Originally Posted by
RoRo
I'll take better pictures tomorrow when hopefully it's not raining. I didn't bother to make a DIY guide. I was laughing though when taking all of the stock pieces off. I don't know how it is on the 1st gen Aveo, but on the 2nd gen, they have this snorkel looking thing that runs from the second black box you pull off and goes up into the passenger side front fender. I don't know how or where air gets to that to do anything for your engine. If you look at the rear of the passenger side headlight and go about 5 inches towards the back of the car on that fender, then that is where this snorkel/intake thingy was.
But making your own CAI is quite simple, if you have a local muffler shop with a pipe bender and cutter, then it's just a matter of choosing what size pipes you want and picking out the air filter and getting everything to match up.
I'm also thinking about taking the pipes back off and painting everything with high temp black textured paint. I've had that paint on a previous car and it looked pretty sweet, but then again that car was black.