Crazy Air Induction Mod

[MANWHORE]

G day fellars, this is a serious question.

I know there is the constant debate about panel filters in the air box v pod filter.

I thought i'd summarise what i've found:

filtration: paper filter - best, apexi, pipercross - almost as good, rest e.g. hks, trust, blitz - shit

airflow - paper - shit - I find it does not rob top end power, but rather responsibility accross the rev range.

pod - good when running with the bonnet off

- with the bonnet on without a partition, it's slightly laggier until all the hot air is purged from the system

NOW FOR MY CRAZY IDEA!!!

For those of us running a low mount turbo still, why can't we just get a short pipe made up from the turbo that runs allows the afm to be attached. A pod can then be attached to that. This should prevent all heat problems, as the pod will basically be sucking in cold air from underneath the car.

Is this possible? Any thing I should be aware of (I am aware of water splash, but placing the pod in front of the wheels should prevent splash). The reason why i'm wondering about this, is since bass junky is making a turbo to afm pipe, this would solve the problem of the rubber getting sucked shut, as well as shorten the induction piping.

If you are going to comment, only give constructive comments. I don't care if you wanna flame my ideas. Go hit your head on a wall instead.

[Busky2k]

Only problem IMO by exposing the pod to underneath the car is that it'll be collecting a shitload more dirt and perhaps even water in winter..

[dnb]

it will collect more shit than you could ever imagine.been there,done that.

i recommend that no one ever does it.

[dangerous_daveo]

I saw it on a VL once, (fairly modded) worked, but yeah, dirt man. Its australia, we dont have clean roads or anything. Its a good idea in theory, but in practices for a road car its not practial.

[gtst25]

One of my mates hydrauliced his engine (pod in front) in a typical sudden summer Queensland downpour - just drove through a deep puddle....

[Evo_Lee]

why re-invent the wheel, box your pod and run a air duct to the box from the front bar.

[BOOSTD]

Pod behind front bumper shielded from direct force(keeps it clean and free of bugs)

[Ed G]

A mate of mine had it down near where the stock cooler was... worked ok, but had to take off the front bar to change/check the filter

[Bass Junky]

I had it like that on a VN commodore with a Unifilter Oil/Foam filter and yeay, it got really dirty, really quickly.

Sounded like a monster though!!

[aridyne]

I had mine installed where the original intercooler was, I installed a repco pod filter heatshield for use as a dirt shield, worked really well, yet still got a crap load of dirt, so I am going to box up the pod inside my engine bay and then run a cold air intake from the hole I made for the piping to the front bar and run like that.

Way better, police hate pod's so if you can hide it in a box they can't do crap and well I got sick of cleaning my pod every 2 weeks due to dirt even with a decent amount of protection...