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Sounds great. Love how wide the tires are as well. Ended up looking up your tire post. Something I want to do in the near future, hopefully.
 

close up pf the tips please?  id love to get some black ones.
 
also sounds great!

Dude, that is cool!!! I wish i could do that to mine, but being in California we have very strict smog laws and I think removing the muffler isn't even an option.
Sounds great...good job.

I finally got my exhaust done.  I decided to stick with the stock resonator, delete the mufflers and add 4 inch black powder coated tips for looks.  Let me know what you think of the sound.  Once I get a good car wash I’ll post a couple pics.
 
 

So this intake resonator delete kit is by RPM-Motorsports I say its overpriced but still bought it $199 it has stock air box and drop in K&N filter btw. Is it louder cant say I have an aftermaret exhaust, but throttle body response is noticeable. Also Top Plenum has to be removed as seen in the pics since tube is one piece you risk scratching the tube or tearing a cable.

i bet you did LOL!!

My "speeding" is limited to 5 mph over whatever the posted speed limit is, except in school zones, which I do exactly the limit. I lived young and restless (and reckless) in my younger days and spent the better part of 10 years trying to clean my driving record up so it did not cost me $6000 a year for liability only insurance on a $2500 beater car. If I want to go fast, I'll pay for a few laps at a Richard Petty driving school or something, Not the least bit worth it to me and I do hope ya'll are on lonely stretches of road out in the middle of nowhere when your testing the top speed limiter and not endangering other drivers.
I'll stop being the dad now.

i like the caliper paint.  did you paint them while on the vehicle or remove them?

Those are the best aftermarket wheel ive seen on our cars. Great job!

It's more like the kind of gasket you see on a door frame.  It's on the hood, directly in line with the opening for the intake.

Just a little.  Hehehe...

just wondering do you think the way it was made taking air in at the top them going downward then into the air box might have been designed to keep water from being sucked into the filter. if it comes straight into the filter causing problems ?

There's also a gasket in front of the factory intake inlet that keeps the largest bits of debris out.  The front edge of the hood will keep most water out as well.  After that, suction takes over.  A little bit of water won't cause any problems (these engines work fine in the 90% humidity of Baltimore!).  Just don't open a garden hose into the intake...

One would think that removing the original intake and replacing it with a conical filter surrounded by a metal box would lead to a slightly increased temperature compared to the original intake because metal is a better conductor of heat than plastic.  Surrounding your conical filter with a metal box that is still tied to the same front facing intake leaves you with the same air flow, if not even worse depending on how you build it.  If you insulated it (on the outside of said box - you don't want that insulation to fail and clog your filter) with non-flammable materials, you might have a minor performance gain over OEM.  It needs to be sealed up tight all the way around or it's going to draw in hot air from the engine bay.
 
Fabricating something that eliminates the foot or so drop and bend would possibly be beneficial.  But the point remains - the OEM intake is a true cold air intake in that it draws in air that has not passed over the radiator nor has it gotten anywhere near the engine before passing through the air filter and intake manifold.

Bet it sounds good though.....

If you took the time to do that, yes, that might make a minor difference for the intake.  If nothing else, you've removed a bend in the airflow from the leading edge of the hood to the filter.  To accomplish the full removal of that bend, you need to completely remove the rest of the original intake (that now disconnected black plastic box) and mold something to fit in it's place.

About that....lol.  I left the piece that flowed the outside air into the stock air cleaner box.  My plan moving forward is to have a heat shield built, similar to others sent with aftermarket intakes or filters.  I have a guy that is good at working with metal materials.  I'd like to have a hole with rubber around it for the piece with air flowing in from the front and the same rubber to meet the hood as well.  We'll see how it turns out.  

I pieced together an air intake and primed and painted my original calipers.  The intake was pretty easy.   Items needed were the pipe, filter, coupler and hose clamp, and brass fitting for the small hose coming from the motor that was connected to the original air cleaner box.  I went with a 3.5” pipe, coupler and clamp.  Painting the calipers was easy.  Take the wheels off, put a couple coats of VHT caliper primer on, and then a couple coats of VHT black caliper paint on the calipers and anything else you want to spray while your down there.  Lol. I can honestly say, the caliper paint made a big difference visually.  

2017 DJ Crossroad AWD (Redline Pearl)
Added Groups:
(Flexible Seating Group, Driver Convenience Group, MOPAR All Weather Group)
 
Non Added Options:
(Navigation, Sunroof, Child Booster Seat)
 
I can't freaking wait, this week is going to go by like a drunken snail LOL

They really look good!

@Armando G   Just over $2000.  I caught a deal on the wheels at $1688. I think the tires were $420. 

Looks great.

That look very nice. If you don't mind, what was the total cost for rims and tires? My tires are due for a change and I am really thinking of upgrading my 17's.

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