sewlow
Bitchin' Stitchin'
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I think I've spent more time dicking around trying to figure out a proper mount for the 'Hot Air' Ebay intake I had on my '97 than any other part under the hood. More than few attempts, from scratch, all over again, with mods to each & every design.
Stickshift + me. ("A redline a day keeps the carbon away!")
The engine moved around on those rubber mounts.
It came with a hokey 3/4" wide strip of tin with several 'adjustment' holes.
Duct strapping? Mmmm... Yea. Whadya expect for 40 bucks?
Free shipping, though! WooHoo.
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I tried just letting the filter sit on the inner fender.
Wrong. I could here the filter rattling at every stop light.
Tried hard mounting it to the inner fender. Various efforts.
The intake tubing would end up working themselves out & come apart at the joins, no matter how tight the clamps.
Which got me to thinking about those engine mounts.
So, they're good, but the trans mount needs replacing.
Wasn't a cure.
Eventually, I ended up making something like this, but with the lower legs slotted at those screws so as to let the cleaner move with the engine.
Even that took some tweaking.
I'd slotted the holes too long so that when the engine was idling the cleaner sat too low to the fender & would rattle.
Fixed that with a strip of 1/16" sticky-one-side foam insulation on the fender.
Ditto with the hood. Under acceleration, the cleaner would just touch it. Actually wore the paint away. A strip of foam under the hood.
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All of this for a nice purdy color-matched performance detriment.
Shaking my head sounds like a damn maraca.
I'd sold the OEM for cheap. Probably to someone that had probably gone through all this B.S. before & had actually figured out that just because something's shiny...
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