Intakes...which one?

Hey, well I have searched the site, and I have not found any threads regarding my question, which is surprising. Most likely I am dumb and couldnt search right, but here goes.

I most likely am going to buy a short ram intake rather than a CIA, for money reasons mostly. I know that you will all tell me to go to home depot, and bend some pipe. I am very un(in?)experienced with all this, so that is not gonna happen, sorry.

To everyone's experience, which ram intake should I go after, ie. AEM, HKS, or whoever makes an intake, thanks for your help in advance.

Buy a crappy eBay short ram and go to NAPA or O'Reilly's or something and order a K&N filter for $20. Cheapest way to get one and the K&N filters kick ass.

Don't spend too much on an intake. Listen to --- and get one of those eBay cheap ones then get a good filter.

If you buy AEM, injen or whatever you are paying too much for little difference. Unless you are worried about smog and stuff you will be fine. AEM, injen are all CARB.

the ebay ones for 20 bucks? lol, with the shipping just as much as they cost lol, umm, the piping strength should be sufficient?
Will they heat too fast or is that just something the other companies made up?
Is it all about the filter basically?
And finally how will they sound compared to the AEM, Injen etc. Ill get a link to what im talking about.

PS. Thanks for the quick replies as well.

EDIT: Cheapo Intake (http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=38634&item=7967835357&rd=1)

wow,you searched and could not find this subject huh?,dude i think we have seen 1 million of these at least ok aside me being an ass,just get a cheap intake like they said cool bye

well if you want more low rpm gain (very minimal) get a short ram and for higher rpm (still very minimal performance increase) get a cold air intake. I bought a short ram of of ebay for 30 bucks with shipping. works fine bu make sure you know what your doing with the MAF

Maf?

MAF... it is the wires that go to the plug in the intake tube going to your throttle body... I believe it measures intake air temp for your idle speed... cold/warm idle....

Get the cheapest pipe that fits. There is no such thing as pipe strength or heat to worry about.

Thanks for the input guys, too bad I have no idea what to do with the MAF, so it looks like Ill be paying for installation.

If you plan on installing anything in your life, don't pay for an intake installation. You need an intake pipe and a filter kit. The kit part is the adapter to the stock MAS. I got the ExtremePSI kit.

I agree... it is only here on the forums that I realized "a pipe is a PIPE". lol. Not a long time ago, in a galaxy not so far, far away, I used to think that a $250 Injen pipe with pretty colors and stickers was actually "better" (whatever "better" meant back in the day to me) than a POS Home Depot pipe.

As far as filters go, there are varying qualities in the market: my friend had a 240sx with a very fugly, cheapo foamy type filter, and well, lets just say the foam "disintegrated" within 2 months and that thing was clogged to insanity with gunk...I personally like K&N.

And as for the installation, the first thing I ever installed was, as joeW says for a first DIY, an intake. It was easier than I had ever anticipated, and it gave me oodles of confidence, with which I later went on to install an MBC, boost guage, and a big fat FMIC, all by myself. (none of which would have been possible without repetitive abuse of the search button, and constant nagging of regulars on this forum. So yeah, try it yourself, at least once!:2cents:

get something like this http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7967765450&category=38634

and buy a real K&N filter

Thanks for the input guys, too bad I have no idea what to do with the MAF, so it looks like Ill be paying for installation.

The MAF is the thing between your filter box and the black, plastic pipe that leads to your turbo. Looking down at it, it's sqarish, and may have something writen on it. Removing the filter box is easy. There are four 10mm nuts. Use a wrench. Buying one would still be cheaper than paying someone, and you have a part left over to use on another job. After you take the nuts off, slide the filter box off. The black, rubber pipe to the turbo is loosened with a phillips screwdriver. Lefty loosey :) Now the rubber pipe is connected to the sqarish box with four more 10mm nuts. Remove them. You're done. Drink a beer, throw a wrench, say fuck, welcome to the dsm club :)

I dont know f its just in 1G but there is a mass airflow sensor in the intake. I had to buy a special intake to fit that bmf in the intake.

you could get creative and build a cheap heat block off for your $30 ebay intake. to help intake temps.

I dont know if you saw it, but I have a GS, so no turbo hooptie. What about me, will it be similiar on a GS to what you described.

I dont know if you saw it, but I have a GS, so no turbo hooptie. What about me, will it be similiar on a GS to what you described.

Damn me and my non turbo reading. As other posters here said, it's the easiest part change on the car. My writeup doesn't apply, but I'd be impressed if you couldn't do it yourself.

I live in Ithaca, and my gf grew up in Chenango County, if you want a hand I could meet up with you. I'm new to NY but I think I'm close to you :)