the bend to get rid of some of the ribs on it (cant tell if you did that)


You havnt by chance had an issue with it moving and hitting the throttle have you?

 

i did cut the stock rubber tubing ha i didnt cut the metal though and it does move around but im working on putting something under it to secure it there with a ziptie or something but it never hits the throttle though

 

Well the only thing i suggest is getting is snugged down somehow.....mine went a longgg time before finally catching on that cable....thats whats nice about the hacked up air box, stablized it as well as doubled for the shield...i think i may cut a little more on it though so the filter can tuck down a little further lol

 

thanks for the heads up

 

i love solid works... did u end up getting the pipe bent

 

take a strip of mettal and attach it to the end of your cai and then attach it to inside your engine bay. my thought would be to rotate that clamp on end near the filter and attach there and then find a mounting point.

 

3" exhaust pipe, 1" wide 1/8" steel 18" long or so , 1/2" heater hose fitting,a couple of small bolts and nuts and some quick set JB Weld.



I want to make some short of heat sheild out of some of those white plastic cutting boards

 

no i did not. i ended up putting a radio and speakers in a 96 ZJ for a friend. and that burned up my whole afternoon. i am going to call and get a quote tomorrow.... after i drop my head off to be pressure checked. i hope it is not cracked......

 

I used one section of intake tube from pep boys at a slight bend. And I drilled and tapped it for the factory lines going to the airbox. Used a Discount Auto Parts Spectre filter. Maybe 40-50 bucks into it. I used the factory airbox to support it, but I wanna make a fully enclosed and insulated box for it down the road to make it truly cold air induction...

 

I just did mine for under $30 today all i did was stop by my buddies exhaust shop and picked up a 6inch long peice of 3inch exhaust and used my stock air hose i also went down to my local Autozone and picked up a cheap cone filter and hooked it all up ill post pics tomm. it deff. helped my Jeep breathe alot better......

 

So where are all the cold air intakes? I see a bunch of warm/hot air intakes. If you want a real cold air intake, route it out with a snorkel

Those are some nice setups though. You guys may have convinced me to spend some more dollars and mess with my intake.

 

You make a good point. I plan on building a new airbox out of an insulated material and maybe use some kind of heatshield over it to help keep the heat out. I would then widen the intake duct behind the headlight to allow for more airflow, as well as add a small airflow director behind the grill to "scoop" air towards the opening behind the headlight. This would be great on the street but would obviously suck off road. I'm sure it would scoop up all kinds of dust. So I was thinking of building the box so that it can be sealed at the duct behind the headlight for off road use and possible run another intake duct to the cowl area for off road use. I even did a crappy paint drawing of my idea, minus the cowl portion...



I'm prettty sure the one I would build would be a bit less complicated, or cartoonish looking lol. I'm just tired of my XJ having to breath in that overly hot engine bay. I'm sure it would appreciate the breath of fresh air too...

 

I actually re-did my intake yesterday i went back to my stock airbox but kept the cone filter i will post some pics later

 

You could route it into the cowl area where it will draw in fresh cool air. It's been done but i cannot find the write-up.

 

Belto made a write-up in the tech section i believe