Drilling your airbox?

mattyprice4004 · 6 Mar 2009 at 23:38

agw_01 said:
No, it was a dig!

You get used to it!

Haha, I should be by now

Sorry to hear about the turbo too, glad I wasn't stuck behind you

See, a GT15 on an L is where it's at, balls to your T series rubbish

MrKeeno · 6 Mar 2009 at 23:50

Tim said:
Yeah good plan, be sure to only drive the car in a dust free environment too :/

I was only worried about making it louder, dust was not a concern. Ahh those where the days.

loltim · 6 Mar 2009 at 23:51

busman said:
I was only worried about making it louder, dust was not a concern. Ahh those where the days.

What about leaves, and rocks

mattyprice4004 · 6 Mar 2009 at 23:53

Tim said:
What about leaves, and rocks

I did about 5000 miles without one, I took it off from the inlet manifold. Those were the days - diesel at idle, and sonic boom horrible noise at high revs.

Long live none-turbo diesels!

MrKeeno · 7 Mar 2009 at 00:01

When I look back it was a bloody stupid thing to do, but so was spending nearly 3k on bucket seats, bodykit, alloys, lowering kit, get the picture?

jongeeone · 7 Mar 2009 at 01:38

Try a hole saw set, get some proper good holes in it.

Lum · 7 Mar 2009 at 03:49

agw_01 said:
No, it was a dig!

You get used to it!

Part dig, part serious.

There are some cars out there where the intake is very carefully tuned for best performance and playing with it causes problems. Subarus, for example, are like this but even on them it's more to do with making the MAF sensor read correctly than anything else.

Most manufacturers don't really bother, and assuming this thread is about the car in the OPs signature, a 2 litre diesel Rover 400 series, I doubt they bothered.

Dogbreath · 7 Mar 2009 at 13:05

Gaverick said:
Indeed, meaning the intake temperature really has little bearing on the matter.

Don't be silly, the hotter the air entering the intercooler, the hotter it comes out. It;s not a magical device that always cools air to the same temperature.

mattyprice4004 · 8 Mar 2009 at 02:21

Lum said:
Part dig, part serious.

There are some cars out there where the intake is very carefully tuned for best performance and playing with it causes problems. Subarus, for example, are like this but even on them it's more to do with making the MAF sensor read correctly than anything else.

Most manufacturers don't really bother, and assuming this thread is about the car in the OPs signature, a 2 litre diesel Rover 400 series, I doubt they bothered.

Fair point, if their budget for the clutch system on the ZS180 was anything to go by I'll expect the intake to be made of toilet roll tubes

Need to re-jig my whole intake but bank balance says otherwise