Well not a whole lot but its got more than it had before. I bought myself a cold air intake. Not going to go too crazy on this car but wanted a little more power, better throttle response and maybe some increased fuel economy. Will see if the latter happens.

Took my handy dandy Canon out and snapped some pics of the install.

Was excited to get this box from the FedEx man. He always brings presents.

Fired up the Remington heater for the garage. Was 42 degrees when I turn it on. About an hour and fifteen later, it was 65.
Powered by kerosene. Contributing to the global warming.

Before.

During.

That beastly throttle body.

The MAF or mass airflow sensor. Its job is to measure the amount of air coming into the engine so the computer can meter the correct amount of fuel for the condition.

You can see the sensitive strip in this crappy picture.

Here is whats going in all laid out.

Ta da, its in. Yes, that is duct tape you see there. I had an issue with the PCV (positive crankcase ventilation) hose and the hose wouldn't fit. I have a new one coming tomorrow.

Side view.

Other side.

Here is view of the filter in the fender well. Wasn't easy getting it in.

This is the stock intake system. Bulky for sure.

Fear the whole 155-160 hp the 3.8 has now!

Impression after the install.
Fitment is great minus the PCV hose. Made out of quality materials. First thing I noticed was that there was a nice improvement in throttle response. Lot better than before. I shut off the radio and fan to listen for any apparent leaks and you can hear it sucking in the air. Thats cool. Getting out on the onramp and putting the pedal to the floor and there is a noticeable increase in power. Overall quite happy with my purchase.

Cool.....I'm getting one for the Sky. I'm also going to get a Borla dual-exhaust, and was thinking about an ECU reflash.

Nice setup, looks great. you know whats funny though? you have twice the displacement of my saturn and only make 35-40 more HP? LOL

Maybe i will have to dig my CAI out and install it in my saturn , i am just worried about the filter on it, it is a cheaper Ebay special

Thats cool, my dad was really happy with the effects of the K&N we installed on the Tundra as well. It sounds throatier and you can feel a jump in top end power.

Your engine has more potential than you think.....some 3.73 gears (or 4.10 since you have an automatic) would really wake your car up. A dual exhaust system would make it sound pretty nice too.

BTW.....clean that engine bay! :P

good choice. BBK makes nice intakes, i almost bought their intake for my car, but ended up going with a carbon fiber model cuz it looked so badass, lol.

Thanks guys. BBK makes some nice intakes and I'd recommend them. No more duct tape on it as the new PCV line fixed it.

Don't worry, the engine bay will get cleaned out come better weather and when we turn the water back on outside. Just filthy from the winter.

I have thought about a dual exhaust for it. Maybe a Magnaflow but certainly something good but not ungodly expensive. Its an automatic V6 for god sake. Hmmmm...maybe buy one of those with my money from the stimulus check I'll be getting. As for gears, I am not going to get that serious with it not to mention fuel economy as this is my daily driver which I put on about 75 miles going back and forth to school 3 days a week and then put through town a lot.. Never going to race it. Now if it was a project car.....

As for your intake on the Saturn Pilot, I'd go buy a quality filter before putting it on. Personally, I'd never trust an eBay special filter.

Yeah thats why it is boxed away in my trailer, but it only cost me something like $20. so i can put a good filter on it and still be into it for under $100

Green Performance Filters. get one.

What are they, what makes them better then say, K&N? i have never head of them

Green used to only make filters for race teams in series like LeMans GT, WRC, a few off-road series, Grand Am (i believe), and a few others. they just started producing filters this century for street cars and they've winning yearly awards since they started. K&N is really good too and honestly there probably isn't much difference in them, but Green also has different colors and stuff so you can get a filter that matches your cars color or its accent color. when i got my filter i got a red one since i plan on painting my calipers red later on. i'll tell you right now, mine is excellent quality. in fact, the end piece on the cone is some kind of metal instead of plastic like K&N. they're very solid filters.

Green Filter USA

it sure pretty ups the engine bay.