(dog barks)
- Oh my God, the wrinkles.
(dog growls)
Dang, that's what we gotta get the car to sound like
at the end of all this.
You can buy a nice aftermarket air intake system
for pretty much any car.
They make your engine bay look cooler,
make your engine sound a little bit better,
and heck, they'll often buy you a few horsepower.
But, they also cost a lot of money.
Often more than $200.
What if you don't have all that money?
I mean, intakes are pretty simple.
You just gotta get air into the engine.
Pretty much just some tubing...
So...
I bought, I went to Home Depot.
We're gonna make an intake
out of plumbing components from the hardware store.
Let's be honest for a minute.
This is a little bit ridiculous.
But, the boys who helped me make this show
really wanna see me make an intake out of poop pipes.
So that's what we're gonna do today.
What's the worst that can happen?
(engine revs) (man cheers)
Should I DIY,
or should I Don't.
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- Okay, so first off,
we've got this piece of three-inch pipe.
Plumbing stuff, things are a little different.
The three inch is actually measured off the ID.
So this is actually about three and a half inches,
which makes things a little tricky.
Not like your normal car stuff.
Then I've got these three-inch couplers,
which again, are really three and a half inch couplers.
We've got this cone filter.
I spent about 30 bucks on this.
That's the most automotive part of this whole thing I'd say.
Two options for 90-degree elbows.
We'll choose whichever one works better.
And then I can return the other for even greater savings.
Then we've got some sweet bracing for, you know,
holding the thing in place.
Ooh, I like it for real.
We've got some cement for... cementing...
For cementing, our bits together.
All the hardware store stuff was about 45 bucks.
The filter itself was about 30.
So we got about 75 bucks here.
Not too bad.
On Joey's car right now, we've got the TRD intake,
and it's obviously very nice.
This is like a traditional panel filter style air box.
So you got a big flat air filter in there.
They're great, they come on pretty much every car.
The filter's nice and protected from the elements.
What else is important is the placement of this intake.
You can see at the very front, it has a little snorkel.
That's going under the bumper
where there is a bunch of airflow.
The bumper's catching a bunch of air from the front,
and then that's getting routed up
and funneled into this air box.
So what we're gonna do
is basically just try to make a little 90 degree bend
and put our filter right here,
right where the air box is,
right in front of that snorkel
so that our filter will be catching
some of the air that's coming up through the bumper.
What we're really gonna get here hopefully is more noise.
So before we take anything off
we should start this thing up,
give it a few revs,
listen to how it sounds.
And then we can do the same at the end
and see if we've improved on the noise quality of this car.
All right Mario, fire this pig up.
(engine revs)
Yeah, it's a pretty quiet intake,
which you know, many normal people want.
But that ain't us.
So let's see if we can make this thing a little bit louder.
Okay, first thing I'm gonna do
is just pop out this mass air flow sensor,
get it out of the way.
For your engine to be able to use
all the air that you're getting into it,
it needs to know how much is there.
And that's where your mass air flow sensor comes into play.
It's very important, you have to have it.
But if I was trying to do this
as cheaply as humanly possible,
I would literally just cut this intake
and use the MAF housing
that's built into the factory intake.
But, this isn't my car.
This is Joey's car.
(engine revs)
So we're not gonna hack his up.
We do have this from an old intake that he had.
This is just a MAF housing
and we're gonna use it so that I don't have to hack his up.
We'll pull out this hose,
and then we can just take out the whole intake.
Yeah I mean, that's a nice intake.
We'd be fine leaving this alone.
Okay.
Piece one, done,
easy as that.
Now we need to get from this three-inch actual OD pipe
to this like three and a half inch hole.
You see how these filters have these different rings
that sort of allow it to be different sizes?
'Cause once you tighten the hose clamp down
all that gets sandwiched, and it's like one big piece.
Look at this.
Oh my God, the PlumbQuik baby.
Oh, hell yeah.
That's I mean, that's rock solid.
Can you say, "Hell yeah?"
God, I just love it when a plan comes together.
That's gonna fit in there, no problem.
So I need to make some cuts outta that straight piece.
And then that'll hang outta here
and give us room to make our bend.
To the saw.
This stuff is easy to work with.
Way easier than metal.
You might wondering why
everybody doesn't just make their intakes out of this.
And I mean, kind of sort of a lot of companies do.
But the plastics that are usually used
on intakes and in your engine bay are
a little bit better designed to withstand heat.
This stuff from the hardware store
is only good for up to 180 degrees.
And engine bays can definitely get to 200, 225 and beyond.
So, we'll see how this holds up.
It is very easy to work with,
but, it's not quite the right stuff for the job
if we're being honest.
We're gonna clean this out real nice.
I've got my deburring tool.
I wanna make sure we get all the scraps out of this thing
so that we're not sucking any
chunks of ABS through Joey's engine.
Okay, check this (whistles)
And now this.
(whistles) That looks pretty good, man.
Cool, where's my tape measure?
Okay, so I'm gonna want that to be about six inches.
Mark out our cut.
What the ****?
My pen doesn't need a jacket.
Why would I want this?
Whatever.
Okay, six inches, right?
Right.
Good enough for government work.
Hm, I think we're gonna trim this
a little shorter than what we've got it right now.
I don't want it to stick that far into the filter.
But definitely better to start long and trim her down,
than the other way around, so.
You know, we might be using poop pipe,
but that doesn't mean we want it to look like poop, right?
Okay, I think this is gonna be
the last piece of crap conduit
that we need to insert.
So we've placed our filter
such that it's catching all that cold air
coming through that snorkel.
G whiz, a little bit of planning,
some great execution, and this thing's coming together.
You know, when you think about it,
this pipe is living its best life.
It was doomed to carry dung.
And now, it's gonna be making power.
Now I need to glue together all the pipe pieces.
This is an all-purpose.
This works on PVC and ABS like this
and this will make a permanent juncture
of the pieces that we put it on.
We made a permanent juncture to the cap to the bottle.
Just a little bit like this kinda action.
And then one of these type of deals.
And you give that a little bit of time,
and that'll be one piece forever.
All right, now we can work on bracing this thing.
Basically mounting it to the chassis,
and I think it's gonna be pretty easy.
So I've got this thing.
This is for hanging poop pipe in,
you know, a building like up there.
The old anal aqueduct.
Okay, so we're gonna do a little bit of bending.
Not bad.
Now, we'll pull this off.
Cut the tail off,
put a hole down through these two layers and,
brace built, baby.
Voila.
Wow.
Oh hell yeah, brother.
That's an intake made out of the kaka canals...
We made a sick little hot snake intake.
But, the proof is really in the revving.
So let's hear this thing.
See what it sounds like.
Mario, hop in.
(engine revs)
Sounds a little throatier already.
All right, Mario, gimme some revs.
(engine revs)
Okay, that's enough.
She sounds rad.
I mean, you can really hear the engine deep breathing
to try to make some power and it's awesome.
Honestly, in my opinion,
there's nothing quite like really good induction sounds,
especially on a four cylinder.
One of the best ways to make 'em sound good in my opinion.
- Hey Zach, that sounded annoyingly good.
Like even from the other room.
- Thank you.
Are you gonna be able to handle the power?
- Let's find out.
(engine revs)
It sounds kinda cool.
- It's like, woo.
(both cheer)
- That's not bad.
- So much power you don't even know what to do with it.
We don't have the road for it.
- I've never had this much power in this car.
- You got some passengers in your car and they're like,
"Whoa, this thing sounds so frickin' cool."
And then you pop the hood and it melted off.
- But like, if you find yourself in a jam,
where, for some reason, you don't have an intake
and you're like, "Oh, okay.
I need to throw something on this to drive it home."
- Oh yeah, this will get you home.
- This will get you home.
- [Cameraman] Should we take it to "Cars and Coffee," maybe?
- See what the people think.
- We just got back from the road test
and now let's see if it held up,
if it's still where we left it.
Hey!
- Look at that. - It's not even melted.
It sounded pretty good.
I think this is, you know,
about as good as it can get.
But I'm really interested to see
what this thing would sound like
if we just made it a little bit longer.
And I have a spare piece of poop pipe.
So let's put it on there, see what it sounds like.
See if we can notice a difference.
I'm not sure.
Probably gonna get a lot of like gravity effect
helping the air down.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool.
All right, let's fire this hog up.
(engine revs)
(man cheers)
Hell yeah, brother!
Wow, oh my God!
Sounds about the same.
Looks way cooler though, you can't deny that.
And if we did cut a hole in the hood
think about all the cool cold air this thing would get.
This might be the ultimate intake.
It also might not.
Let's, let's talk about it.
Well, we did it.
We made an intake out of PVC piping meant to carry feces.
We hardly spent any money.
We spent less than 70 bucks
on the necessary materials to make an intake.
So, not too bad there,
especially when you consider that
aftermarket intakes often cost 3, 4, 500 bucks.
Didn't take very long.
I'd say we were probably at it
for like an hour and a half maybe, tops.
Bada bing bada boom, we were done.
That not withstanding, it didn't look that bad.
If you just walked by the car at a car show,
you might not even think about it.
But, it is stuff that's not meant to be used
in an automotive environment, like in an engine bay,
where things get really hot.
I don't really actually recommend doing this.
But, you know, do what you want.
Your mileage may vary.
You know, I'm not your dad.
I can't really give this that high a score.
I'll give this a one and a half out of five.
I hope you enjoyed it.
I hope Joey likes his new intake.
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