I've been interested in a warm air intake from the start as living in the Great White North is hard on machinery as well as people.
I started with the dryer duct buckshee install and have been following Top Fuel's 1.0 & 2.0 version of his WAI so thought I would try one of my own.
The reason it took so long is that I had to wait for a Kenny's U-Pull to have a scrap Mirage handy to me as I didn't want to hack up the stock air box and find I didn't like it, or worse.....
So with a sacrificial airbox in hand I drilled a 1-7/8" hole in the back of it.
Next I ground the hole out to 2"
A 2" hole saw would have been too "sloppy" as I wanted the tube to have a friction/sliding fit....
Then I took some plumber's abs glue and some abs dust and glued the 2" ABS tube which I got on Amazon to the air box..
The plastic of the air box isn't ABS so it didn't fuse to the tube as well as desired but that's what JB Weld is for, right?
I bought a 2" silicone elbow from Jegs and fitted it to the airbox...the final install has a 6" black nylon zip tie for a hose clamp.
Next the 2' aluminum tube, cut to 6"
It went in nicely, I'll add a silicone rubber sleeve tomorrow to keep the heat in.
I did have to trim the (resonator?)tube inside by 2", engine still runs fine like this....
Time for supper!