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Old Apr 14, 2005 | 11:43 AM
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Default My VaraRam install last weekend

All went went good in my book.
JJ wanted a textile for our 13th anniversary………so I said how about a CAI. She said as long as it’s a VaraRam........

The CAI wasn’t hard at all (Thanks for the quick shipment Shawn) 3 hours max but I took the time to take pictures, weigh parts and clean my stuff before I put in back on.
I only added the one black rubber spacer to the bottom of fog light housing bolt. That worked best as I only had to trim ¼” of width off my silicone TB to CF Air bridge hose.
It kept the plastic fog light intake off the bumper nose so it stayed nice & smooth and the rest of the fit up was fine.
As other have said the instruction that are in the box SUK. Between their Website ( which need so work too!)

http://www.vararam.com/vr1b_install01.html

And other posts it all made sense
A few tips to add to the other posts I have seen:

Blow out your radiator & condenser coils or hit them with a hose if you can. You may be surprised at the amount of road debris that comes out!

I painted the fog light housing rivets black for a more stealth look from the front.

I left the fog lights in place and just pushed down the front cooling ducts. Allowed removal of the OEM housing and installation of the new ones a breeze as my pictures show.

This car will go to the track on the 22nd of this month……….so we will see the improvement from this CAI and a tune. Feels close to 11’s@115 now

















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On my cuss factor of 1-10(being lots-o-cussing)
I rate it a 2, just because of all those little screws…..but a 3/8” air ratchet was my friend
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Old Apr 15, 2005 | 04:48 PM
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Just got mine running today. How is your tune? I was told I will likely need to have mine tweaked as it will get rich now that the Vararam has been installed.
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Old Apr 15, 2005 | 11:56 PM
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Nice looking setup!
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