cold air intake for 5s-fe

danny_boy · 06-05-2007, 07:13 PM

has anybody ever found a smog-legal cold air intake for a 5s-fe?? i have a 91 with the 2.2l 5s-fe and i need an intake thats carb approved. any suggestions?

PETC · 06-05-2007, 07:20 PM

I'm not sure why an intake would need to be CARB approved unless it changed the MAF or any other intake sensing/fuel regulating equiptment... which intakes don't.

I have one for sale with an HKS filter that has a port for the intake air temperature sensor (the only sensor on the intake until the throtle body)

TomsMR2 · 06-05-2007, 07:28 PM

^ the airbox contains the air temp sensor. since an intake relocates that, it needs carb approval. you really cant change anything, legally, on a 5sfe.

theres no carb legal intakes, and theres a 99.9% chance there never will be.

rousegk7 · 06-07-2007, 04:52 PM

What non CARB legal ones are out there... the only one i have seen is the ARC box which is like 650$.

CyFi · 06-07-2007, 07:11 PM

not sure but i do know its a lot easier to buy a cheap one and just swap the other out for when you have to smog. Doesnt take more than 20 mins. Even then a cold air intake doesnt do much benifit because our stock airbox picks up air from the side vent and you cant get much colder tha that. A good air filter in the box is good, But if you want it for the sound get a cheap ebay one and swap it once a year

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06-05-2007, 07:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
PETC √(176400) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bellingham, WA Posts: 2,690 Thanks: 43 Thanked 65 Times in 53 Posts My Google Map iTrader Rating: (4/100% )	I'm not sure why an intake would need to be CARB approved unless it changed the MAF or any other intake sensing/fuel regulating equiptment... which intakes don't. I have one for sale with an HKS filter that has a port for the intake air temperature sensor (the only sensor on the intake until the throtle body)

06-05-2007, 07:28 PM	#3 (permalink)
TomsMR2 Still not heraldo. Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Pineapple under the sea Posts: 4,911 Thanks: 18 Thanked 406 Times in 303 Posts Blog Entries: 1 iTrader Rating: (4/100% )	^ the airbox contains the air temp sensor. since an intake relocates that, it needs carb approval. you really cant change anything, legally, on a 5sfe. theres no carb legal intakes, and theres a 99.9% chance there never will be.

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rousegk7 Cage Fighter Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 392 Thanks: 19 Thanked 11 Times in 10 Posts iTrader Rating: (8/100% )	What non CARB legal ones are out there... the only one i have seen is the ARC box which is like 650$.

06-07-2007, 07:11 PM	#5 (permalink)
CyFi Moved on Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Phoenix Posts: 1,401 Thanks: 12 Thanked 38 Times in 35 Posts iTrader Rating: (11/100% )	not sure but i do know its a lot easier to buy a cheap one and just swap the other out for when you have to smog. Doesnt take more than 20 mins. Even then a cold air intake doesnt do much benifit because our stock airbox picks up air from the side vent and you cant get much colder tha that. A good air filter in the box is good, But if you want it for the sound get a cheap ebay one and swap it once a year