Pod Enclosure.

[cliff25gtst]

hey guys how are yas?

just gotta quick question that i need your help with, ok i am after a pod enclosure for my 33 gtst for my air pod.

i have spent some time doing a search and in one of the discussions the guy was talking about a full enclosure and a shield with no lid that partially covers the side of the pod and relies on the bonnet to be the top piece for the lid. he said that he did a temperature test and that there was no difference in having a full enclosure or a partial one,

could this be true?? could this really do the same job as a full box??

and also guys with having an enclosure do i diffenantly need a air intake that runs down to my front bar? or is it all right to just leave the open hole there left from the old piping as i have a front mount now? wil i definantly need the pipe running to my front bar or will there be enough air getting into there with out one??

thanks for the help...

[blinko]

i made a full incloseed box out of ali.... i just have the standard hole from the old panel filter box and it works fine.

[cliff25gtst]

anyone else any opinions??

the standard hole went all right then hey

[zertek]

get rid of the box... you wont notice a difference... open pod is easiest. I played around with heat shielding with my last skyline, for steet use its not really worth worrying about...

[cliff25gtst]

oh really so you think that for street use there is no need to enclose the pod hey??

so you didnt notice any differance once you got a pod shield on hey??

not worth it you reckon??

does anyone else have this opinion??

[Jay95R33]

Very worth while. It'll stop those sluggish take off's after sitting at the lights.

If you've got a spare day, then this might help

http://members.iinet.net.au/~jay77/cai/cai.zip

J

[cliff25gtst]

so you think that it is very worthwhile, anyone else got any opinions on this??

yeh that is a great diy section hey. looks good to.

so does anyone have any ideas on if a closed box actually is better then an open lid one?

[cliff25gtst]

hey guys this is a one without a lid on top and uses the bonnet to be the top kind of lid.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NISSAN-SKYLINE-R33-...1QQcmdZViewItem

would this really be as good as a full enclosure??

[Jay95R33]

That shield is about $5 worth of heat shielding foam with some rubber edging on it.

But they have the stock cold air feed feeding air to the pod which is a good thing.

I'd stick with a fully box design. The idea is to keep the hot air away from the pod and make sure the pod only sucks in cold air from outside the engine bay.

The plans I posted up (they are my plans )cost me about $20 to make and it made a noticable difference with reducing heatsoak.

J

[cliff25gtst]

hey mate sent you a pm.

yeh fully boxed i will be going.

[cliff25gtst]

well i am stil gathering whether to make a full box design or just to do the side section of it and have the bonnet closed down on it as a lid,\

at the moment i am making my cold air intake pipe should be one the car tomorrow.

then i will go for the enclosure for it,

as i said earlier one guy on here did a test and the box design and the side section both had the same temperature results,

i didnt think this would happen as i thawt the box would be much better.

[cliff25gtst]

hey guys added on my cold air intake today, just gotta make an enclosed pod box now,

cold air intake ended up costing me a measily 25 bucks. so glad that its on now. everything goes good

[SiR_RB]

unique auto sports has some nice ones avalable, and you can get a snokel for it aswell, that goes from the front bar up into the box.

[cliff25gtst]

yeh uas have em hey. they cost a fair bit but dont they