When I had the front bumper off today, I was having a little bit of a think re getting some more cool air into the system. What I want to know is if the following is likely to work:
If I attach an additional pipe through the location marked in the picture above and have it fed directly from the airflow through the front grill, will it provide a benefit. Im not thinking of shutting much of the front grill off just enough for a 7cm odd pipe (so hopefully shouldnt effect the radiator too much). If I attach it to the existing air cleaner pipe, it can suck additional air from the standard location as well.
Would this work, or is it just a waste of time. I have an ARC box in place of the standard air cleaner.
In short, yes, poking a hole in that box would provide another inlet to your intake filter, and as we all know, the quicker the air gets there, the better.
You would probably also get some sought of whistling noise at high speeds as so much air tries to get into such a small hole.
Why mitsubishi decided to curve the stock intake like that I have NFI....but they must have been on crack to think that's efficient.
Comes in from the side at the top centre (follow the pipe up). In other words, there is no forced air, it sucks it from under the bonnet which ultimately is warm.
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I already done that, its just tuck away nicely so no one can tell heehhee
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Thats similar to what I was looking at. I thought that if I inserted a right angle pipe (where the red arrow is in the original pic I posted) facing the grill (as in the pic above), it would work. Sounds like its better to re-run the pipe completely though due to restrictions. I quite like what Boris has done too (link above) as it probably would force more air into the box.
PS, dont mind that bodykit on the front of that thing - what is it???
Got into a bit of a mess here - I think we all sent posts at the same time. Updated mine so makes a little more sense.
Last edited by dstocks on Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:34 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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if your refering to my pic, its a bozzspeed front. ive seen those pipes in my pic sold on ebay for like 70$. dunno how good they would be though. though it looks like boris's design would get a lot more air in to the filter
