Here's another pic...
I greatly apologize to everyone! This sux but for some reason no matter how many pics I attached while in "manage attachments" and then click "submit", only the first pic attached posts to thread!
Anyway... If u want more pics, I can send them. Basically I took out all of that unnecessary plastic that make up the air ports to the left and right of the radiator and then removed the horn components (which I will run more wire and simply relocate).
I checked to make sure and both of my cone filters fit in front of the radiator on both sides of the hood latch. Today I am going to go and purchase the tubing needed to connect the stock air tubes coming off of the engine cover to my two cone filters and with the addition of some extra configuring, I think I will have a pretty decent and efficient CAI for my N/A '05 XFire (this is assuming one has removed the stock air filters inside the engine cover)...
I'm open to suggestions as to what material to construct the two induction tubes/hoses out of. I only need approx 7-8" on both sides to connect the cone to the stock tubes. Obvi it will have to be a 3" opening to fit into the connector for each cone and then I am going to have to figure out how to go from that into the smaller, oval/oblong shape of that stock tubing which fits through the opening. I was actually thinking of just hammering down a section of regular 3" air pipe to where it fits through the opening and can either connect to the stock tubes coming off the engine cover or doing the same and then connecting and running the same tubing/pipe/hose/whatever u want to call it to the engine cover and eliminating that stock plastic tubing...