DIY cold-air intake box for your car. NO WELDER REQUIRED!

[@GoldenSim27]

best heat sheild build i found on youtube yet , excellent fab work !

[@CodyYankey]

Thanks man, really enjoyed making this one. Hard to balance video length and physical work with these projects. Trying to keep it realistic while keeping it shortish and informative is a challenge.

[@Chefboiali.]

This was so cool. Seeing this done neatly without a welder was a blessing! I feel like I can do this. :) Thanks for posting this!

[@daibennett9224]

I like how you made the brackets,good job

[@CodyYankey]

Thank you.

[@matthopkins7693]

Nice work! Enjoyed the video and got a few pointers for the box I intend on making for my truck.

[@CodyYankey]

Nice man, good luck with the project. I had a fun time making this one.

[@darieldelvalle1394]

Now it needs a cold air feed and you are golden

[@HungLoo]

Nice! Now i need you to make one for my 96-00 Civic.

[@Audi_Of_Death]

Wow definitely the best diy heat shield I've seen on KZbin. Very satisfying as well 👌

[@fordaddict2610]

Agreed. Nice job.

[@nuclearpistachio]

making tutorials is badass

[@daigosaito888]

Sheet material: 20bucks Filter: 40 bucks Entire workshop: priceless

[@CodyYankey]

I can assure you, there is a price for a workshop but you could make all this with some basic tools but you are going to need some space. You just need to be creative and set aside some time.

[@tudocervera3764]

very professional bro .. you da man!

[@dekcaddy3771]

great video!!!!! you give me some ideas for my custom shield to my cts cadillac !!

[@Querencias7]

NICE! Nice job indeed w/planning, designing AND executing. Kudos. PS: What would be a better insulator: Aluminum sheet vs Plastic sheet. Thanks!

[@CodyYankey]

Thanks man. Plastic would for sure but I am not sure how well it would handle the heat around that turbo. On an NA car I would have gone plastic for sure.

[@PRpowerBOV414]

Awesome best box cold air than welding thanks KZbin ....

[@SamVieiraGuitar]

Great, it looks good, but where does it sucks cold air from?

[@CodyYankey]

Behind the headlight. In my case there are some guards that I removed so air is unrestricted as it passes over the headlamp cover. You can see the guards on the underside of the hood on the passenger side of the car.

[@SamVieiraGuitar]

Great!! Then it will work really well

[@imaginationfactory62]

Cool,,, Not bad at all. I made a video a while back to show how to make a heat shield for any car myself.

[@GOD1SF1RST]

Good job 👍🏽

[@erickvallad4189]

Nice work! Thumbs up

[@babyboynene]

So about the COLD air ? Nice heat shield but no cold air flow

[@CodyYankey]

Nah, it gets good airflow from the headlight shroud. The plastic partitions have been removed so there is no seperation of panels and open gaps. Not really much more you can do outside of a NACA duct or headlight removal.

[@Jet3ch]

How do you figure out the height needed so it mates up with the hood?

[@CodyYankey]

That's the point of using cardboard. Just alot of opening and closing of the hood, trim more, maybe add some. There is a method of using toothpicks or bamboo skewers in the carboard, closing the hood and it pusing the wood/bamboo down to make a negative. Making the video for this job makes this process look quick but you're looking at 8ish hours of labor.

[@stezenast5878]

@@CodyYankey S-tier response

[@reclaimer3439]

Great build video! Does the heat shield reduce the sound from the aftermarket intake at all?

[@CodyYankey]

Thanks. No telling about the sound honestly. The car is a tin can with exhaust that dumps at the rear axle.

[@rickxs619]

nice job 👍👍👍

[@lilbaba2456]

yo really like your video but i got worried when you didnt use a safety guard on your grinder. Pls add one next time!

[@philjones5728]

Nice job. Great video - pictures are worth a 1000 words, so it was nice to see the time-lapse bits with brief explanations where needed. Just done the same thing on my Eunos 1.6 Turbo. Do you think it make much difference?

[@CodyYankey]

Thanks, glad you liked the format. I'm not sure of the difference is makes with lap times but I did have to change some after start enrichment settings once the car was hot. The air going in during start is noticeably cooler and caused some really crazy lean conditions a few times.

[@topnotch3722]

Where the quickest way to find aluminum or alloy to make the shield?

[@CodyYankey]

Sorry man, can't help you on that.

[@guyelliot789]

Good video

[@Grenadieros]

Great but no heat insulation?

[@CodyYankey]

What would you use to insulate?

[@Grenadieros]

@@CodyYankey : To block the heat from you exhaust manifold toward you POD filter, even a layer from outside could help a lot.

[@CodyYankey]

@@Grenadieros I understand the concept. I'm asking what you would use to achieve the desired effect.

[@POVQUAY]

Song at 1:30?

[@julianoliva2850]

Vacuum hose !?? Where did u get that rubber?

[@CodyYankey]

It's just some off the shelf vacuum hose I had lying around. I don't suggest you use it, which is why I left it out. There are much better options out there. Go to a local junk yard and pull some weather stripping from under the hood or door seals. This stuff does not make good contact with the hood in areas and tends to bend upwards at the edges.

[@timpache8776]

Would there be any issue with putting a lid on top instead of mating it with the hood

[@CodyYankey]

No, that would be awesome. The only issue I could see is building the lid itself. In my case the sides contour the hood. I'm not skilled enough to build a lid in this shape. So I would need to mount the filter lower and make the sides all the same height. Probably could do it but it might require a smaller filter.

[@LittleMac938]

for you car

[@CodyYankey]

You da real MVP. Good catch.

[@marclemar]

Yeah it ain’t that easy ..I need one

[@jenickjohnson4361]

any improvement in power?

[@CodyYankey]

Not really any found power but it does help with the heat soak I was facing after a track session. The car would start to pull power after about 15mins on track in the summer. I haven't had the issues since but temps have dropped a bit as well. I'll have to wait until next summer to really test it.

[@markcollard9326]

Won't this suck water into your filter?

[@CodyYankey]

I mean, water might get on it when it rains but this isn't a Jet Ski my dude.

[@theone-jm3gl]

Arent you Blocking air flow

[@CodyYankey]

The air under the hood is high pressure since the hood is not vented. So there really isn't a "flow" to speak of under the hood.

[@ch0005649]

pointless. The sticker on my car makes me additional 1000whp.

[@CodyYankey]

You got a link to one of them stickers?!

[@adairjanney7109]

this is lame, youtube is literally just pushing audio ads through the video now in a way you can never block it

[@adairjanney7109]

why even do this, you will not experience any performance gain, the stock airbox is always the best

[@CodyYankey]

@@adairjanney7109 you are not only incorrect, you are also ignorant. The stock air box is a mass airflow style of air metering and is itself a restriction. This is a turbo car running manifold absolute pressure for reference, eliminating the restriction and giving the shortest path to the turbo inlet. To add, this helps keep the hot engine bay temperature from increasing intake air temperature into the intercooler allowing longer duration of track time before it heatsoakes and pulls timing.

[@newsubject8933]

Moment I saw the machine that’s probably worth 10,000$ I gave up….

[@CodyYankey]

I don't think all my tools including my car added up to $10K my friend. These are all consumer grade marketplace/ebay tools.

[@975na]

the process

[@CodyYankey]

Brother, you gotta change that mind set. This took me all of 4 hours, even with recording. The garage is a place of zen and focus. You start out with an idea and at the end you have a (hopefully but, not always) improvement. Not only do I benefit from that but I also learned a great deal during the process. It's liberating.

[@georgefaltus]

When your mentally and physically sound there is no process that you cant and wont want to tackle that is what life is all about processes in everything we do, so start by doing some deep breathing before anything you do and some physical exercise before hand this will clear your mind and get your blood flowing to the areas you are having issues with its that simple and start eating healthy too all work together for a positive mind set! its that simple .

[@computek9141]

This is a DIY if you own/have a machine shop.🤦‍♂️

[@CodyYankey]

If you can't do this with just hand tools you should just pay someone to do the work for you.

[@975na]

i ain't got the patients for all this bs

[@CodyYankey]

You mean the video or just the process of building something?

[@JameyCampbell_54]

Your car probably reflects your laziness and lack of patience. Im sure it's a hack job shithole ricer

[@sourkraut555]

how thick is the metal or aluminum ? i want the same for my mercedes w203 :D ?

[@CodyYankey]

I don't remember how thick it was. I just went to my local metal supply store and bought one of there drop pieces.

[@phoeveezy6398]

Would be better with a good filter. Spectere are horrible

[@CodyYankey]

Why would the intake box be better with a different filter?

[@phoeveezy6398]

I was talking about the filter in the cool montage at the beginning of the video. People told me the same thing about spectre when I got one because of my budget but when I swapped it for k&n I noticed a huge difference. The box is awesome tho I’m giving it a try👍

[@POVQUAY]

Song at 2:00?