How to Install a Pipeline on a Chevy Camaro

I am Chris Duke and today on Motorz I am going to show you how to install the pipeline from Fastlane on a 2010 Camaro SS. The reason why you probably haven't seen much Aftermarket Editorial on the new 2010 Chevy Camaro, is because there is only been out there a couple of months. There are only a few companies at this time who have manufactured products. One of them is Fastlane Incorporated based out of Houston, Texas. They have been aggressively developing performance products for the new Camaro. And the first they have released is called the Pipeline Cold Air Intake specifically for the new Camaro SS. Now the SS comes standard with the 6.2-liter V8 that produces 426 horsepower and 420 foot-pounds of torque, but the OEM intake system filling this massive engine is fairly restrictive still. Adding a Cold Air Intake system helps increase air-flow through the engine resulting in more horsepower and torque, which is ultimately what we want. "The Pipeline" cold air intake kit comes with two aluminum pipes, a dry air filter and a new windshield washer reservoir and relocation bracket, because we're going to have to move the stock one. It also comes with all the hose clamps you need as well as the hose adapters. For this installation, you're going to need a Low Profile Floor Jack as well as the jack stands, some dikes, some ratchets with some extensions, a 15 mm socket as well as a 10 mm deep and short socket. A 13 mm and a half-inch wrench, a 5/16" nut driver and a couple of Torx bits. Disconnect the battery which is located in the trunk using a 10 mm socket. Now, before you actually install the pipeline, you have to get your PCM, or your car's computer programmed, and for that, we overnighted this PCM to Fastlane Incorporated in Houston, Texas, which is another service that they offer. Once they programmed it, they FedExed it back to us. Now we can put it back in the car and continue the installation. To remove the PCM from the car, look over here by the fusebox on the passenger side. It's kind of hanging off here. Just take these two connections and lift them up. You need to wiggle them off. Once you've got them off, PCM is actually just going to hanging on here with some clips on the back, so just kind of pull it off, and once you have done that pop up these little tabs on this side. Now you can take the PCM out and wrap that up and send it off. Jack up your car, because the first thing that we need to do is we need to replace the stock washer fluid reservoir with this new one that Fastlane provides you. So to start, take this hose and unhook it right up here by the hood hinge, it's in two spots, just kind of unhook it right there. And then there is another spot way in here. There are three 13 mm bolts that you need to remove at the bottom of the reservoir. There is two in the front and there is one in the rear. Once you've removed those, then you could attach the water pump. Before we remove the washer reservoir, we have to remove the whole entire stock air box. To do that, there is two 10 mm nuts, there is one here, there is one right over there. Next thing you want to do is remove the mass air flow sensor that just hops right off. And then take a screwdriver or a nut driver and loosen this hose clamp right there. And then finally over here on the other side, there is a hose, we got to pop that up. With your stock air intake removed, you can go ahead and way go out your stock reservoir as well. Now keep in mind that this holds about a gallon worth of fluid whereas the new one only holds three pints. So disconnect this hose from the pump with your finger, then take it over and fill up your new reservoir. Male Speaker: Partz, brought to you by Hellwig Products, quality suspension products for over 60 years. Chris Duke: Moving fluids from one container to another can often get quite messy especially when you're dealing with big containers like this. Well, thankfully, Fast Funnel has created a solution. I have got two different sizes of a paper, one time use disposable funnel. All you've got to do is open them up, insert it into your reservoir, and pour it on there. Remove the stock pump from the reservoir, just by pulling it straight on out. Attach the new pump clamp provided by Fastlane to the new reservoir bracket, insert your pump, then tighten it down. We choose to use a bolt, but you can also use a rivet. Now take your new reservoir bracket and place it over the 6 mm stud on the driver's side, and tighten it back down with 10 mm deep socket. Dropping your new reservoir and then you're going to need to cut a section of the tubing that goes from the cap to the bottom of the pump. Then you're going to have this that comes from the hood, you're going to need to connect that to the side of the pump. Once you're done with that, you're going to have a bunch of extra bit of tube. We're going to need to take that, connect it to the bottom of the cap, goes in down and through reservoir. We need to connect this back up to the pump, but as you can see it's pretty short down here. So we really took it out this wire out a little bit, so you can see it. What we need to do actually is cut a little bit of this tape back here. It's going to free it up, now to give this the room, so we can bring that up to the pump. Most cold air intakes place the filter just off to the side in the engine compartment. But the Pipeline is different than it tucks way down here behind the front bumper that results in colder air coming up into the engine. Now before we install these pipes, we need to take the mass air sensor of the stock pipe and put it into the pipeline. Go ahead and install the air filter at the end of the long tube using one of the hose clamps they provide. Now we'll go ahead and replace. We're going to mount it later using one of the stock bolts we removed earlier from that reservoir to the frame reel. Just go ahead and wiggle that in the place. Next thing you're going to want to do is remove this 15 mm bolt off the cylinder head, that's going to be used as the mounting point for the bracket on the other tube. Install both of these hose adapters to the 90 degree pipe. Now here is a tip on this one here, the smaller diameter end goes on the pipe, and if you have trouble getting that on, use some soapy water and leave this out in a sun to warm it up a little bit. Then you want to connect both of these pipes together and clamp them down to provide a hose clamp. Reconnect the mass air flow sensor to the bottom of the pipe and then connect it to the throttle body. Once you've done that, you could reinstall the 15 mm bolt to the cylinder head as well as the 13 mm bolt that's down there on the frame reel. Then finally, hook up your PCV valve there and tighten down all your hose clamps. To reinstall your PCM on the Camaro, just insert it back into this black housing here. Then re-clip it on to this side, those black tabs, just like that, and then put the two connections back on, just push on, like this, push that down until it locks in the place. Now reconnect your battery and fire it up. As one of the first performance accessories available for new Camaro, we are impressed with these of installation and the horsepower improvements. Now since there is an a hand-held program available at this time, you do have to ship your PCM off the Fastlane to be custom tuned. Now for more information such as Dyno Results and to purchase the Pipeline, go to Fastlane's website at www.fastlaneincorporated.com. And of course for more of our How to Videos, check out our website. We'll catch you later. The reason why you probably haven't seen much Aftermarket Editorial on a new 2010. The reason why you probably haven't seen much Aftermarket Editorial on a new -- They've been aggressively developing performance products for the new Camaro and the first one, the first they have developed -- There is an all the hose clamps that you need. And I forgot about the air filter. Why is this all here so tight -- oh! Damn, brother. Male Speaker: Tell somebody.