Well I guessed after the balls-up with the carbon Fibre valve cover I had to do something to re-deem myself. I think this is it. This is the prototype and looks very rough, I'll be doing a proper one this week. But with 50 miles more off a tank of gas and no ricer noise and more torque..........it's proven it can work.
Ram air induction....
This whole thing has been used a lot and in touring cars it works very well. If done properly. I found with the help of my mate that the most airflow wasn't in fact on the flat section of the bumper, it was on the top and the bottom sections, where the air flows, either over or under the car.......
I've seen guys slapping on some flashy silver discy hole on the bumper (that looks so rice) and then put the cone filter right behind it. I went one further. I took off the bling bling induction kit and the cone filter and fitted the stock airbox back into place. On top of that I fitted a highflow Simota drop in panel replacement.
Best part about this mod.................you can hardly even see it....
A bit rough, but you can see the old cut on the light that I tried before...Old bumper, soon to be replaced.
Cleaned it up a bit and I'm about to start some fibreglass work.
The section where it comes into the engine bay, this section will be cut and welded, it's important not to make this seal airtight between the airbox as if for some or other reason, you do get the nose in water, it won't hydrolock.
The back section..........that white shit is an old T-shirt.......I'll explain when I do a proper write up on the new funnel intake.
I'll let the pics speak for themselves............I've driven this is heavy rain yesterday and no water goes up the intake due to the corrugated profile of the reinforced pipe.......
More to follow on Friday.
Ram air induction....
This whole thing has been used a lot and in touring cars it works very well. If done properly. I found with the help of my mate that the most airflow wasn't in fact on the flat section of the bumper, it was on the top and the bottom sections, where the air flows, either over or under the car.......
I've seen guys slapping on some flashy silver discy hole on the bumper (that looks so rice) and then put the cone filter right behind it. I went one further. I took off the bling bling induction kit and the cone filter and fitted the stock airbox back into place. On top of that I fitted a highflow Simota drop in panel replacement.
Best part about this mod.................you can hardly even see it....
A bit rough, but you can see the old cut on the light that I tried before...Old bumper, soon to be replaced.
Cleaned it up a bit and I'm about to start some fibreglass work.
The section where it comes into the engine bay, this section will be cut and welded, it's important not to make this seal airtight between the airbox as if for some or other reason, you do get the nose in water, it won't hydrolock.
The back section..........that white shit is an old T-shirt.......I'll explain when I do a proper write up on the new funnel intake.
I'll let the pics speak for themselves............I've driven this is heavy rain yesterday and no water goes up the intake due to the corrugated profile of the reinforced pipe.......
More to follow on Friday.