Yea I have an SRT6 so not much waste

 

I'd say I'm jealous .. but my wife likes mine, and I'm thinking talking her into a SRT6 roadster here in the next few months won't be a real problem And we know what happens to prices on drop tops about then.. LOL.

 

The 3" splitter I used for a custom DIA is from a Cummings diesel in a dodge 2500 ram pickup originally and it works great!

 

here is a picture

 

Looks nicer than mine!

 

Can you come up with a part number for that piece?

 

My suggestion would be to go to Car-Part.com--Used Auto Parts Market and look up parts for the truck.
It may not list the particular part, but you can pick something that IS listed, and get a list of phone numbers to call and ask ......

 

I'll stick to my homemade single intake which costs about $150 and has given me great results.

 

SHE'S ALL DONE FOLKS... CUSTOM DUAL CAI.

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I did have to grind the pipes inside the T splitter. This is what they looked like BEFORE I cut them.

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Now, they are completely opened up. Just took a sharpie, outlined what needed to be cut and used a dewalt grinder. SHE'S BEAST!!! I CAN FEEL THE POWER!! I CAN HEAR THE SUPERCHARGER SCREAM!!!

IT ONLY COST ME ABOUT 160$!!!!!

WHAT NOW????

 

Oh, I also got a little Spectre filter and attached it to the vaccuum that was previously connected directly into the airbox... I like it.

 

Looks nice...Can't wait to hear about your results at the track if you do go some time.

 

SHE'S ALL DONE FOLKS... CUSTOM DUAL CAI.

Nice Job Jiggityjosh! Your system looks great. One of the few DIY DCAI systems I've seen on an SRT6 because most can't come up with an appropriate "T" or "Y" intake piece. My only suggestion would be to continue running the intakes into the frontal grille area to better "grab" cooler air. What you have now is more of a "warm" air intake.

 

Looks good and the price is right!

Thanks for taking the time to list and document this.

 

X2. Do you have a way to monitor your IAT?

 

Actually I could... Last night we cut a hole in the drivers side intake and attached the vaccuum hose... Also reset the ecu by unplugging the battery and I noticed an even bigger boost. I will see if I can get ahold of something to throw in there while dynoing at full boost/ rpm's when I get the dyno....

Like I said in another post... I fabricated devil horns, cut out some of the stock plastic crap that goes in between the grill and the engine compartment. Those blow directly into the intake and i also cut out the top left and right fins of the grill... But only the little flaps in the back that point the air upwards in the grill, that way, the majority of the airflow vaccuums to there. With the car in park with the stock intake, you could feel the suction from the grill when revving. I also have cone air filters with weatherguards, that only allow air to come from those holes, but I will need to modify them so that they will fit. It definately is "cold air" intake because after beating the **** out of it last night, spent about a 1/4 tank of gas in what seemed like a quick drive :P i went home and opened the hood.

The filters were literally cold. Everything else though.. The aluminum pipes on the intake even were pretty damn hot... So that just goes to show that they are definately getting some air pass-through...

Also the sound of the suction is cool but the whine on the supercharger is just nothig short of amazing.

I live in a place where it rains one minute, sunburn the next, then it's a hailing blizzard a month later. Front mount filters are just not a viable option for me.

I took some video footage of me last night before we threw on the vaccuum attachment inside the intake. Before that I had a filter on the end of the hose. I don't know exactly what that hose does but I'm guessing it wants to know the temps or flow of my intake???

Either way. I will post some pics of my nifty devil horns set up, from multiple angles and the video's with sound showing my speed.

Currently I am completely stock outside of this intake, but I have paid for and am currently waiting for the remote tuning cable from eurocharged.

Thanks for all of the compliments guys. Let me know if anyone decides to get this done. I will be perfecting upon it and if it's better than needswings single cai at least, maybe I will start selling some prefabbed kits for people that might not have the money for more expensive options but still want that jet engine whine, very noticeable performance increase and cost effective savings!!!

We will see. All I know is, I HAVEN'T GRINNED LIKE THIS SINCE THE DAY I BOUGHT MY SRT-6!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Congratulations or your success and innovation !!!
BTW, just a suggestion, but a cheap way to monitor IAT's and many other parameters is the UltraGuage.
I have no affiliation with them, but I have had one for about a year now, and love it !

UltraGauge Automotive Information Center and OBDII Scan Tool

 

Also, i ordered too much stuff... All you need is x4 1 foot 45 angles, x2 1 foot angles, x10 3 inch clamps, x1 3 1/2 inch clamp, some small *** filters which I also got from siliconeintakes.com, x4 3 inch silicone couplers and the
Rubber "Tee".

Tools included a file and grinder to cut the pipes going into the tee, a sawzall to cut the pipes and a drill for the intake. A hammer to bang a bracket out of the way near the heat shield and a vice to hold ****.

Took like an hour for the intake and another hour to get the vaccuum installed right.

 

Some measurements I made in 2008:

How Max spent his Friday:

I finally got around to making some measurements. They are with the splash shield in place. The experiment conditions were:
29 Aug 2008
Ambient temp 92 deg F.
Relative humidity 61%
Cruising speed 75 MPH
Intakes used
(A) 2 K&N RC-4650 on 3" Aluminum tubes 30 deg bend. (clean)
(B) 2 K&N 33-2290 in stock configuration. (clean)
(C) Same as (B) but with 1/4" foil faced self-adhesive
foam insulation on bottom of stock air box and filter boxes.
IAT = Inlet Air Temp (Nitrod/OBD info)
OT = Outside air temp (Crossfire dash display)
ET = Engine Temp/Coolant (Nitrod/OBD info)
UHT = Underhood Temp (Fluke/Ktype thermocouple.Placed midway between radiator and front of engine)

I ran up and down the I85 for 15 miles before each test to normalize. The temps displayed were stable +- 3 degrees for 10 miles.

This cost me a day and 1/3 tank of gas. I hope you folks appreciate it!

I will try to post this in columns. (I guess cut-n-paste don't work?)

(A) (B) (C)
OT 92 92 92
IAT 134 108 106
UHT 134 137 144
ET 191 192 192

A couple of observations.
The faster you go, the lower the IAT's (duh).
The slower you go the higher the IAT's (duh).

After (B) and (C), I let the car idle for 10 minutes just to see how hot stuff gets.

(B) (C)
OT 92 94
IAT 140 131
UHT 189 188
ET 200 201

My uninformed conclusions.

Having the intakes/filters under the hood is a really bad idea. No matter how cool it looks.

If you want cool air to "launch" with, you had better keep the revs up to ~3000 for 15 seconds to cool off the intake/airbox. I saw this effect.

My cheap-*** insulation job seems to have some benefit.

If there is any interest, I'll take the bleedin' thing off again and snap a couple of shots.

I have no idea how the material I chose will hold up over time. We'll see.

I know you all think I'm a PITA, but at least I'm not a worthless PITA!

Comments?

 

And to add:

It seems that your setup is similar to (A) above.

With my true DCAI, my Intake Air Temperature is never higher than 12 degrees F above ambient, except while idling. I hate to say this to a person who obviously likes to do his own work and likes to sort things out, but, it doesn't matter how much cool air you "funnel" through those 2 oblong holes in the radiator support. 100 times as much goes through the radiator to be nicely heated for your use.

Please read the data above?

 

Well, it will work much better soon when I update it with a liquid cooled air setup. Maybe you just didn't put the filters in the right place or something. I can't be sure of any of that. All I see is a 160$ very noticeable power increase, a sick *** intake with a nice loud supercharger whine, did I mention it was 160$.

The filters were cool, my car was faster, it sounded like a raped ape and I got it for super cheap. I could just as easily extend the pipe through like the needswings setup with little to no extra effort, hell, maybe I will order those two extra parts and two extra filters for 50$ more. Leave them bitches in my trunk and swap out if it rains or some ****, on the fly...

Doesn't make that much difference honestly. I also have my intercooler separation kit installed, forgot about that...
But yea. We can talk semantics all day and all night but I know my **** is running tough and should I get a performance pulley, I will probably devise some sort of a front mount convection system with a weather guard, because I'm awesome like that. But for now. This **** is not only awesome but it's also awesomely inexpensive.

The only difference between this and needswings is some teflon spray, welding, sanding, polishing, an emblem, a couple more feet of pipe, a couple 3 to 2.5 inch reducers and a coupler. That's it. Nothing magical. I've see. A thousand different cars with intake and rarely do you see them front mounted. That's just Ludacris. Most of the airt goes outside the bottom of my car anyways. But I'm happy. That's all that matter. All I know is, I just switched to geico....