Another Air HAmmer HO Install 56k warning

[rhitee93]

Well, here is another Air Hammer HO install. I probably have too many pics, but what the heck.

This is what I started with. The Air Hammer HO and all its goodies as it arrived: (You can see the unfinished drywall that I should have been working on instead of playing with the Air Hammer)



I wanted to paint mine to match the body, so here is the primer coat:

And the PRH base coat:

And the fog in the shop after shooting the clear:

I am not much of a painter, but the paint I got from automotivetouchup.com was pretty easy to work with. I had originally planned on painting "SXT" in a stylized graphic on the barrel, but I didn't care for the way it turned out so I removed it and left it plain.

Here is my '06 Magnum before I started:


Here it is after the air box is gone. You can see the stand pipe from the silencer:


And here the silencer has been removed:




And a couple of photos of the finished product:




and finally, the old parts waiting to be used to smack a beaver...




All in all, the installation took less than an hour including the time to take the silencer out. The instructions are clear and it goes in just like they say. The only tricky part is fiddling around to find just the right position to clamp everything down.

I don't know that I would say the car is much louder than before, but the tone from the engine compartment seems much lower and more pleasing to my ear than before. I still have the stock exhaust, so the car is still pretty quiet. Oh, you do get that little decompression hiss at shut down

I shouldn't really speculate on the power. It does seem like there is a lot less hesitation at launch, but I am not a believer in the SOP dyno method.

One of these days I'll order a red filter from the Rev once they are available

[mfkbmagnum]

Looks good. I like it body color.

[ZMagnum]

Looks great. I can't wait to get mine.

[lowriderman3]

Sweet as heck man!

[MR. J]

Looks awesome!

You should have gone with the red filter to match.

[MooNDoGGie]

Looks good. I like that inferno red colour match. But then I'm bias.

[perfectwave]

Nice !! Kant wate to git myne 2.

[wheelife]

Looks great rhitee93, perfect install!!!

A couple of notes;
1.) This is a full production unit notice the welds are much cleaner than the initial (prototype) units.
2.) We only have BLUE filters available at the moment but will be producing a RED filter some time in the fall.

[blackmagnum06]

wow that looks rilly good. i hope i get mines soon im just so anxious. mines will be black chrome to match my car

[rhitee93]

Thanks for the nice words guys. I spent most of this morning driving the kids around from activity to activity, and I have to break my promise not to be another SOP Dyno advocate. There is a noticeable change in driveability. I kept barking the tires when I normally wouldn't be able to, and squealed them half way into an intersection that had favorable pavement for that sort of thing.

This is the coolest morning we have had in along time, so that may have had a factor, but the car does seem a lot peppier.

[Knightmare65]

Looks really good. How did you get the silencer out? I couldn't figure out how to remove the tubing.

[Kevlar]

nice.... i still cant decide which CAI i want

[MooNDoGGie]

Looks really good. How did you get the silencer out? I couldn't figure out how to remove the tubing.

The silencer has to come out from the bottom. You need to drop the belly pan and put a 10mm socket on a very L O N G extension. One 10 mm bolt and it drops out the bottom. Nothing to it.

[rhitee93]

MooNDoGGie is right, the silencer has to come out the bottom, but it is simple. There is a post in the general knowledge forum on how to do it:

Removing the stock air silencer. *

For those of you who are undecided about the CAI, I can honestly say I would buy this one again. The car has definitely gotten louder over the week I have had it in. More of a lower growl now instead of the machinelike noise I used to get from the engine bay.

I was in a particularly goofy mood a couple of days ago and wondered what would happen if I tried to roast the tires at a stoplight. So I rolled on the gas with my left foot on the brake and it scared the crap out of me when the tires started to spin. I let up once they started to squeal so I don't know if I could have really smoked them. I had never tried it before so I don't know how much of that was due to the Air Hammer, but the car is completely stock otherwise.

I tried it again at 2 more intersections, and it worked there as well. Dry pavement to boot since it hasn't rained here for days.

Anyway, I like it

[bookeem]

theres gotta be way to cram one of those into a SE...lol

looks good man...