Received my Raceland induction kit a few days ago, but I had to re do some brackets and stuff today so got some fitting pictures. To start off with, the engine bay before I started:
The box of goodies that arrived in the post:
Getting the standard airbox and piping out of the way:
So had a few trial fitments to see where I wanted everything to sit, first time I tried fitting it it sat a bit high in the engine bay and not being bracketed down has rubbed a tiny bit on the bonnet
The K&N filter fits inside the airbox nice and snug:
So then I bolted up the casing all nice and tight with new stainless nuts and bolts courtesy of Screwfix!
And onto the fitting, the kit came with one dodgy bent metal bracket but it wasn't dodgy enough on its own, so I decided I needed two! A couple of shelf brackets did fine:
And when fitted held the airbox nice and tight without rubbing on anything. Due to it touching the bonnet and marking the top before I decided to mount it a little bit lower and spaced out slightly from the slam panel, I can always adjust it later if I need to though.
All on:
Which just left the power steering reservoir left to sort, so I decided to modify the bracket and bolt it to the new Raceland mount I'd made.
None of it looks overly pretty but it's all rock solid, well put together and should hopefully do the job. I'm not going for looks really I just want something I can put round a track reliably, looking forward to getting finished.
Can't say I've noticed a massive increase in performance having fitted it, the throttle response seems a bit sharper but that could just be the massive amount of extra noise fooling me
Either way it seems to be doing the job so I'm quite pleased
Next up will be fitting the GTI 6 brakes on the front when they arrive.