OK, here is the deal... Because I was ripped when I bought the car, I don't have a lot of money left at the end of the month. So I have to use some of my redneck talents to over come these obstacles without much money. Here are a few items I have created.......
| This was a very basic set up. It cost less than $15. Basically all I did was take off the stock air scoop and clap a 3-inch fixable aluminum pipe to where the scoop mounted into the air box. |  |
| From the air box I bent the pipe strait down and bent it again toward the front bumper. I then bought a 4" to 3" reducer and mounted it to the aluminum pipe and bolted the reducer just below the bottom of the front bumper. The reducer acts like an air scoop to channel cool air into the air box. I did break down and buy a K&N drop in so I could take advantage of the extra air supply. | |
| I found that the RS/GS models
have a huge resonator box on the bottom of the air box. After taking the resonator box off
I discovered that there is 2nd tit on the air box where I could duct more air into the
box. I bought another aluminum pipe and clamped it onto where the resonator box attached
to the air box and then ran the pipe strait down to where the hole in the driver side
splash guard is. It just makes another way to get cool air into the air box. Over all I do
feel a difference in the power, especial on cool, crisp, nights. |
| A nice performance feature that the 4 cylinder models did not come with was a strut tower brace. So instead of paying well over a hundred bucks for one I figure I would redneck a better one together. It’s made out of �” thick by 3 �” wide bar. Weight was not a really big issue with me, just the solid feel. It end up weighing 10lbs…. | |
| I noticed that the HKS GS project car only caught 2 of the 3 strut bolts on each side. So I though that maybe getting all 3 bolts on each side tided together would produce greater results. Immediately after I put the brace on the car felt like an Indy car. This project did not cost me anything but $3 for paint!! |