i'm in my garage....installing a sri in my 2000 protege 1.6L...i cant figure the damn thing out!!!

 

sri can be tricky. some of them have you pull all of the stock piping off and some of them only have you pull a little off. what brand is the one that you have? i would go ahead and pull all of the stock intake piping and airbox off all of the way back to the intake manifold and try the intake a couple of different ways (backwards, upside down, every direction that you can) and see if everything looks right in one way.