Cupraloon
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Ok, so managed to get my smoothed air box fitted today, took me about half an hour all in to remove original, put the new one in and put it all back nice and tight.
With the air box, I got another air box off ebay for next to nothing (£10.00) and modded that as I didn't want to mess about with my original in case want to put it back at any time.
I removed all the ribbing inside the lid and base, and smoothed down with a drill and small grinding wheel, (don't own a dremmel) so it was relativily smoothed out, I've also slightly enlarged the inlet hole to take a silicon 3in cold air feed which I also got from ebay for about £10.00.
I hot glued the feed pipe into the airbox I had to make up a small plate out of plastic modleing card to fill the rest of the original air feed hole, cos' it's oval and the new feed is round and hot glued it all up so as to make it air and water tight, so effectivily making it a sealed air box.
I decided to run the cold air feed into the air box by about 3-4 inches as i noticed the inlet going to the maf also protrudes into the top of the air box by about the same amount, so i figured rightly or wrongly it might help the air feed if the two pipes were at the same level either side of the filter.
Ok; with the air box fitted into the car, I hooked up the open end of the cold air feed pipe onto the back of the original inlet which sits behind the left headlamp/indicater figuring there was no need to replace it, for anything better at this time, or even perhaps in the future (time will tell, if it needs it)
Having read a lot of the other threads on this I noticed j@mes had moved his to pretty much were I've put my open end and got better air flow, by doing so, so It must be ok there, also it has some thing to locate on, so no need to start making up brackets to do that..... sorted
The above pic is of the bottom of the air box in situ, and the feed pipe located on the original inlet behind left headlamp.
Then these last two, with filter fitted and the last one of the finished job
Ok then having been out for a short test drive, can't say there is much to notice in the way of performance improvement, but the original feed pipe was pretty small in comparison to the 3 in I have fitted now, and tbh, it probably could have taken a larger feed pipe but I thought the 3in was going to be adiquate.
but it's small steps to a greater cause, so when eventually I can get the car remapped, all these small improvements should help......
Well here's hopeing anyway
With the air box, I got another air box off ebay for next to nothing (£10.00) and modded that as I didn't want to mess about with my original in case want to put it back at any time.
I removed all the ribbing inside the lid and base, and smoothed down with a drill and small grinding wheel, (don't own a dremmel) so it was relativily smoothed out, I've also slightly enlarged the inlet hole to take a silicon 3in cold air feed which I also got from ebay for about £10.00.
I hot glued the feed pipe into the airbox I had to make up a small plate out of plastic modleing card to fill the rest of the original air feed hole, cos' it's oval and the new feed is round and hot glued it all up so as to make it air and water tight, so effectivily making it a sealed air box.
I decided to run the cold air feed into the air box by about 3-4 inches as i noticed the inlet going to the maf also protrudes into the top of the air box by about the same amount, so i figured rightly or wrongly it might help the air feed if the two pipes were at the same level either side of the filter.
Ok; with the air box fitted into the car, I hooked up the open end of the cold air feed pipe onto the back of the original inlet which sits behind the left headlamp/indicater figuring there was no need to replace it, for anything better at this time, or even perhaps in the future (time will tell, if it needs it)
Having read a lot of the other threads on this I noticed j@mes had moved his to pretty much were I've put my open end and got better air flow, by doing so, so It must be ok there, also it has some thing to locate on, so no need to start making up brackets to do that..... sorted
The above pic is of the bottom of the air box in situ, and the feed pipe located on the original inlet behind left headlamp.
Then these last two, with filter fitted and the last one of the finished job
Ok then having been out for a short test drive, can't say there is much to notice in the way of performance improvement, but the original feed pipe was pretty small in comparison to the 3 in I have fitted now, and tbh, it probably could have taken a larger feed pipe but I thought the 3in was going to be adiquate.
but it's small steps to a greater cause, so when eventually I can get the car remapped, all these small improvements should help......
Well here's hopeing anyway
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so won't know if there's an improvement or not 
