Okay no flaming or laughing if you can help it. Bought the JWT Popcharger from another member but they did not have the heat shield or bracket. So whats a cheap guy like me to do.............make one. Saw a link on google about a guy using a rubbermade garbage can and it looked good, so I started looking around.
Well I found a $1.75 black 12 quart bucket and made it work. I think it came out pretty good and it does what its suppose to do.

Oh okay you can laugh.

 

it looks good i would never thing of that ive been making a custom box for a friends 03 monte carlo ss with fiberglass and bondo i might scrape it for this

 

Looks GREAT(nice job)

 

Not bad, OP. Good to see folks trying something different. Do you think it's going to hold up to the engine temps?

 

awesome diy

 

Put it to some stop/go city driving to see if there is any wear/melting action!

 

reminds me of the custom cold air intake I made for my accord in highschool. lol I didn't have any sort of grinder so I had to use my concrete driveway to sand down the metal tubing after I cut it with a hacksaw. ahhh, good times.

 

i figure it was cheap enough if it does not work out, I will get some sheet metal and make another. Thank God Springfield is small enough there is not alot of stop and go traffic, but it does get pretty hot in the summer. Time will tell.

 

I'd love to know how it holds up, OP. I'm doing something similar for my brake ducting up front, but mine won't be in an area with quite that much heat. If yours holds up, I may copy your design.

 

The only thing i would do is extend the top up higher to the hood. If you look at the JWT set up , it does that to get a better seal.

 

Nice job.

If you want to seal it to the hood take your camera phone and a flash light, turn on the camera in video mode and set it in the engine bay. Slowly lower the hood and then watch the vid to see where you need to add material.

 

what a great thread.

I tell people all the time, with a little elbow grease and the inventive spirit, you can easily make all sorts of things yoursself.

I actually learned to knit and now make my own underwear.

jk.... or am i.

 

Looks good Bill, glad you got it all put together, honestly looks better then the original setup. If the heat shield holds up I might do the same thing to mine.

 

Thanks again everybody. Oh and bmccann101 I need a large and will take 14 that way I don't have to wash them but twice a month.

 

Dude, until you get married or have a live in girlfriend - you can get at least a whole month out of them if you follow this schedule:

1) Wear normal
2) Spin them around and wear backwards
3) Turn them inside out
4) Wear them inside out and backwards
5) Rinse and Repeat

 

I am married, so that won't work.

I asked her to sew up a hole in them and she said Hell No. Can you believe it, something about me being a tight *** and buy new ones.

 

I'm pleasantly surprised.


A lot of people would be very surprised if they took a stroll through the paddock during a grassroots track event. I've seen home depot lips, wood splitters, and other "ghetto" mods in use at the track on some cars that were consistently fast.

 

I think that racing competitively (without sponsors) and keeping a car pretty are usually at odds with each other, aren't they? If I'm going to tear stuff up eventually at the track, why am I going to spend a bazillion dollars on a perfect paint match and authentic aero? I know that I'll get flamed by the anti-replica crowd for this, but it just doesn't make sense if you can get the same advantage from a homemade splitter that you can replace every track session, or a replica bumper so that your gut doesn't drop when you hit a cone.

 

Can anyone tell me if a heat shield is really necessary for an aftermarket intake? I ask because I don't have a heat shield with my setup.

 

if you demand more power from the intake then yes a heat shield would be something to look into. For everyday DD purposes not having a heat shield doesn't do any more harm than having one...