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I picked this DDMWorks Street intake up from another user here on NAM, that never installed it. Excited that it came a day earlier than expected, thanks USPS. Unpack everything around 3 pm yesterday, get a game plan, and go out to install. Start by removing top of air box, aFe drop in, and attached MAF. The metal bracket that attaches to the stock air has holes drilled for the MAF, so I installed the MAF there, and attached bracket to the bottom air box. Soon I realize that my OCC is totally in the way. I start moving stuff around, took can off of OCC, and was able to get intake installed the way it should be, but OCC totally open and no where else to put it, could have pulled the lower intake tube, but didn’t want to loose that fresh air. So being hot, pissed off, and not willing to loose my OCC, I placed it for sale, sorry MiniManAdam, and returned everything back the way it was. Few hours later, got a full belly, few beers, and “some fresh air” in me, I start to travel down the rabbit hole of YouTube and found the ALTA intake kept the MAF where it was and they where able to keep their OCC. I send a pm back to MiniManAdam, again sorry dude I really am, that I wanted to give it one more shot and try something else, and would let him know by 8am EST this morning, which I sent at 7:59, either way on what I was going to do. So wife out the door this morning 6:30, I get to splitting some tubing and wrap the hole where the MAF was supposed to go, and managed to work the 4 inch tube that was supposed to install into the stock intake. Left the MAF where it was, hooked up the 90 degree elbow and boom, just enough room for the OCC. Took it out, got her up to temp, and this is the way a turbo car should sound, wife will hate it, but the smile on my face will be worth it. Now for the pics and yes I will be pulling out the bottom air box and cleaning it to look like the rest of my engine bay, just didn’t have the time this morning.
Be careful with that heat shield. Those things have been known to melt the valve cover.
I have read that as well, came with the car. I have had it off, cleaned under it, cleaned under all the spark plug wiring. I am under the hood at least once a week, if not more.
I took out my grille and have not had issues. I had a similar intake to you (K&N typhoon) and it worked fine. It seems like the heat shield thing is not super common, so hopefully you don’t have any issues. I put some reflectagold (bling bling amirite?) on my valve cover as a precaution.
The set up looks good, I’m glad you got it to work for you. Tweaking little things and making the mod “yours” is probably one of the cooler parts of playing with cars.
I took out my grille and have not had issues. I had a similar intake to you (K&N typhoon) and it worked fine. It seems like the heat shield thing is not super common, so hopefully you don’t have any issues. I put some reflectagold (bling bling amirite?) on my valve cover as a precaution.
The set up looks good, I’m glad you got it to work for you. Tweaking little things and making the mod “yours” is probably one of the cooler parts of playing with cars.
I feel that there shouldn’t have been any tweaking to do, but I felt way better this morning once things start lining up.
Well done! And you have the advantage of a black car, so under the scoop doesn’t look as bad as a red car does. I have an AEM intake, so my scoop is free flowing also, but goes into the intake scoop, not the engine bay. No issues from rain or anything.
Well done! And you have the advantage of a black car, so under the scoop doesn’t look as bad as a red car does. I have an AEM intake, so my scoop is free flowing also, but goes into the intake scoop, not the engine bay. No issues from rain or anything.
thank you for the info and you’re an early bird like me 😉
damn, thats a nice idea, about pulling the fake grill to open it to more air in the engine bay, even with the stock air box, cause at least that will help add cooler air into the engine bay for engine/turbo cooling
now something else to search on how to remove that piece, thanks guys!!
PS: thanks for pics of your engine bay. I'm debating an OCC, IF I can find one at a decent price.
damn, thats a nice idea, about pulling the fake grill to open it to more air in the engine bay, even with the stock air box, cause at least that will help add cooler air into the engine bay for engine/turbo cooling
now something else to search on how to remove that piece, thanks guys!!
PS: thanks for pics of your engine bay. I'm debating an OCC, IF I can find one at a decent price.
Search for how to remove the hood scoop, then removing the inlet grill is easy after that. I still have my inlet grill in place, but I took a Dremel to the closed off bits to open it for more flow.
Funny timing on this thread. I JUST visited my local BMW Indy to have him clear engine adaptations after my throttle body install, for 8ts relearn process and while there he just happen to have an NM air intake system for sale, so I grabbed that. Now to install it tomorrow
Nice looking install. What keeps this from drawing warm engine air?
Not a damn thing. The intercooler is where it makes up for it. I just got a new G+ intercooler, Wagner clone, and my intake temps are 2-4 degrees above ambient the same as the stock air box after getting heat soaked. This intercooler, I have had it for a month, recovers way quicker than my last once, as soon as you start moving.
With stock intercooler and air box I would run 8 to 10 over. Just throwing numbers out there since I’ve recently have been back to stock then back to all mods in signature.
