if you are realy thinking about making the CAI's think about protecing your idea. this forum might help if they don't have an auto wipe for older posts (ask the sys admin). any letters/mail you get/send, copy it and mail the orginals back to yourself. the postmark WILL work in court if unopened. maybe you have a bud that knows more than i (with the copywright stuff). just a thought, anybody got some ideas to help?

 

You can't copyright an idea or thought, it has to be a blueprint or finished piece as far as I know. I would suggest taking pictures of your finished product and documenting time and date. Even so, that's what America is all about, Free enterprise. So someone could come along and change up your product a bit and sell it as their own.

 

True.
I just hope that spudsterier can beat em to it.
His intercooling pipe idea is a good one.

 

maybe the first ones i will make i will just sell them for what the cost to make it is....no profit to me....i know for the filter it will be a k&n..nothing else

i have all the emails saved and all the pics dated, i thought about that and checked it all before i originally posted them on here...
hey if a person can sue mc donalds over spilling hot coffee on themselves and win, i should have a good chance if sumone copies it......hopefully

i think with the next couple of days im gonna take mine apart and figure out all the measurements and angles and diagram it all...since when i made mine i just cut a little here and cut a little there and put silicone hose around all the joints to hold them together...mine is also held together by about 10 band clamps....

when i get the diagram done im gonna talk to one of the inventor companies and send in the idea and blueprints....i have info packets laying on my desk that i havent opened yet from about 4 different companies...did you know that the first company i talked to wants $10,000 to patent an idea....thats insane for me being that i cant even afford to get an illignment on my car(i have been through about 6 sets of front tires since february)

maybe tomorrow after i put the new bfg atz's on my rango and mess with the fuel injection on my new pimp *** drug mobile('87 benz) i will rip the intake apart and blueprint it then just to get it over with...but we will have to see...i will keep you informed

 

do the front end job yourself. the only thing you need is a temp unit to tell where the hot spot on your tire are. if your wheels are straight the temp should be within 1deg across the whole tire. take some temps before you adjust anything to get a baseline. good luck.

 

HUH?????

 

thats what i was wondering???.....allignment???

 

an allignment isnt really that hard...its alot of trial and error tho...you gotta no which way to move the tie rods. now the thing is I was doin allignments at my ex job, an the guy tol me that you gotta align the back first then the front on top of that, if the caster ain good theres no point in workin on the toe.
and best of luck on the intake project spudsterier.

 

thanks for the info..but im just gonna take it in soon to get the allignment....i wont be able to do it myself because i cant figure out the caster/camber part of it...and the koni struts that im gonna put back on the car had that adjustment....but i should be able to afford it here soon since me and the wife have just started an additional job 2 days ago

 

as we all know tires get hot during use. if the toe and/or camber is off the tire's contact patch will have hot spots (caster is for tracking). if you want to do the job yourself it's ALOT quicker to use temp gauge to check the camber, unless you got the alignment gear.

camber: the hot spot will be the "lower" part of the tire which you want to "raise" bringing the contact patch level with the road. first check for psi and drive the car to heat up the tires then take a baseline reading on the tires. the closer the temp spred across the tread (straight line from in to out) the smaller the camber angle.

toe: turn steering wheel all the way to one side, count how many turns to go all the way to other side. turn wheel to middle of count. if the steering don't look centered, you got big probs. measure the distance between the font side of the tires (yardstick taped to the tires makes it easy) and the back side of the tires. you want the same distance.