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Back To Mods Section Air Intakes / FiltersIntakes At this point only 2 companies I know of who make an intake for the beretta. The first is Mantapart.com. It is listed around $150. Not a whole lot of info on the site so if your interested e-mail them. For part numbers it's listed in the engines section on the site. Here's the link just click on your engine and look around and you'll find the intake: http://www.mantapart.com/engines.html The second company is RS Motorsports out of Canada. Here's a link to check out their site: http://webhome.idirect.com/~rsm1/jbody_catalog.htm. Price is listed for as $249.00 Canadian or $177.00 US. This intake should work on 90-93 3.1L's and possibly 89 2.8's, but I can't say for sure. Filters
If your not into the whole intake, you can either replace your stock filter with a direct replacement K&N, or rig a universal cone filter to fit. A cone filter is better performance wise but will be a little more work to put in. You may (or may not..) have to make a few trips to your local home depot and play around with some different types of piping/tubing before you get something that works well. Do at your own risk. Look below for a more detailed installation procedure. K&N Direct Replacement Part Numbers: 94-96 L4 2.2L 33-2068 94-96 V6 3.1L 33-2068 1993 L4 2.2L 33-2022 1993 L4 2.3L 33-2022 1993 V6 3.1L 33-2037 1992 L4 2.2L 33-2022 1992 L4 2.3L 33-2022 1992 V6 3.1L 33-2037 90-91 L4 2.2L E-1015 1991 L4 2.3L 33-2022 90-91 V6 3.1L 33-2037 1990 L4 2.3L 33-2022 1989 V6 2.8L 33-2037 87-88 V6 2.8L E-0930 K&N Cone Filter Part Numbers: RE-0920 ** Works on 3.1 engines for sure - If anyone can confirm it works on other engines (2.0, 2.2, 2.8, 3100) please e-mail mm@berettastuff.com. Thanks. K&N RE-0920 Installation on a 3.1. First things first. Take out the existing airbox. There are four screws around the outside of the airbox. Take those out first and then open the airbox. Remove the filter and there will be one bolt holding the bottom section of the airbox on. Remove that bolt. A 13mm or 9/16 socket/wrench should work. (Note: the bolt is long, it takes a while, just keep going..) Before taking out the bottom section of the airbox, disconnect the sensor in the top right corner and disconnect the clamp and hose on the back. After that you have to get the remaining part of the sensor out of the airbox. I couldn't figure out the thing holding it on, so I started pulling and twisting working it out until it came out. Reconnect that piece to the sensor and let it hang. Next you have to connect the filter to the end of the rubber hose that came off the airbox. You end up with 2 clamps and 2 rubber ends. These will not work well together and your going to need some type of a more solid piece to go in between them to connect them. Get ready to go to the home depot. I made 2 trips. First thing I tried was a 3" PVC pipe coupler. This didn't fit either of the ends so I had to make another trip. (Maybe take the filter with you to know for sure if something will fit.)I was going to try just plain 3" PVC pipe, but they would only sell it in full 10 ft lengths and I wasn't about to buy the whole thing not knowing if it would work or not. (Note: After looking at it some more, I don't think it would work.) Next thing I did was check out the section that had like a/c and heating ducts. What I found was a small sheet metal connector. It was a 4" round connector and after I cut it down a little in length, it worked great. It slipped over the end of the K&N and was nice and snug, Even though I don't think I had to, I still clamped it. The other end also went over the end of the rubber intake hose without much trouble. I also clamped that end. Now your left with the air sensor. You could drill a hole and stick it in the intake hose, but I opted to just kind of wedge it between the air filter and the battery. I was also told you can just let the sensor hang there if you want. It didn't throw any kind of codes at me. Either way the runs to the Home Depot excluded, installation took about 15-20 minutes. Now it looks real good and that shiny sheet metal connector looks great compared to what the white pvc would've looked like. (I will have a pic up soon..) As soon as my tach hits 2500 RPM's, you can hear a distint sound (a good sound..) coming from the engine compartment and that sound stays as the RPM's wind up. Although it's hard to say whether there was a noticeable improvement in performance, it does seem to pull a little stronger at high speeds. Maybe it's just a psychological (that has to be spelled wrong) thing though, I don't know for sure. Either way I would highly recommend this mod to any owners. Total Cost: K&N Filter: $43.90 from Summit Racing PVC Coupler: $.76 from Home Depot (LOL and NO I'm not taking it back for 76 cents even though I didn't use it!) Sheet Metal Connector: $1.58 $46.24 |
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