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Hey, i just installed a Pod Filter, Im just concerned, with it sitting just in the engine bay, is it sucking in to much hot air?

sorry if this has been covered but i just dont wanna damage anything...

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Its ok for it to have hot air, its just better to have it sucking in cold air rather than hot. If it really worries you run some pipes that draw in the cold air, or make up a littlecold air box

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yeah, like the original pipe that was running from front of car to air filter i have left for now, but i was just concerned as the FMIC is still stock that the temps would go higher....

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this is tricky...pod filter is installed in hope to suck in more air into the engine....

however the disadvantage being, as the engine bay heats up, hot air is being sucked instead of cold air....

warm air has lesser density compared to cold air. Which also means that there will be lesser oxygen content in a meter cube of air in comparison to the more dense cold air. And combustion rely on oxygen in the air...

The intention is good, some ppl install air box or heat shield around the pod filter, however that defeats the initial purpose of trying to suck in more air ~~...so if heat shield were installed, in overall you get air warmer than from the standard cold air induction and a more restricted flow than from a non shielded pod filter. Which ends up pretty much in similar condition to a factor air filter.

I read once in magazine saying that it is actually best to leave the air filter standard esp Vtecs due to the resonance mambo jumbo which I dun really get...

I did get the HKS mushroom tho and my 0-100 speed was a few secs slower than it used to be (RSM)....but I didn't regret switching the filter..I like the breathing sound it makes...suking thing...

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I read once in magazine saying that it is actually best to leave the air filter standard esp Vtecs due to the resonance mambo jumbo which I dun really get...

NA engines are a little different in that respect. They get affected more by resonance in the intake system. The stock airboxes will tend to have some kind of resonator pipe / chamber which stop it from doing that.

The resonator chamber smooths the airflow out during the entire rev range, which means the power delivery is also a lot more even. I've read that by altering that chamber, you can actually get more top-end power at the expense of low-end. But its the kind of hydrodynamic black art that you'd need a big R&D budget to develop, and that's easy to get wrong and hard to get right.

FI motors, because they tend to forcibly suck air through the induction, are less likely to get that so running a pod filter doesn't affect them as much.

As for heat soak, I'd concur with what everyone else has said. As long as your engine is light tune, its safe but not ideal. I'd recommend obtaining some kind of heat shield and maybe a CAI setup, but its not something that is going to force you to not drive the car until fixed.

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silver, did you car come with a stock snorkel that connects to the factory airbox?

My one is nismo so I'm not sure if this i sacutally included with all R34s

If you do have this item, simply place it over the pod and secure it so it doesnt move around and that will bring in fair bit of cold air into it.

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