CAI solution?
07-12-2005, 06:18 PM
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seen it in catalogues : )
i was thinking about making a 'short ram intake' for my car
going off of the MAF, making a bend, moving diagonally closer to the headlight, another bend and placing the filter as close to the head light as possible...
i know it's tight down there, and last time i looked there's the windshield washer reservoir and the ABS stuff jammed in that area.
But i think that maybe i can fit an HKS style mushroom filter behind the headlight if i can fit it there, or as close to as possible ..and then go from then on.
Thinking about this i c a few issues:
1- space for a filter (Which is why i'm thinking of going with the mushroom filter).
2- Heat from the radiator as the intake passes right in front of it, and if you take a 90 degree bend out the MAF/MAS then you stay farther from the heat but you have a worse bend right there, and possibly another 90 going towards the front of the car to find a place for the filter.
3-turbulance, the older SLK (R170) had that hesitation problem because of turbulance in the MAS which was amplified when pullied. So now i'm going to take a perfectly running stock car, with a straight shot intake, and add a bend RIGHT before the mas and hope that it's unturbulant enough to make it work right .
ideas:
45 degree bend, straight 45 degree bend, mushroom filter.
Relocate stock 'ram air duct' on the driver's side of the bay feeding in front of the filter
utelize a filter heat shield to pretect the filter from the radiator heat
instead of using pipe to build the intake, use silicone coupling and silicone tubing ? (will it collapse) because it will heat up less than metal ?
instead i guess u could build the whole thing out of metal and wrap it with reflective shielding which is what you're talking about.
-nuke
i was thinking about making a 'short ram intake' for my car
going off of the MAF, making a bend, moving diagonally closer to the headlight, another bend and placing the filter as close to the head light as possible...
i know it's tight down there, and last time i looked there's the windshield washer reservoir and the ABS stuff jammed in that area.
But i think that maybe i can fit an HKS style mushroom filter behind the headlight if i can fit it there, or as close to as possible ..and then go from then on.
Thinking about this i c a few issues:
1- space for a filter (Which is why i'm thinking of going with the mushroom filter).
2- Heat from the radiator as the intake passes right in front of it, and if you take a 90 degree bend out the MAF/MAS then you stay farther from the heat but you have a worse bend right there, and possibly another 90 going towards the front of the car to find a place for the filter.
3-turbulance, the older SLK (R170) had that hesitation problem because of turbulance in the MAS which was amplified when pullied. So now i'm going to take a perfectly running stock car, with a straight shot intake, and add a bend RIGHT before the mas and hope that it's unturbulant enough to make it work right .
ideas:
45 degree bend, straight 45 degree bend, mushroom filter.
Relocate stock 'ram air duct' on the driver's side of the bay feeding in front of the filter
utelize a filter heat shield to pretect the filter from the radiator heat
instead of using pipe to build the intake, use silicone coupling and silicone tubing ? (will it collapse) because it will heat up less than metal ?
instead i guess u could build the whole thing out of metal and wrap it with reflective shielding which is what you're talking about.
-nuke
07-12-2005, 07:12 PM
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'06 Lexus GS300 RWD, '07 Camry SE V6 auto, '91 190E 2.6 auto
Aren't the two stock locations for air intake on this chassis PERFECT for a CAI?
What is the point of putting the filter at the "front" of the CAI as I have seen in so many applications? I had assumed it had been placed there because the filter being used was too big to fit in the stock airbox. Do you do away w/ the stock airbox w/ a CAI?
What is the point of putting the filter at the "front" of the CAI as I have seen in so many applications? I had assumed it had been placed there because the filter being used was too big to fit in the stock airbox. Do you do away w/ the stock airbox w/ a CAI?
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