Question for canadians

MaDz

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mazda protege es 2003
Hi,
I installed a cai on my protege and now I'm wondering if I have to take it off when winter comes? lots of info on water but what about snow? any canadians leave theirs on for winter? this is a daily driver car...
thx for the help once again,,

MaDz
 
i live in the mtl area,and never took off my cai during winter,simply modified it so its a short ram for winter,but if you leave down into the fender,be sure to have a good filter,like a k&n that is washeable...for me never had any trouble....
 
what if i leave it as it is, i have the simota one.....not sure how to modified it since the last pipe going down has a sensor plugging in it...
 
Injen 2 years not changes in winter no issues at all, I clean the fileter at the end or each summer.

Im in Montreal Quebec Canada also.

Never any starting issues or nothing.
 
Rac3rX said:
Injen 2 years not changes in winter no issues at all, I clean the fileter at the end or each summer.

Im in Montreal Quebec Canada also.

Never any starting issues or nothing.


no cells, nothing?
im a little scare to leave it on, but thx for the info!
 
MaDz said:
no cells, nothing?
im a little scare to leave it on, but thx for the info!

Nope, no CELs no ruff starts, nothing at all but a great intake and well protected in the bumpre (Ive seen ITR CAI's and they scare me) Winter is the least of my worries, there arnt as many lake size puddles in the winter, THOSE you need to be carefull with.

Get motor mounts though, there is alot more throttle responce and it makes easy mush out of the stock mounts.
 
Rac3rX said:
Nope, no CELs no ruff starts, nothing at all but a great intake and well protected in the bumpre (Ive seen ITR CAI's and they scare me) Winter is the least of my worries, there arnt as many lake size puddles in the winter, THOSE you need to be carefull with.

Get motor mounts though, there is alot more throttle responce and it makes easy mush out of the stock mounts.

thx for the help! i will leave it on :)

MaDz
 
patmaz said:
i live in the mtl area,and never took off my cai during winter,simply modified it so its a short ram for winter,but if you leave down into the fender,be sure to have a good filter,like a k&n that is washeable...for me never had any trouble....

how can you do that? I have a sensor plugging in the 2nd piping going down,
if it wasnt for that sensor, would be easy to remove that last piping and stick the filter after the map sensor.....
help me out..I have the 2.0 engine, I was thinking about winter we get here and snow isnt all that matters, what about those slushy days .. where it's slush all over(slush? sp) im french, maybe it won't make any sense ;)
thx for the info and help guys, apreciated! ;)

MaDz
 
MaDz said:
how can you do that? I have a sensor plugging in the 2nd piping going down,
if it wasnt for that sensor, would be easy to remove that last piping and stick the filter after the map sensor.....
help me out..I have the 2.0 engine, I was thinking about winter we get here and snow isnt all that matters, what about those slushy days .. where it's slush all over(slush? sp) im french, maybe it won't make any sense ;)
thx for the info and help guys, apreciated! ;)

MaDz

Take a peice of 3" pipe thats about 9" long, and attach it after the MAF and before the filter.

You just need to find a way to hold the pipe/filter up, there are ALOT of ways you can do this though, its up to you.

EDIT

My bad, mine is after the MAF
 
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Grab a intake off ebay and Cut the Pipe that has it, they are pretty cheap.

All you would need is 3"X9" with the sensor plug

Or just make one.
 
Rac3rX said:
Take a peice of 3" pipe thats about 9" long, and attach it after the MAF and before the filter.

ok but I have another sensor that plugs into the 2nd pipe, something like this:

throttle---\
............... \
................. ---map---\
................................. \
.................................... ----another sensor\
................................................................ \
.................................................................. \
.................................................................... -filter around wheel.
it has a black rubber thingie in the pipe, where I would connect that second sensor, this is my problem..if it wasnt for this one, I think that would be fairly easy...:/
If it is any help, I live in canada.. I hears in the simota gb that we have different engines from some other places....Maybe im wrong..i dont really know what im doing:/
 
Yeah its a b**** like that.

But the Ebay intake has the sensor, Cut the portion of the pipe that has the sensor bung. Look how you want it to fit in the engine and cut it to how it will fit best.

Put it between the MAF and filter and atach the sensor to it.
 
Rac3rX said:
Yeah its a b**** like that.

But the Ebay intake has the sensor, Cut the portion of the pipe that has the sensor bung. Look how you want it to fit in the engine and cut it to how it will fit best.

Put it between the MAF and filter and atach the sensor to it.

cut the piping? that would suck, I love the intake in the summer...I still want my intake on for the summer...
I need to figure something out...Maybe i should of went with a SRI...grrr.. learning experiences I guess...
thx for all the help, racer
 
The Ebay Intakes has the same pipe as the Injen that I have, so this pic should show what I mean.

If you already have your Pipe from the throttle to the MAF, do the folowing to the ebay intake.

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This way you can switch it back for summer because you will still have all the parts from your Main intake.
 
Rac3rX said:
The Ebay Intakes has the same pipe as the Injen that I have, so this pic should show what I mean.

If you already have your Pipe from the throttle to the MAF, do the folowing to the ebay intake.

dsc000489ep.jpg


This way you can switch it back for summer because you will still have all the parts from your Main intake.

looking at that pic.. where you say.. CUT >-- just over that I have a tube that's coming from my engine to the piping...ur's seems to go lower for some reason...
now, if you look at ur pic again, where the CUT ends, THE T in the cut.. just below that i what I beleive to be the maf sensor..now this is my problem.. AFTER that sensor I have one more connecting to the last pipe holding the filter down in the wheel well.
from that pic it seems u dont really have that sensor at all..wtf?
 
Weird ...

Ill check if there is a sensor out of site or something, next time I get a chance, but from what I know the Line to the valve cover and the MAF are the only 2.
 
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