Hello,
Well it's finally done! I have posted a couple of times about cheaping out a short ram on Ebay, and definately "paying" for it. Well I payed $27 for a short ram from Thailand on Ebay, and attempted to make it work for my car. IT WAS CRAP! First off, I'm an IDIOT about doing things technical to my car. I can't change my own oil, I'm that pathetic. Well I got the Ebay intake, (from now on refered to as the "crap-take"), and had a friend from work that was more familiar with cars, help me put it on.
Well, the crap-take tube was a very long (aluminum?) metal tube that looked like you could have started it out at the passenger side window and still go the width of the car. Anyway, the rubber fittings had NO give to them to fit over the throttle body, or of the MAS. I pulled, prodded, and jerked on it for 15 minutes, trying to make it fit over the MAS. The rubber felt like it had been sitting on a boat from China for 6 weeks, solidifying into a hockey puck. (It probably was just that).
It was through the strength of Krypton, able to get it over the MAS, and long (aluminum?, chewing gum foil?) tube. The fittings for the elbow did not fit over the pipe, but inside! No clamp would go on it, wierd! Any way, there we were down to putting the brace that was (supossedly) to be connected to some magic bolt in engine and brace the MAS up. Well low and behold, the crap-take was designed fit some car in Yugoslavia, and not my dear little black SE. So, we could not use the strip of metal they called the brace. Oh by the way, did I mention there was NO INSTRUCTIONS. I improvised by using myfordfocus.com's instructions about installing another company's short ram, we all know who's that is.
Now we are down to the "best" part. I had the guy that was helping me fashion a bracket out of a metal shelving unit. Through alot of bending an prodding, he did a pretty good job. Now we get to the sweetest pain in the ass of the whole thing, the cone filter, WAS TOO SMALL!. Can you believe that?! I spent a whole $27 on Ebay, and I just couldn't get a cone that fit....wonder if the cone that was meant for me was in Yugoslavia...damn slavs.
Any way, I buzzed down to Pep Boys and bought a APC cone that did fit, but it too needs LOTS of muscles to get it on too...must have had it's share of "Chinese Boat Rubber" too.
Well, I drove with the intake for about a month, remember I'm an IDIOT about cars. I think I imagined that I was feeling some sort of pep from the engine. I thought, "Pain in the ass installation, but mission accomplished..." Till I mentioned that through a thread on this site.
Everyone was telling me to buck down and get a decent short ram....well, I sure as hell did like what I had to go through to get this one on, but by the looks of what was under my hood now, I was afraid of blowing up the engine with the crap-take. I knew it wasn't the right intake, but thought I could just cheap it out.....then along came Steeda...HOORAY STEEDA!
Well it's finally done! I have posted a couple of times about cheaping out a short ram on Ebay, and definately "paying" for it. Well I payed $27 for a short ram from Thailand on Ebay, and attempted to make it work for my car. IT WAS CRAP! First off, I'm an IDIOT about doing things technical to my car. I can't change my own oil, I'm that pathetic. Well I got the Ebay intake, (from now on refered to as the "crap-take"), and had a friend from work that was more familiar with cars, help me put it on.
Well, the crap-take tube was a very long (aluminum?) metal tube that looked like you could have started it out at the passenger side window and still go the width of the car. Anyway, the rubber fittings had NO give to them to fit over the throttle body, or of the MAS. I pulled, prodded, and jerked on it for 15 minutes, trying to make it fit over the MAS. The rubber felt like it had been sitting on a boat from China for 6 weeks, solidifying into a hockey puck. (It probably was just that).
It was through the strength of Krypton, able to get it over the MAS, and long (aluminum?, chewing gum foil?) tube. The fittings for the elbow did not fit over the pipe, but inside! No clamp would go on it, wierd! Any way, there we were down to putting the brace that was (supossedly) to be connected to some magic bolt in engine and brace the MAS up. Well low and behold, the crap-take was designed fit some car in Yugoslavia, and not my dear little black SE. So, we could not use the strip of metal they called the brace. Oh by the way, did I mention there was NO INSTRUCTIONS. I improvised by using myfordfocus.com's instructions about installing another company's short ram, we all know who's that is.
Now we are down to the "best" part. I had the guy that was helping me fashion a bracket out of a metal shelving unit. Through alot of bending an prodding, he did a pretty good job. Now we get to the sweetest pain in the ass of the whole thing, the cone filter, WAS TOO SMALL!. Can you believe that?! I spent a whole $27 on Ebay, and I just couldn't get a cone that fit....wonder if the cone that was meant for me was in Yugoslavia...damn slavs.
Any way, I buzzed down to Pep Boys and bought a APC cone that did fit, but it too needs LOTS of muscles to get it on too...must have had it's share of "Chinese Boat Rubber" too.
Well, I drove with the intake for about a month, remember I'm an IDIOT about cars. I think I imagined that I was feeling some sort of pep from the engine. I thought, "Pain in the ass installation, but mission accomplished..." Till I mentioned that through a thread on this site.
Everyone was telling me to buck down and get a decent short ram....well, I sure as hell did like what I had to go through to get this one on, but by the looks of what was under my hood now, I was afraid of blowing up the engine with the crap-take. I knew it wasn't the right intake, but thought I could just cheap it out.....then along came Steeda...HOORAY STEEDA!
