Making An Air Box For Your Pod.

[lingeringsoul]

Hi all

I had just spent the entire afternoon making myself an enclosed box for my pod filter and I thought I'd share it with you.

Find yourself a couple of sheet of cardboard and start making your design. Obviously there are plenty of templates out there on the net but no one seems to have any measurement so you'll going to have to draw free hand. The top cover is the easy part as all you need is the general shape and it should be pretty straight forward. The partition part is the more difficult one as you need to cut the cardboard piece by piece as you gauge how well it's fitting. Just remember you allow holes for the pipes. See below for shapes

Once thats done you can use it as a template and copy it onto a sheet of Aluminium. You can get these sheets from you local Bunnings for $25, 0.5mm X 600 X 900 I think. You can try to get the thicker one if you wish but if you don't have professional cutting tools like me, 0.5mm is probably the best thickness to use. It's thin enough for you to cut and thick enough to be useful.

Once you've traced the shape then start cutting away. For me I decided to use the tin snips because I did not have a good work bench with vice grips for me to work with. The only problem with tin snips is that you can't cut round shapes and with great difficulty I managed to break them off and filed it down.

Now comes the most difficult part, cutting holes in the middle for the pipe. I chose a shape that required only cutting one square hole in for the air flow meter and a half circle at the bottom for the other pipe. Most design will have a few extra holes for the charcoal canister etc etc .........well, I couldn't be bothered so I bent the whole sheet to wrap around the two canister rather than have a piece going through.

Once you've cut the whole lot, bend whatever you need to and fit the box on. It doesn't hurt to cross your fingers as sometimes things don't go as you planned and a lot of cursing will follow. Have some nuts and bolts handy to tighten the two pieces up.

I'm fairly certain you can slide the metal under the charcoal canister bracket and the headlight bracket so that it doesn't bend your shiny looking panel when you tighten the screws but I didn't really care. It wasn't going to win the design of the year award so I just left it on the top and had it bent when the screws were tightened.

[anfo]

good work dude looks awesome

might give this ago these holidays lets see how my wonky measuring abilities go lol

[benm]

You can get these sheets from you local Bunnings for $25, 0.5mm X 600 X 900 I think.

Take your cardboard templates to your local metal fabricator and they will supply and cut the material for $25 with the proper tools.

I was going to start my templates today until I realised my car is at my mechanics

[dori34]

nice writeup mate but i rekon a hi flowing panel filter & good CAI with the stock airbox ftw