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Just fitted a temp gauge with a sensor mounted next to the pod filter, driving at night, stopping at lights it reached a max temp of 65.5 degrees, hate to think what temps i'd get being stuck in traffic in midday :D

CAI is now priority one :)

Anyone get similar temps???

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theirs an easy solution to this, make up an alluminium shroud and place it just behind ur front bar, dont block off the radiator if u can and then run some ducting from the shroud to the front of ur pod. or perhaps just case the pod off because it sounds like ur getting heat soak

A CAI isn't much good if your pod isn't heat shielded.

While a CAI might help drop inlet temperatures once you've picked up speed, it won't do much in stop-start traffic and you'll still get some heat soak.

I've used one of those laser spot temp things, and after a fair weather session at Wakefield there's been a 15-20 degree differential between the engine side of my heat shield, and the metal ring on my pod.

This is what my setup looks like:

20041221_cai_03.jpg

(The other side of the flex pipe is in the front air dam, so its directly in the airflow)

However, around town there's not much in it. While I haven't measured it properly, touching the heat shield and the pod's ring doesn't bring up a noticable difference when I get home after going to the shops.

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Isaac, if you still have your Airbox, Cut a hole in the side of that for the Piping from your Pod to the Turbo, and Stick some heat proof shield stuff on the inside if you can. That may help with the heat issue. But yeh as intensevil said, it sounds like heat soak.

If you are that worried about it just swap your pod back to the factory airbox. I swapped my HKS Pod filter for a factory airbox with K&N Panel filter and couldn't notice any change at all (and neither could a dyno).

The other good thing about a factory box is that it's perfectly legal unlike an open pod filter.

Yeah i treat shielding as part of CAI, so gunna do both and measure the results.

Still have the stock airbox but no snorkel, so it pretty much would still be gulping hot hot air (remember the airbox inlet is on the engine side aswell).

It doesnt help much that my turbo doesn't have a heat shield too, might get one of those turbo bags..

i just got made up a heat shield from aluminium from bunnings covered the engine side and the top of the filter, and with the old hole from the stock cooler i ran some flexy tube stuff fromt that hole to the meshed vent in my front bar.

ben...

the temperature of the pod filter itself and air intake will be different to the temp of the air being sucked into it. of course being in the engine bay the air will be much hotter than ambient air but if your temp probe is attached to the pod filter or intake piping etc then it will be showing the surface temp rater than the air temp.

the temperature of the pod filter itself and air intake will be different to the temp of the air being sucked into it. of course being in the engine bay the air will be much hotter than ambient air but if your temp probe is attached to the pod filter or intake piping etc then it will be showing the surface temp rater than the air temp.

Temp sensor is mounted in the surrounding space of the pod filter, not attached to anything bar a long cable tie used to 'hold' the sensor in the airstream about 3cm back from the probe, its at least 3cm from the pod itself and probably at least 10cm from anything metal (piping, engine bay etc..) so reading is as accurate as i could make it..

i hope you didnt move your AFM with it...

If you did, therefore changing the amount of air between the AFM and intake, then your computer is reading the wrong thing that the AFM is tellin it.

cheers

nah mate, the AFM its an air flow metering device, it only measures air when its flowing through it, so it doesnt matter if you have it closer or further away from the throttle body as its still measureing the same amount of air.

hope this clears this up

after putting a POD on my car, i noticed it was smooth/quicker reving at HIGH revs, but low down is really really bad and slow... i want to go back to the factory box.

and i think a factory box with a high flow panel is perfectly good untill you start making some real high hp

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