Making A Professional Heatsheild/pod Cover/air Box At Cost!

[D.I.Y. Mik]

This is how mine ended up.

used heatgun to mould it and foil backed foam for insulation from the motor

top is clear so i can see how dirty its getting, also dont need insulation there

[madman_rocks]

Hey

Looks good but my pod bolts right on to my AFM so I don't really have Hosing that it can go around

[D.I.Y. Mik]

same here, thats why i used a mixing bowl and a heatgun to shape where it goes in.

look closer at the second pic, see i put the afm right in there.

heres another one, with it installed

[williamst619]

Looks awesome mate how have people gone with screwing the cover on or have you just left to sit in

[roosterwfyu]

JBonDSS, I get heaps of air because I also have a CAI I made... you can check out that tutorial too

Obvesouly there will always be air going to ur pod, if it was indeed air tight, your car qould seize up, so no matter how much you think your headlights seal off air, they never could completly....

In terms of air, you are assuming I have a spare Intercooler hole in there under the heatsheild? My car came as a non turbo....so I had no holes to begin with....I turboed it so We had to make one hole for the FMIC ... then for my CAI.. I had to make another 1... it is so easy...and I know about the legalities of this... but you cannot see inside the tinted perspex... and know one knows...

Power wise I didn't really notice much difference with the heatsheild by itself... with the heatsheild AND a CAI... i have noticed a fair bit more torque at top end... which is fun you can tell it works well because you can get out of the car, whip open your bonnet and feel the heatsheild on the inner side and its cool.... while the rest of ur engine is at 80+

Adam

wow i am really intersted to see if there was a change on the dyno, i was under the impression that cai had no effect on turbo engines because as soon as it hits the compressor it heats up thats where the intercooler comes to play

it looks mint thought mate, you should make a few up and sell em off

[Hanaldo]

Yeh a CAI isn't going to make any difference to your power figure. Where they do help, is with heat soak. Do a few hot laps around a track and a good heatshield/CAI will help slow the heat soak of the system.

[34GeeTeeTee]

Yeh a CAI isn't going to make any difference to your power figure. Where they do help, is with heat soak. Do a few hot laps around a track and a good heatshield/CAI will help slow the heat soak of the system.

Ran my car on the dyno over and over on the weekend and no heatsoak issues, ran within 1hp of the power figure.... Airbox was warm but did the job!

[Hanaldo]

Yep, that's where they work well. But you're not gonna pick up any power by bolting one on.

[34GeeTeeTee]

Yep, that's where they work well. But you're not gonna pick up any power by bolting one on.

Nope not at all

[madman_rocks]

hey just finished mine its 1mm aluminium bent and cut to the shape I needed with a rubber door edge one top and just some U edge around the shape

[suwidji]

^ looks neat with the aluminium.

How did you go about bending the aluminium? I want to make mine out of it, but i don't know how to bend it without an actual metal bender lol. Otherwise, i'd have to opt for the perspex one, which also doesn't look bad