Your Pod Setups

[kidafa]

Hi All,

Im currently tossing up if I should put a POD filter into my stag. Currently Im running the stock box with a hi-flow blitz drop in panel filter, keeping in mind the scoop is slightly cut down to allow for the FMIC piping.

The main reason Id like a pod is purely for the added induction noise, I know its a bunch of wank but hay....

The only reason I havnt purchased a Pod yet is becuase a. I dont know what one to get (want one readily available) and b. I would like to (MUST) have some form of cold air feed to it.

So those of you with pods could you please post up your setups of what pod and explain ur cold air feed, pictures would be great aswell ! I think i rember seeing in tangles engine bay and he had something going on around his? cant remember 100% thou.

Hows this for a pod setup!:

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

haha damn , come to victoria with that, its begging for a defect.

[jippa]

the best pod imo is the apexi because in the kit form it bolts straight on to your intake and has a bracket to hard mount it to something ( which makes it legal in good ol wa ). shure there not a good flow as the 3a but they have the funel which is ment to swirl the air for better intake... whith the pick of the pod on that stag, i wouldnt want to be driving it on a wet day. its begging to suck in some water

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/APEXi-replacement-p...%3A1|240%3A1318

link to pod that will bolt straight on to your afm.. just got to make your own braket like

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Nissan-R33-R34-GTSt...%3A1|240%3A1318

im sure you get everything in the first on except the braket which u can easily make yourself and save a heap

Edited December 10, 2008 by jippa

[southern_tango]

Some pics ..from japan

[KiwiRS4T]

I got rid of my pod and put a standard airbox and snorkel back with a highflow filter because I found the sucky noise tiresome. I am going to add a cold air supply to the top of the airbox.

If you really want a pod you will be sucking in hotter air unless you have a heat shield. Here is a link to the best i have seen so far:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Ma...at-t208224.html

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

mines in the middle of production .. just need a lid cut out and attatched then sent for powder coating,

Robert , how's those highflow pannels work ? notice any differents in pull between pod and hi flow ?

[KiwiRS4T]

mines in the middle of production .. just need a lid cut out and attatched then sent for powder coating,

Robert , how's those highflow pannels work ? notice any differents in pull between pod and hi flow ?

I could say its heaps better since i put in the airbox with the Pipercross panel filter but then i would be no better than the guys who put on a pod filter and say their car goes miles faster. In truth i can't tell the difference. However SK has done the research (and written it up here somewhere) with temperature sensors in the filter area and one outside in the cold air stream and the difference can be very great.

I have no doubt that if you made up a heat shield such as the one shown in the link from my previous post and fitted a cold air supply you would have a perfectly satisfactory set up complete with sound effects ( a plus for some, a negative for others).

I am also sure that my set up with a highflow filter in the standard airbox will be just as effective but I am adding a cold air supply to the top of the airbox from behind the LH headlight and fitting an air diverter, and making a shroud to direct all the air from the LH scoop into my Trust SMIC ( which incidentally has been coping well on my track days when although the engine, tyres and brakes are all as hot as the intercooler pipes remain OK. In fact I had upped my turbo timer to 5 min on track days but I have cut it back to 2 min because i noticed that when I pulled up and felt the intercooler pipes they were OK but after 5 min idling they were really hot - absorbing the surrounding heat.

BTW my GCG turbo has got me another 35 KW from 155 AWKW @ 10psi (stock turbo) to 190 @ 14psi so i hope with a little more fiddling I will make my 200AWKW at 16psi.

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

hey good work man. i'll get some pics up as soon as mine is done,

yeah like you said the sound can get a little annoying, but i use it to my benifit, if i dont hear the suction i know im saving fuel

[~R33AzzA~]

A little off topic but, I saw a red P plated (vic) the other day with a pod filter coming out the top of his bonnet.. And to top it off this was on a tf magna haha.

Back on topic, my brother and myself both use stock air boxes with high flow panel filters.

[kidafa]

bump it up, anyone made one of those boxes for their stag?

[Tangles]

Ive got a cold air inductiion box from sau SA member Maxx.

was for an R34 and is sheet metal etc.

uses the stock standard snorkel and has the area below from the two original intercooler pipe holes..... Im using return air feed cooler so my holes are being used but when I go to a Greddy plenum and redo the fmic I will have a hole spare and can tube in more cold air induction.

so, z32 afm sits on outside of the metal box with lid and stock snorkel feed coming in, air from underneath if you have an upgraded fmic, pod filter sits securly inside and the lid closes it all off.

no engine hay heat to speak off, although the heatsoak is quite extreme so the inner side of my CAI setup is heat-foam insulated.

pics when I get the Stag back from headwork. .... still waiting.

[kidafa]

thanks for that brendan... still waiting!?! I hate waiting for stuff ill admit im an impatient f**k!

[pork hunt drifting]

^^ relax m8 im in same boat, still duno what to do.

i looked at moding the standard box to make way for bigger snorkel (more noise n flow) but didnt work out so that ideas out the windy.

i think the pod and custom box is the only way to go 4 louder induction noise, i just dont want a big defect under my bonnet. i suppose if done neatly and slap a couple of emission stickers on it most cops would be none the wiser.

[KiwiRS4T]

Well Ive got good news and bad news.

The good news: since I'm on holiday i spent the best part of a day (some hours spent planning, drink in hand) neatly enlarging the intake to my SMIC cutting away the inside plastic on the front bar but so that it still looks much the same as the other one from a distance. Since I got a bigger Trust SMIC the old shroud was no good so I have now made up ducting whuch ensures that 99% of the air that comes through the bumper duct goes through the SMIC. Took it for a thrash and the outlet intercooler pipe was really cool to the touch. I am hopefull this will translate into more KW and better track performance and enable me to stick with the SMIC. Then I cut a hole in the end of the standard airbox lid because I am going to duct air from behind the LH headlamp into the box (to supplement the snorkel).

The bad news. The next day I picked up the airbox lid and noticed that because I did it on the bench, upside down, I had made a neat hole in the wrong end of the lid!!

Luckily i hadn't thrown away the piece I cut out so I have resealed and am now starting again on the other end!

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

lol dont ya hate that man.

gave my brother in law my cardboard air box, for him to make out of galvanized steel. he did make the box only inside out.

since has been fixed up, but after finding a wet air filter after the car wash. that idea is down the toilet and going back with stock box k&n panel

[Tangles]

this is the unit Maxx sells

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/R3...amp;hl=maxx+cai

[BKC34]

hey all well i took off my standard air box and put on a pod that i had on my ol' 31 sedan. This was so that my girlfriend could hear the blowoff sound lol

sorta got sick of it, plus everyone i know with a skyline is like " keep your stock airbox just put a high flow panel in"

so i did last week and i cant notice any difference in power, if anything it goes a bit better i would say

however.......after looking at those cai kits from maxx...hrmmm makes me wonder

[kidafa]

Well i Currently have a stock air box with a blitz hi-flow panel.

Pulling on the throttle cable with bonnet up and hand on the scoop you can feel it sucking alot of air, so much that i think it would be borderline starving itself. So I've got a blitz pod on the way but I will be putting it in some sort of enclosure with a cold air feed.

In my opinion pod in enigne bay without some sort of surround and a cold air feed = epic fail/ hot air induction *heaps cool, thumbs down haha. end rant.

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

Thousands of man hours spent on a design of a box to keep hot air out and only cool air comes in via one entry point

and reduce induction sound ..... :PBJ:

[KiwiRS4T]

Well i Currently have a stock air box with a blitz hi-flow panel.

Pulling on the throttle cable with bonnet up and hand on the scoop you can feel it sucking alot of air, so much that i think it would be borderline starving itself. So I've got a blitz pod on the way but I will be putting it in some sort of enclosure with a cold air feed.

In my opinion pod in enigne bay without some sort of surround and a cold air feed = epic fail/ hot air induction *heaps cool, thumbs down haha. end rant.

Personally i don't drive with my hand over the air intake so no problem. Also if you stick your hand out the window at anything over about 60 k you will find a fairly good airstream which Nissan has designed a snorkel to divert to your airbox. Just the same I am getting a second feed of cold air from behind the LH headlight into the top of the airbox and an air deflector (if it ever arrives from Aus) will help as well.

[slightly off topic] Didn't finish my extra cold air supply today because I managed to get a cheap timing light and so installed my adjustable exhaust cam gear instead - easy job if you're not doing the cambelt as well. Set it at 4deg retarded and now just have to save up for a top class tune.