Spectre Intake
 

So, looking around the forum i found some good ideas for a DIY Intake. Actually i wanted the typhoon K&N Intake, but $250 for that i think it was too much, so i went with the DIY road. Tell me what you think.

P.S.
Right now I'm monitoring my MPG to see if it was any worth the change. BTW it only cost $30.

The final product!!
 

So here is the final product of my car. After a lil more than 4 month this is how my car looks right now with the help of all of you guys, still need to work on a couple of minor details, but i think i won't do anything big for a while now. So let me know what you guys think.....am i worthy of been in the calendar...lol :b just kidding.

looks good man. i didnt think i would like the accents but they really did come through.

needs moar low tho ;p

DIY intake
 

So, following the instructions from one of the users in this forum i did this little number DIY intake. it was fairly easy. Just follow the instructions in this link: http://www.scionxdforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=906

I dont know how to reset the MPG clock thou it went craxy. It went all the way down to 9MPG on saturday. I barely used my car on the weekend so today Monday its on 24 MPG and going up lil by lil. The same happend when i only change the air filter, it took up to 4 days to reach the expected MPG. I dont know if this is a usual behavior. Let me know.

looks good! looks almost exactly like mine. lol. i cant help ya with the mpg issue though. after i did my intake, i didnt have any issues with my mpg gauge. if anything mine went up. i was averaging around 32 before and now im getting around 34

So, quick question. I want an exhaust pipe, that gives me a nice sound (not too lound, im not aiming for that), gives me a nice hp boost, but it doesn't break my pocket like the TRD one would (it cost almost $400). Any suggestions?

like ive said before.....cut your muffler off and run straight pipe out the back to whatever tip you want to use. hella cheap and sounds really good considering we have a built in resonator.

i was going to put a magnaflow muffler on my car...we test fitted it and no muffler at all sounded a lot better! about the same loudness but it didnt have the high pitch like the muffler did. saved me almost $200.

I'm selling my trd one but I'm such a procrastinator on slapping that thing off lol.. Straight pipe is way to loud lol

Are you still selling it? For how much?

Loosing MPG after DIY intake
 

So...i need your advise. LIke i mention i installed the DIY intake following the exact instruction, but i notice that instead of gaining MPG im loosing. Yes, the car feels it has more torque (or force, im new at this lol), but i thought that with that i was suppose to gain MPG. So instead of gaing 2 points like some mention, im loosing 2 instead. I'll post new pics i took just now to see if you guys notice something different i made or i should have made. Thanks for the help.

^only thing i can think of, looking at the pics, is youre getting happy with the skinny pedal. especially since its just 2mpg. a lot of times, people will do something like this and go WOT a lot more than before, thus they lose a little, even though they expect gains in mpg. its nothing against you. i had the same issue when i put my injen in lol.

Sorry for asking, but "WOT"?

wide open throttle.

So, some things happened to me today. First i got into a huge traffic today (I mean "War of the Worlds" traffic). So trying to avoid it, i got into a huge hole on the road (I can still taste the asphalt on my tongue) and made some damage on my painted rims. Second, i got my EZ-LIP, not quite what i was expecting. The tape didn't apply all the way to the end of the bumper (from right to left) so i had to made some adjustment to it. It looks nice thou, but i need second opinions. I'll post pics of everything.

Does anyone knows how to remove the front black grill that is between the hood and the bumber?

I did this lil number on my car this weekend. I think (and i pretty sure this is the same thing a told my wife like 4 mods ago) this is the last mod im doing on the outside for a while now. I'm gonna focus on the interior now. Let me know what you think about the car.

Looks good!