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Canberra
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April 2003
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 Cold air Induction for ST162
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Fri, 05 March 2004 11:19
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whoops this is for you StuC........ mostly...
I kinda kept forgetting this as well. hehe
This is the CAI I did for my ST162, yours will be a bit different no doubt, it impossible for anyone else to get it the same as mine.   grrrr...
this is the original resonator box, you want to get rid of this.
this is one off an ST165 this is what I had
I replaced it with this.
note the top black peice is off the 165 box
I used 65mm PVC piping that join in the middle is just a peice of rubber (also allows a drainage point) with hose clamps when I put it together (front piece in) I put a peice of flyscreen over the end to filter out the big shit, rocks, bugs (trust me I found alot of these in there last time I checked it, this has saved my filter sooo much damage)did the whole thing for about $35.
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Sydney
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September 2003
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Re: Cold air Induction for ST162
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Fri, 05 March 2004 11:49
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Damn that looks excelent  , any increase in performance?.
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Canberra
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April 2003
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Re: Cold air Induction for ST162
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Fri, 05 March 2004 13:07
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you kinda really don't notice little differences like this with a turbo, I had a dodgier old one on my original 3sge it did feel a bit better, but that was pretty dodgy, I mean dodgier than RobST162's, hehe
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Location:
Melbourne
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December 2003
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Re: Cold air Induction for ST162
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Fri, 05 March 2004 13:14
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thanx heaps man, thats exactly what i was after. i havent seen any photos of the restrictor box and havent had time to take off the arch yet, but that is exactly what im gonna do.
Cheers mate
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Location:
Epping, Sydney
Registered:
April 2003
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Re: Cold air Induction for ST162
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Fri, 05 March 2004 13:37
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, but that was pretty dodgy, I mean dodgier than RobST162's, hehe
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lol, that's impossible!
yeah but mine is BIG! 
I think I will do one up like yours
thanks for putting this up Joel it's tops
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Location:
Wahroonga
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June 2003
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Re: Cold air Induction for ST162
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Fri, 05 March 2004 22:12
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I had plans of doing something like this but not until i had my battery relocated to the boot, and a few more mods.
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South Australia
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July 2002
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Re: Cold air Induction for ST162
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Sat, 06 March 2004 02:05
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THat looks damn neat...but I can't see myself having my luck finding the ST165 resonator end...what alternatives are there?
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Location:
Canberra
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April 2003
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Re: Cold air Induction for ST162
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Sat, 06 March 2004 07:44
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thats why I said guys that none of you can make it the same hehe, I should be alright though, beacause i am using the st165 stuff all the intake piping before the air box is different to the 162 stuff, the 162 has that large pipe running down inside the engine bay to behind the headlight, you could plumb a peice of pipe into the side of that with some modification, the only reason I had to keep the 165 resonator end was cause the 165 doesn't have that pipe inside the engine bay, it all goes into the side panel due to really limited space. basically it would have to be more like classique71's if anyone renembers that, but you could easily go to 65mm with some piping modification.
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Location:
South Australia
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July 2002
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Re: Cold air Induction for ST162
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Sat, 06 March 2004 10:58
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That's what I thought, maybe I'll just move the battery to the boot and do the whole thing from the panel-box anyway.
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Location:
Adelaide
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April 2003
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Re: Cold air Induction for ST162
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Sun, 07 March 2004 13:00
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Could you post pics of the front of your car??
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November 2003
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Re: Cold air Induction for ST162
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Mon, 08 March 2004 06:07
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yeah that looks sweet. looked at options with mine but too much trouble.
i got a k&n panel filter at the moment and that about as far as i will got atm.
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Location:
Canberra
Registered:
April 2003
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Re: Cold air Induction for ST162
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Mon, 08 March 2004 06:21
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here you go NuGeN, My baby with her dress off  (she'll get over it  )
Yeah I got the k&n panel as well, not point in this without some better flow 
Now you can se why I have that nice little bend in it, just so I don't get air from too low
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Location:
South Australia
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July 2002
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Re: Cold air Induction for ST162
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Tue, 09 March 2004 02:33
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Actually there's more than one reason why you don't want it too low, fact of the matter is, you want it as close to the centre of the car as possible, and as close to midway between the front lip of the bonnet and the ground.
This is because the *slowest* air is the most dense, and dense air is what you need for more power.
People saying 'that the air will be 'forced' in if you put it further away from the centre of the car' are not particularly bright. Although ram-air does work and can be good, it's not particularly practical for most cars and due to the low speed work that most street cars do...
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