heatshield for POD filter

[Roy]

peice of stainless steel about 2mm thick

Forget stainless, at 2mm it is pretty heavy stuff, and a real bastard to work with due to the tensile strength of the stuff (Have you tried drilling it yet?)

Go to a place like Smart Aluminium, they have a minimum invoice value of $10 and that gets you plenty of scrap aluminium sheet to make ducting for around ICs, filters etc etc.

[Sydneykid]

Hi guys, as I tell everone who asks, a POD with no heat shield and no ambient air feed is costing power and therefore is a wate of money.

Remember 8 degrees celsius lower engine inlet air temperature = 5% more horsepower. So if the ambient air temperature is 20 degrees and your POD is sucking hot air from the radiator and/or the turbo and it's at 44 degrees, it's costing you 15%. That's 230 rwkw versus 200 rwkw.

For those who don't have a shield and air feed, when you get the dyno run, make sure you do one with the bonnet closed, it might change your mind. I am really sick and tired of seeing articles in magazines with pictures of cars with POD's just stuck in the engine bay. In our climate it's a joke.

Sorry, got carried away there.

[MR R32]

I am going to Issue a Challenge:

A group buy of airboxes for R32GTST and R33GTST so that we can close our filters in.....

Come on, summer is approaching fast!

[gts4]

Hey Roy,

You think the stainless will be too heavy?

I have some good holesaws to drill through with

[skylineakt]

I was thinking of a partition for my pod filter as well, but with no cold air feed, is there really a point?? Will just a heat shield help? I can't to find any room for me to run a air feed to the front bumper. Still have standard i/c.

[Guest INASNT]

I have a similiar setup to steves

U can also remove the rubber seal around the passenger side headlight under the bonnet to let more air in and feed a big benable pipe from the front bar through the stock ic holes. With the stock front bar and cooler it is near impossible to do tho.

[cobo_11]

At the moment I just have the factory air feed thing from the front of the car with the little "guide" that used to go into the factory air box.

What would you recommend for a decent fresh air feed for the POD?

[oofoofoo]

as per mr r32's challenge - does anyone have a running relationship with unique auto sports?? if so, we could try organising a group buy of their air boxes, as shown at:

http://www.uniqueautosports.com/pricelists...ine%20parts.htm

thats of course the lazy way.

[Mr Rb20]

If there was a group buy, i'd be in

[Steve]

Originally posted by cobo_11

At the moment I just have the factory air feed thing from the front of the car with the little "guide" that used to go into the factory air box.

What would you recommend for a decent fresh air feed for the POD?

Originally I had the hole from the stock intercooler pipe, with a piece of aircon duct from the front bar.

I have since upgraded to a 4" hole, ie widened the stock cooler pipe hole and using larger piping.

I suppose the bigger the hole the better:)

[Roy]

You think the stainless will be too heavy?

At the end of the day the extra weight is not likely to be a kilogram, so really how important is it.

Even if you have good holesaws 2mm stainless is crappy stuff to work with. See how you go... but assuming you will at a minimum be needing to cut 3 sides and 2 x 65mm holes im guessing you will quickly run out of patience trying to work with it... see how you go.

[gts4]

Haha thanx roy ill give it a go the holesaws were free from my last job anyways if i f**k em then doesnt matter.

Ill let you know how i go

[silverskyline]

stainless would look unreal, but unless your a stainless steel welder or ur dad is forget it, to get someone to do it would cost an arm and a leg,

[Roy]

stainless would look unreal, but unless your a stainless steel welder or ur dad is forget it, to get someone to do it would cost an arm and a leg,

If you can do all the cutting/fitting then just go down to a local fabrication/boilermaker company and offer them a case of Crownies etc to weld it. They should be able to Tig it all in less then 30minutes.

If you do all the labourioius cutting and fitting, and passivation of the weld after they have Tig'd it , then you have taken all the expense out of what they are doing, and it is no longer a 4 hour job @ $65/hour.

[SLY33]

i have cold air intake without any partition, need to lose the factory IC tho. This setup has to be the best solution bar removing the front headlight i reckon.

[SLY33]

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[rb25]

wrx style....

[BOOSTMEISTER]

I did mine in carbon....I got a big sheet of carbon and cut a side piece and a lid...took two days including doing cardoard templates and such

[BOOSTMEISTER]

I have loads of pics of the whole process of making this box...will post soon

[BOOSTMEISTER]

I love sharing shat I have done to cars...hope this helps those who aren't sure what to do. As I said above I used carbon fiber to build my box. This was a 1000mm x 1000mm x 5mm sheet made of a single layer of carbon then a layer of special ridgit foam than another layer of carbon. The sheet wasn't cheap but carbon isn't, but dam it looks cool Some of these pics have captions which I had used on my old site.

1. This is the original cardboard template I made to get the shape of the side wall, making sure there was room for hoses and fmic pipes.

2. Here it is in place, I actually made a second one that was neater and had straight edges .

3. Next was the top, again made in thick cardboard.

4. Here it is in place.

5. Adding more cardboard and taping it together to make the entire top.

6. Not sure about excited...broke more like it