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45452, ebay cai question, please help
Posted by distort, Feb-27-03 07:51 AM
ok i have found 2 cai on ebay i kinda like. the first one has yellow hoses and seems to be a popular one and it looks good. the other one has blue hoses (Which is all that is under my car) and has a bigger filter, but it doesnt ahve a mounting bracket on it like the other and it seems to have 2 places for hoses? but only one hose. which one should i get? the one with yellow will not fit my color scheme at all unless i can find replacement sleeves and hoses in blue for cheap. any help? i have already bid on the one with blue. i hope its what im looking for tho.


here is the one with blue



but who knows if the actual product is actually blue hose/sleeve

and here is the yellow one

45453, RE: ebay cai question, please help
Posted by a_miller_76, Feb-27-03 08:00 AM
I have the yellow one, made by OBX. It's nice but the soft mount doesn't work. You have to make your own out of a 6m 1.0 bolt and some rubber washers.
45454, RE: ebay cai question, please help
Posted by BuckNutty, Feb-27-03 08:02 AM
You will be all set with either. I have a soft mount up top and no bracket. Had it almost a year and no probs yet. Good $60 spent, IMO.
45489, RE: ebay cai question, please help
Posted by BlakeW5, Feb-27-03 02:55 PM
Go for the blue one since it matches your color scheme. You won't need the mounting bracket, the CAI is already squeezed between the battery anyway, it won't go anywhere. Mine didn't have the bracket, and it's stayed on just fine.:thumbsup
45522, RE: ebay cai question, please help
Posted by distort, Feb-27-03 09:50 PM
ok thanks, one question tho, the piece that the hose connects to... there are two of them on the blue one? ?? whats the second one for? im a lil confused :wary
45526, RE: ebay cai question, please help
Posted by a_miller_76, Feb-28-03 02:28 AM
>ok thanks, one question tho, the piece that the hose connects
>to... there are two of them on the blue one? ?? whats the
>second one for? im a lil confused :wary


That's another reason I said go with the OBX. Dude, you can go to Autozone and cheaply buy blue couplers and blue hoses. But that one up there with 2 (maybe looks like three-look at the bend in the longer piece) hose connections is rediculous. Probably just generic bends not specifically fitted to our car....hence no bracket.

I don't know why you guys are saying you don't need a bracket. Mine comes in rather handy :thumbsup