Accessories questions for LMS CAI installation on my FX35?
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I have the K&N air filter on the lms pipe i just haven't put the factory box back on it. I just threw it in there after work thursday. We have different LMS pipes, your sig says LMS z-pipe and I got the short ram ("CAI"). The short ram is longer than the z-pipe and it also has an opening for the air flow sensor to slide into. So the stock filter box needs some hacking for it to work
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- 05 FX35 RWD
yay!
Stimulus - Shhhiiii.... I'm late on that one.
Congrats! I like to pedal-push toe-dance thing-a-ma-bob every now and then. I have the LMS CAI on now with no stock air box and I have an almost identical charger as turbo's sitting in the garage...
I'd rather them send me a girl to stimulate me but oh well...
Frankiago, why do you have a charger just sittin' in a garage? Is it bunk?
should I stay away from this type?
surely it's got to be better than stock.
I had planned on fitting the stock box back in but I have had second thoughts. I think i'm going to leave it be.
It doesn't ever get that hot out here in Colorado and we don't have the traffic that Cali has.
I grew up in San Diego and traffic would make me go absolute APE S#!T hehe.
Frankiago, why do you have a charger just sittin' in a garage? Is it bunk?
should I stay away from this type?
surely it's got to be better than stock.
I had planned on fitting the stock box back in but I have had second thoughts. I think i'm going to leave it be.
It doesn't ever get that hot out here in Colorado and we don't have the traffic that Cali has.
I grew up in San Diego and traffic would make me go absolute APE S#!T hehe.
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It's sitting in the garage because the FX and supercharger are in that same garage, and that garage is about 898 miles away from me right now 
I'm waiting on a few things before putting it on... I'll have videos and pics during the summer time when I won't be ~900 miles away.
I'm waiting on a few things before putting it on... I'll have videos and pics during the summer time when I won't be ~900 miles away.
So stock air box w/ LMS tube. Was this an easy install?? There's someone selling his LMS tube and want to keep my stock airbox. If the install takes some modification to any parts, then might as well leave the stock intake system alone. What to do?
It's pretty easy. Just make the opening for the stock airbox bigger for the tube to go through or the filter lip to come out.
widen the diameter of hole that connects the airbox to tube, like using a dremel to sand the opening?
What do you mean make the filter lip to come out?
Sorry, I can't make out a picture of this right now.
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Psiclne
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if you want to use the OEM box just get the LMS Ztube. It bolts right up with no modifications needed.
Yes! That's exactly what I want, but what about what Whitehair is saying about the filter lip, widening the inlet box?
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Psiclne
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LMS made 2 versions -
the Ztube and the Short Ram.
I think some guys are using the short ram into a stillen box/oem box.
The Short Ram was designed to be used with a cone type filter.
The Ztube (which is the one I have) bolts right up. Replacing the oem piping/tubing.
I will try to take a picture tonite and that should explain the setup for the LMS CAI.
You really don't have to mod or hack anything up...
if you use the z-tube, you would use your stock couplers and your done. connects from throttle body to your MAF (mass air flow)
if you get the CAI also know as the short ram (this is the longer of the two) you connect this to the throttle body using either a straight coupler like I did or a reducing coupler like white hair did. The short ram eliminates the air filter box since the filter is at the end of the short ram and it eliminates the MAF body since the sensor itself plugs right into the pipe. Both are super easy to do.
What some have done is cut the hole bigger in the stock airbox so that it hides and shields the filter itself. How ever you don't need to do this step. I chose to just remove the stock airbox completly.
if you use the z-tube, you would use your stock couplers and your done. connects from throttle body to your MAF (mass air flow)
if you get the CAI also know as the short ram (this is the longer of the two) you connect this to the throttle body using either a straight coupler like I did or a reducing coupler like white hair did. The short ram eliminates the air filter box since the filter is at the end of the short ram and it eliminates the MAF body since the sensor itself plugs right into the pipe. Both are super easy to do.
What some have done is cut the hole bigger in the stock airbox so that it hides and shields the filter itself. How ever you don't need to do this step. I chose to just remove the stock airbox completly.
Here is a picture of my LMS CAI with Stillen Box.
The black rubber is the lip of the filter. And LMS CAI tube connects to the filter.
Hope this gives you an idea. :.smile:
