I am ordering my Injen CAI with 2 colors to choose from (black and Polished) I have a FM tC. A friend of mine says that Polished is hard to keep clean I was just wanting some opinions on what you guys think that would look best.

 

Depends one what else you'll be doing... if you're going to have a theme... but I think if you have a dark car, the black would look pretty good. Then again, polished is polished.

 

The engine theme will probably be blue. Of course either finish will go with every color. I need to decide before tomorrow because I already ordered polished I need to get with TRDSparks and change my order if I decide to go with black. Thanks man, Happy Birthday!

 

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I am going to go with polished cause I think instead of blue I am going to use some carbon fiber accents under the hood and then light it in blue. So I think the polished intake will make everything pop better.

 

Would it be possible to Brillo pad the intake to give it more a stainless look that would be awesome. I would probably have to have it clear coated afterwards to prevent rusting but I think it would be bad azz if I could do that. It would look more like the block and all of the surrounding parts. I have seen it done on Exile Choppers but I'm not sure if it will work on the intake and it is a big risk to take if it doesn't work. So if anyone knows anything about this please let me know.

 

was it that hard to pick a color?

 

lol

 

or you could just go pink....

i my pink intake!

 

Isn't that tC missing something?

 

^^what?? your's didn't come like that??

 

it better have...that's how mine came off the truck ^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

This one's a "pick-your-poison" decision.

1. Polished will look nice but will be hard to keep polished.
2. Black will look nice but will be hard to keep clean because it will show dust/dirt.

Stick with the polished. It will look good on FM.

 

Im going to go with the Black Injen CAI when i get mine. I like things simple and not *Blingin* But thats just me, and anyways my car is SuperWhite, im going with the White/Black theme. CF with some other Black accents added in there.

 

I'm not a huge fan of the Bling Bling either that is why I was asking if it was possible to Brillo pad it to take some of the polish out of it and then possibly clear coat it.

 

Either that or I am also thinking about getting some Carbon Fiber Vinyl and just doing a wrap on it I can't decide, it should be here Monday in Polished so I will have to decide.

 

I wanted the black but decided to go with the polished only because of the difficulty installing the cold air portion of the intake. I scratched the crap out of the polished one but it's no big deal. If it had been black I would have had some nice chunks of missing paint on the pipe. If it wasn't so difficult to do without scratching, I would recommend the black over polished in a heartbeat.

 

I WENT WITH THE POLISHED! IT WAS RATHER DIFFICULT TI INSTALL WITHOUT SCATCHING IT A BIT.

 

Yea, I was super carefull with my polished intake and it still got some scratches. I think that if I would of installed the edge protector prior to the install it could have eliminated the posibility of scratches -Hindsight is always 20/20...

 

Yep I was thinking the same thing afterwards. I DID try to get that silly strip of rubber in place but it got the best of me. I only got a little scratch. I went with polished. Looks nice.