Is it worthwhile drilling holes in airbox ? (Saph cossie)

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02-10-2007, 03:17 PM

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Is it worthwhile drilling holes in airbox ?

not if you're just going to suck in hot air.

so the plastic box is actually good at keeping hot air out?

yes - if it's fitted with the proper ducting that takes a cold air feed from the front grille (which is quite small and could be restrictive at higher than standard power)

personally, i would cut out the bottom of the box and a corresponding hole in the inner wing (with additional coarse filtration and water trapping measures) and use the high pressure air in the wheel arch to feed the panel filter with a large opening to that area from the front bumper

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02-10-2007, 03:44 PM

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mike, do either of the carbon airbox lids you do for the 2wd base, take a t34 size hose? or is one standard t3 and the other t4?

This one does

. However, if you had looked at my website you would have seen that

Also, how about this to help spice up the engine bay?

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02-10-2007, 03:51 PM

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Have you tried it yet m8.

Not yet

I discovered that there is something pulling my cambelt onto the front edge of the pulleys and fraying the edge of it on the crank pulley so until that is sorted I can't drive it

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02-10-2007, 04:03 PM

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mike, i did look on the website but didnt see those pictures.

yeah im sure they would help, wouldnt really help the bank balance though.

Give me a special price on splitter, lid, heatshield, and full cambelt cover pls

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02-10-2007, 04:05 PM

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chop it to bits................i got an airbox off Dave (cos 22)...it was concours...

.i even sent him pics after i chopped the whole front off it.................it even had back to black on the inside........

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02-10-2007, 04:31 PM

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Splitter:
http://www.randbmotorsport.co.uk/sho...?ProductID=315

Lid:
http://www.randbmotorsport.co.uk/sho...?ProductID=143

Heatshield:
http://www.randbmotorsport.co.uk/sho...?ProductID=283

Cambelt cover:
http://www.randbmotorsport.co.uk/sho...?ProductID=103

You forgot something

:
http://www.randbmotorsport.co.uk/sho...?ProductID=152

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02-10-2007, 05:29 PM

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chop it to bits................i got an airbox off Dave (cos 22)...it was concours...

.i even sent him pics after i chopped the whole front off it.................it even had back to black on the inside........

what do you think you're achieving with that poxy squashed up corrugated pipe?

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02-10-2007, 10:14 PM

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so rather than drilling holes some people have just cut that big trianlge shape of the side of the air box?

anyone tested it?

Yes, AVA and it reduced the vaccum that was being created in Euan's airbox until he started to up the boost even more, and then the lid still started to collapse, so this is why he made his airbox bigger.

Mike is right...the lid of my box used to get sucked down until we cut the FULL fron off the bottom of the box.

Only thing we notced after doing this was that alot of radiant heat was now being sucked in from the back o fthe rad.

We blocked up the orginal square inatke in the box and made a sheild to stop this and bonded it to the back of the head light..

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02-10-2007, 10:16 PM

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new set up...

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03-10-2007, 05:34 AM

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chop it to bits................i got an airbox off Dave (cos 22)...it was concours...

.i even sent him pics after i chopped the whole front off it.................it even had back to black on the inside........

what do you think you're achieving with that poxy squashed up corrugated pipe?

......better than nothing u morron..........

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03-10-2007, 06:59 AM

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ive had the front and underneath drilled out of mine since i had it,tried a cone but it was shite.response was done and i hate the induction suck tbh.

every turbo'd car bar my pulsar has had a drilled box.