CAI on an automatic??....you say it cant be done??(56kdeth?)

[PlastikAvenger]

welp...got a CP CAI for my b-day 3 days after xmas....my dad didnt realize it wont work on an auto....

so we made it work....

you can see that instead of going past the crossmember on the engine side...we routed it over to the cooling fan side..you can see where we extended the braket to the battery tray as well




this is where it comes down




this is looking straight up at it



this is the passenger side of the splash shield(what its suppsed to look like)



and this is how much i had to cut away



and this is pretty much where it gets fresh air from...you can barely see the filter in the second shot








after we cut away enuf stuff to make room i made a sheild so its basicly protected from the spray from the wheel...

so yeah....fun with intakes

*EDIT*....it should be of note that i have a 95 and newer style frame cradle..radiator...and cooling fan....and yes it makes a difference...if it wasnt for that it probly wouldnt have worked

[saturnspeed_12]

its already been done. should have picked up one for a 420a eclipse.

[PlastikAvenger]

yeah but i made it wrk with a legit saturn one...lol...and there was n hacking or cutting...so on the off chance i get a stick....it will be a direct transfer

[Anonymous]

nice job

[OakDog]

IIrC the ones from Dr. Speeedy on ebay are a direct fit with an auto, although I could be off on that

[PlastikAvenger]

not sure...yeah this was an ebay special

[Plastic Fury]

Looks pretty good man.

That would make me nervous down here with the amount of rain we get lol.

[PlastikAvenger]

trust me it does.....im gonna get a bypass valve when i get more cash and make a better sheild for it

[TwiztidSC-2]

I've heard it's been done before but never seen it, looks good man

[The Shaolin]

That's where I ran mine....

but mine is 3" 0.0

[Brandon94sc2]

Good job on thinking outside the box!

[Jeremy]

ofn, I put the eclipse intake on my car when it was auto like 4 years ago.

but yeah, even the aem can be tweaked to fit too,.

[ProjectSW1]

Looks pretty good man.

That would make me nervous down here with the amount of rain we get lol.

Yeah tell me about it... I hydrolocked a 4 month old twin cam in Port Richey...

[Plastic Fury]

Looks pretty good man.

That would make me nervous down here with the amount of rain we get lol.

Yeah tell me about it... I hydrolocked a 4 month old twin cam in Port Richey...

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That definately sucked Brian lol. I sold a customer a 2004 IQC (brand new) that had some mods to it including sprint springs and an AEM CAI. When I sold the car I told the guy to get a bypass valve and avoid water.

Two weeks later I get a call on a sunday after he tried to go through a "puddle" wich as you know in FLorida can be a lake lol. Hydrolocked a two week old Ecotec 2.2. When the tech pulled the head he called me back to see it. Lots o' water and three pistons up and one down and Saturn was not coverin shit lol. Good thing he had a good insurance company.

[sl1budgettuner]

I've seen a guy make his own CAI for his automatic with piping from summit or something. It was routed pretty similarly to the AEM one too.