I had problems takin off the bumper so I decided to just make the intake a short ram for now. I was just wondering if it was worth the trouble of taking off the bumper to put the last section on? Plus you have to take off the bumper every once in a while to clean the filter. Is it worth all the trouble or well the short ram do just fine?

 

yes it makes a difference....you want to be pulling in "cold" air not "hot" engine bay air....your just defeating the purpose of that intake system by not utilizing the rest of it.

you might want to consider selling the injen intake and getting a pop charger

 

The bumper really doesn't take all THAT long to take off. I think me & my buddy did it in about 10-15 to take off, another 15-20 to put back on... What problem exactly did you have taking it off?

Additionally, the Injen kit is designed as a Cold Air Intake, I'm not sure if you're getting the full gains out of the system w/o mounting the filter @ the front.

Good luck!

 

i think you should remove the bumper and install the the cold air system.

 

It's not necessary to remove the bumper if you don't want to. I had no problem lining up and installing the filter and adapters with the bumper still in place. It took more time, and you have to be a little savvy when it comes to setting the clamps up correctly but it's not an impossible feat.

Seriously though, if you just set the injen up as short ram, you would have been better off with the JWT popcharger. You're probably either not making any power at all, or maybe even losing power with the current setup.

 

I cant take the bumper off by the head light and the fender, I cant see whats holding it on right there.

 

You need to take the plastic wheel well piece to be able to take off the front bumper--if that's what you want to do.

I also did my intake install without taking the bumper completely off.

 

You can setup the injen CAI without removing the bumper if you remove all the screws holding the front side of the splash guard (under the car) up. You get to the point where the splash guard is held on at the rear, but lying on the floor in the front.

The top of the bumper you can leave in place, but it helps to pull the clips out to get some flexibility in getting the duct out from in front of the airbox. That's the hardest part. Bend it a bit, flex.. it will come out (its not the bumper in the way, but the support bracket behind the bumper).

To get the splash guard box behind the grill out of the way, pop the clips from the front of the bumper using a long flat screwdriver, then reach in from under the car to pull the assembly out.

Once you've done those things, you can feed the long silicon hose in from the top. Lay it left to right, then work the tip in, then keep working it down and rotate into final position as you go. Once the silicon hose is in place, you can loosly attach it to the MAF assembly to get an idea of placement.

Then, attach the short tube to the filter head and tighten the clamp holding the filter to the tube. Pay attention to where the clamp is so later when its in the car, you can remove the clamp without moving it.

Then, make sure your clamp is on the long silicon hose in the car and loose.. lay on the ground, and get the filter+tube behind the bumper by coming in front the front under the car. Attach tube to silicon hose (don't tighten clamp yet), and attach tube to front bumper brace with the plastic clip. It may even be easier to attach to bumper first, then line up the silicon hose.

Once attached the bumper, you can focus on the silicon hose and its clamp. This is where two people would make it easy, but its doable by yourself. I reached under the car to connet the hose and position the clamp, then reached with my other arm through the top of the bumper at the trunk release to get my screwdriver in and tighten the clamp. Have to keep holding from the bottom of the car to hold the screwdriver in place on the clamp.

Go back and tighten the other clamps you left loose for lining things up.

I installed the injen by myself without taking the bumper off or without a friend. Would definatly have been easier with a friend tho at the last step.

BTW, all the 'how tos' on the forums are out of date to the current injen design.

 

I have installed the INJEN intake, but can't find the plastic clip to mount the aluminum piece to that holds the filter. Anyone have pictures? I bought the intake from a forum guy here without instructions. Installed everything ok without taking the bumper off, but have the filter mount "rigged", but I hear it rattle....I didn't mount it to the plastic clip that everyone mentions. I will be installing my S-Tune today, so I want to fix the problem today while I am working on the car.