Since the intake manifold has the throttle body on the front, I needed to come up with a way to get cold air into the engine efficiently. I have seen several ways of routing air into the engine, most of which use a 90 degree elbow with a small conical filter of some kind. I wanted the advantage of using cold fresh air. After searching around, I finally realized that the C5 corvettes do pretty much exactly what I wanted.

I picked up a C5 air bridge and stared at it for hours trying to figure out how to make it work on a C3. I noticed that the radiator did not come up the to top of the support and found a starting point. If I could notch out the radiator support enough for the airbridge, I could get cold air from behind the center grille. I sent off my brand new radiator support to my welder buddy and told him exactly what I wanted. He cut out the center section and lowered it about 3 inches.

With the new support in place, I routed the air bridge up and over the radiator using the stock C5 pieces. The bellows from the air bridge to the MAF is from the 99 Camaro donor car. For the air filter, I picked up a huge K&N filter.

All the new air ducting posed a new problem, the hood. Normally the hood would flip open on its hinges with the front dropping into the well in front of the radiatior. The new intake was now in the way of the hood opening fully. After trying to find a new hinge system to get the hood to lift up as it flips open, I finally accepted that the hood would not open all the way. That was just fine with me. The new hood support is just a wooden dowel painted black that stows behind the seats when not in use.

	Intake Ducting Since the intake manifold has the throttle body on the front, I needed to come up with a way to get cold air into the engine efficiently. I have seen several ways of routing air into the engine, most of which use a 90 degree elbow with a small conical filter of some kind. I wanted the advantage of using cold fresh air. After searching around, I finally realized that the C5 corvettes do pretty much exactly what I wanted. I picked up a C5 air bridge and stared at it for hours trying to figure out how to make it work on a C3. I noticed that the radiator did not come up the to top of the support and found a starting point. If I could notch out the radiator support enough for the airbridge, I could get cold air from behind the center grille. I sent off my brand new radiator support to my welder buddy and told him exactly what I wanted. He cut out the center section and lowered it about 3 inches. With the new support in place, I routed the air bridge up and over the radiator using the stock C5 pieces. The bellows from the air bridge to the MAF is from the 99 Camaro donor car. For the air filter, I picked up a huge K&N filter. All the new air ducting posed a new problem, the hood. Normally the hood would flip open on its hinges with the front dropping into the well in front of the radiatior. The new intake was now in the way of the hood opening fully. After trying to find a new hinge system to get the hood to lift up as it flips open, I finally accepted that the hood would not open all the way. That was just fine with me. The new hood support is just a wooden dowel painted black that stows behind the seats when not in use.





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