doing the opositte

[williamsvts]

everyone bangs on about enclosed filter.
but im going to get a big cossie cone filter and make some piping up to get it near the slam panel, then make a heat sheild.
imo, this could work better than an enclosed kit.
what you think?

[Scott]

could do the trick nicely depending ont eh heat shield, Tam has a decent air damn for his ax.

THough my procomp will do me nicely:P

[bullit]

scott im sure i outbidded you on a procomp a while back
williams the slam panel will need hacking

[Scott]

you probably did i did bid on 2 i think on ebay:P

[bullit]

lol, i didnt want to go that much but hey. i think your ebay name was scottsaxp or near, glad you got one

[Scott]

aye got it for a great price from a lad on here and from ssc so all was good, fantastic noise from it to:D

[williamsvts]

why will i need to hack slam panel? depends where i put it.

[bullit]

there only a small gap isnt there

[williamsvts]

i will have all the area where airbox was and in front of battery, plenty of room to fit a filter in.

[riggsy]

could do the trick nicely depending ont eh heat shield, Tam has a decent air damn for his ax.

THough my procomp will do me nicely:P

Lucky fucker and abit of a show off lol :P

[craig180]

I was thinking of doing something similar with mine, but moving the filter to the inside of the front bumper where the fogs go. I would need to run the pipework past the rad or take a section of the slam pannel away and feed the pipe through where the second fan is in the vts

[williamsvts]

wouldnt it get wet down there though?

[Dan]

Would be interesting to see how it would do.

[argylefan1985]

Im currently working on an idea along those lines, want to move mine down behind the fog lights with kinda like well... what can only be described as a housing for the cone, so it will be nearly an enclosed one.

[hesslevtr]

cammedvtr has something like this

he has a heat shield but think it only fits when he has no headlight in

[Scott]

Tams supercharged ax from ssc:
http://images14.fotki.com/v370/photos/8/81114/4387553/bitmap21017-vi.jpg

[argylefan1985]

i love the bonet stand! lol bit bit of wood lovely lol

[craig180]

wouldnt it get wet down there though?

Pretty sure it would but not sure how it would affect performance???

[Dan]

Tams supercharged ax from ssc:
http://images14.fotki.com/v370/photos/8/81114/4387553/bitmap21017-vi.jpg


What figures is that pushing out?

[VTS_16v_Boy]

At the end of the day All filters regardless of type, size, brand or location all suffer from the same problem . . .

Gettin enough COLD air to the filter.

Scoops are find in theroy but IMO (Ive had one so I would know) the scoop bolts flush to the slam panel and only draws cold air through Two Tiny holes in the slam panel, so although they are protected from heat soak they can not draw enough cold air untill upto speed and cold air is being forced into the scoop.

IMO a open cone with a decent cold air feed is better day to day. But thats only IMO.

Race inspirerd 'Cold Air Box' systems are truley the way forward for maximum power gains but space is always an issue.

The REAL power gains are not in the filter its self but more importantly in how the cold air is delivered to the filter which will unlock the most power.

:-) Rant over (Sorry)

[williamsvts]

i have now had:
standard airbox
above with KN panel
then piperX cone filter
BMC
simota/green combo

now want to stick an open cone as near to the front or the car as i can, maybe behind the passenger headlight.

[VTS_16v_Boy]

Has anyone considered moving the battery to the boot like a Mk1 Escort Mexico then you would have all that free space to construct a 'Cold Air Box' (Racecar style) with somekinda cold air feed.

Battery takes up alot of space under the bonnet of any car not just the Sax.

[ets2k9]

There's an ax with some kind of a homemade air box it looks like a good plan....so I think you have a good point Mr vts boy.

[craig180]

Has anyone considered moving the battery to the boot like a Mk1 Escort Mexico then you would have all that free space to construct a 'Cold Air Box' (Racecar style) with somekinda cold air feed.

Battery takes up alot of space under the bonnet of any car not just the Sax.

My battery is getting moved to the well behind the passenger seat!
Can't see it making much of a difference to how the cold air feed works though

[ets2k9]

http://images20.fotki.com/v364/photos/8/81114/4387553/tam1-vi.jpg

seem like a good idea to me

[craig180]

Yeah, that's a big cone with a titanic heat shield - but where does it get the cold air from???

[ets2k9]

The headlight is removed.

[ets2k9]

acts as a feed actually.

[craig180]

acts as a feed actually.

Ah, very clever! Not sure the local Blob would take kindly though!

[ets2k9]

http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/2000/dsc0132psub1.jpg