Cold Air Intake - Advice

[Allegiance]

Nice photos.
They tucked the intake up to the grille and above that flap area to stop any chance of water or stones/other junk from getting into the intake.
Not much space to do much, I imagine that even trying to fit a pod fliter would be difficult due to the space contrainsts? How much room is there?
Also, that pipe into the turbo inlet is tiny! It looks like a small radiator hose!

Fixxxer

Yes it is very tight, I am not sure how fitting a pod would go...

[Echizen]

Hi all, here is my intake:

[Allegiance]

Hi all, here is my intake:

Cool! Still looks like it has a few bends... Noticeable difference? How much did it cost? Where did you buy it from? Was it custom or actually made to fit into the 1.2 tsi?

[Allegiance]

Actually I found this thread:

Intakes and Exhausts - APDrive - Page 5 - VAGSG Community

Is that your car? Colour looks the same!

[Echizen]

Actually I found this thread:

Intakes and Exhausts - APDrive - Page 5 - VAGSG Community

Is that your car? Colour looks the same!

Yes that's my car. Better pick up noticeably from mid-high end. Cost me 400+SGD . Got it from apdrive. Mine was the first polo to be fitted with itg locally so you can say that it's custom fitted.

[Greg Roles]

I'm gonna ponder this today, but agree Scott is definately on the money. What's the chances of moving the battery back, or drawing air from the passenger foglight shroud area?

[Allegiance]

Don't think you could move battery, it is well secured. I have the sports pack so I use both fog lights... Or did you mean somewhere else?

[Transporter]

He probably thought, to relocate the battery to the boot.

[gldgti]

Also, that pipe into the turbo inlet is tiny! It looks like a small radiator hose!

Fixxxer

The turbo inlet is also tiny. If ther must be a bend before the compressor inlet, theres merit in keeping the pipe diameter smaller, as it keeps the air velocity through the bend high, which keeps flow into the compressor happy when its spooling (coming on throttle). This is a design feature vw have employed to improve "driveability"

[noone]

It might be worth measuring the pressure drop as was done on the last Polo...
I can see what you are saying and that the flow looks restricted, but if you test it you may see that the intake is not overly restrictive and that cash could go elsewhere...

From memory, it was the MAF that posed the biggest restriction in the last Polo GTI.