I believe BGR thought up this mod a few years back before the 8Gs ever had CAIs made for them. I took a step further into the ghetto realm. This mod simply removes the whole bottom portion of the intake (water bypass stuff, which wont be neccicary unless it floods in your area), which converts it into a warm air intake. Also it seems to add some power, as well as a very addictive sound.
The differance between BGR's mod and mine, is that I actually cut the whole bottom portion of piece #7 off. The thing is that after you remove all those pieces your left with an air filter that cant be properly supported. For the longest time I use string to hold it in. Recently I upgraded to using the stock mounting piece (#7), and cutting out the whole bottome section. So basicly same thing, though the skeleton og #7 holds it up (while #7 has a big ass hole in it).
BUT do remeber, BGR's version is where he flips the whole box upside down, so the intake RESTs on the mounting bracket. The good thing about his way is that it can be easily converted back to stock in under a minute. While with mine, you have ZERO change of going back to stock (which might be of some importance to people who live in rainy areas).
Also concering the whole rain thing, I road with this filter like this, through California's SECOND MOST RAINIEST season in the last 150 years. This last year so far we've had 37 inches of rain (while the state record is 38 inches). I've also road through my county during the california fires (MAP ~ those spots you see are enourmas fires raging on ~ this was when they first began). The air was thick as with.
Through all this, the fires and the rain, i've had no problems. https://www.thegalantcenter.org/styl...ault/smile.gif
BEFORE:
http://img242.echo.cx/img242/7484/gh...fore7em.th.gif
AFTER:
http://img241.echo.cx/img241/4476/gh...fter5lp.th.gif
Pics of the actual setup:
http://img189.echo.cx/img189/2152/dsc006249fi.th.jpg
http://img189.echo.cx/img189/4546/dsc006262ce.th.jpg
http://img189.echo.cx/img189/8114/dsc006278xm.th.jpg
http://img189.echo.cx/img189/5897/dsc006294is.th.jpg
http://img189.echo.cx/img189/5175/dsc006306ge.th.jpg