R31 Intake

[budd9503]

Just wandering if at the end of the pipe that is highlighted by the blue circle is the air intake?

Edited January 22, 2010 by budd9503

[SKiT_R31]

what do you mean by air intake? Yes the pipe you have circled connects to the throttle body and is part of the intake piping.

That is not stock, it is a very neat aftermarket jobby, looks like a factory VLT crossover pipe has been chopped and had aftermarket piping welded to it, with the whole lot painted black. With the fact that they have done this and kept the factory airbox, and factory VLT heat shielding makes it a very neat impressive R31 turbo conversion.

[budd9503]

what do you mean by air intake? Yes the pipe you have circled connects to the throttle body and is part of the intake piping.

That is not stock, it is a very neat aftermarket jobby, looks like a factory VLT crossover pipe has been chopped and had aftermarket piping welded to it, with the whole lot painted black. With the fact that they have done this and kept the factory airbox, and factory VLT heat shielding makes it a very neat impressive R31 turbo conversion.

Ijust recently bought an R31 skyline, and i was just wandering if i could put a pod filter on the end of that pipe?

[SKiT_R31]

Is that a picture of your cars engine bay?

If so, that car is turbo, and if you put a pod filter there, 2 things will happen. 1. you car will become a hell of alot slower, i.e. bcome n/a. 2. you car wouldnt actually go, because the AFM wouldnt meter the air going into the engine to tell it how much fuel to inject.

If that is your engine bay, i really wouldnt recommend putting a pod filter on it, yes you will get some cool noises out of it, but it wont positively effect performance, infact, at higherspeeds, you will notice a drop in responce and general pickup (spool, getup and go) due to losing the snorkel.

If that doesnt change your mind, then what you need to do, is remove the airbox.

To do this ,you need to pop the clips on it, pull the top off, pull out the panel filter, unbolt the afm from the airbox (bolts inside the airbox, with a metal bellmouth) then unscrew the airbox bolts ive circled, to pull the whole contraption out.

Then you need to take the metal bellmouth or airbox bottom into somwhere like autobarn or supercheap, and ask for an AFM pod filter adapter to bolt to your afm. Then your in buisiness....

[budd9503]

Is that a picture of your cars engine bay?

If so, that car is turbo, and if you put a pod filter there, 2 things will happen. 1. you car will become a hell of alot slower, i.e. bcome n/a. 2. you car wouldnt actually go, because the AFM wouldnt meter the air going into the engine to tell it how much fuel to inject.

If that is your engine bay, i really wouldnt recommend putting a pod filter on it, yes you will get some cool noises out of it, but it wont positively effect performance, infact, at higherspeeds, you will notice a drop in responce and general pickup (spool, getup and go) due to losing the snorkel.

If that doesnt change your mind, then what you need to do, is remove the airbox.

To do this ,you need to pop the clips on it, pull the top off, pull out the panel filter, unbolt the afm from the airbox (bolts inside the airbox, with a metal bellmouth) then unscrew the airbox bolts ive circled, to pull the whole contraption out.

Then you need to take the metal bellmouth or airbox bottom into somwhere like autobarn or supercheap, and ask for an AFM pod filter adapter to bolt to your afm. Then your in buisiness....

No that isn't a picture of my engine, i haven't got a camera and i lost the cord for m phone to plug into the computer, basically i want to know how to put a pod filter on a N/A rb30?

[mad082]

pull of the airbox and mount the pod where the airbox used to be and enjoy the massive power gains provided by your HAI (hot air induction)

/sarcasm

[SKiT_R31]

Its the same story for your car, for the info i previously gave.

All it will give you is the induction noise, there will be no power gain, infact there will be a slight loss at higher speeds and lower ambient temps.

[budd9503]

Its the same story for your car, for the info i previously gave.

All it will give you is the induction noise, there will be no power gain, infact there will be a slight loss at higher speeds and lower ambient temps.

So i have to install a cold air intake yeah? 

how much would it set me back by doing so?

[mad082]

you can make one up pretty cheaply

[willL]

ah yeah i know this car....its currently for sale >

http://www.carsales.com.au/all-cars/privat...id=123AB1F0900B

CAI shouldn't set you back too much you just need the material to make a surrounding for the pod filter, or alternatively you could buy one pre-made.

check out r31skylineclub.com, i remember seeing a DIY section for cold air intakes and photos of everybody's different designs etc..

[B. J.]

Gee, that engine bay looks familiar... Thanks for the comments guys

Currently worse for wear after some Victorian dickhead in a rental chucked a U turn infront of me... 3 weeks later and the assesor from the Rental company is only just looking at the car today, and not in person I might add. I have offers on the car as it sits, and if I get a settlement payout, the car is going, and I'm keeping the cash.

As said by many others, its a turbo setup, sticking a pod on the end of that section of piping will do more harm than good, again check out R31 SC for all the details about doing that. I know plenty of people who run with the lid off the airbox, works well on the turbo too - Great flutter... or have a pod in place of the stock airbox. Personally, the stock airbox is quite ok.