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I can't say that I can say "WOW What a difference it make!". In fact going from a pod to this about the only thing I notice is the induction noise is a little more throaty. Power still seems to be as good as it was. One of the major benefits for me was that the car is now that much more legal with an enclosed air box. Sure, by the time your pulled over and have the bonnet open your well and truly in the **** anyway, but at least it should make NSW pink slips an easier process (not that the guy I go to cares too much).Originally Posted by Mrk_Mickey
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So Hawk, after however long it's been, are you happy with the upgrade? I'm looking to do SOMETHING with my airbox and considering I won't be affording an exhaust anytime soon this will please me a little methinks..is it worth looking at, easy to install, much of a difference?
Install was very easy, most of the time it took me was driving back and forth between home and AutoBarn when I realised I needed another part
What you need is about 3 meter of each hose type, 9 hose clamps (if you replace them all),two hose joiners and of course the air filter and any adaptors you may need to connect it up to your current air intake. IIRC I used a 2.5" -> 3" adaptor.
The next step for me would be to take the MAF housing out and cut the screen out of it. Something I'm toying with, on one hand I think it's a level of protection for the MAF, on the other I think if anything worth talking about is getting through the air filter I'm pretty much screwed anyway. As for how much difference it makes?? Still trawling the net looking at opinions.
On the upside, driving round Sydney in the pouring down rain over the last couple of weeks hasn't been an issue with an air filter sitting so close to the ground. I am very mindful of that point and try to take it a little easier in the wet (as opposed to my normal foot to the floor driving style) in the hope that less water is being sucked up. I'm also on the look out for large bodies of water across the road and try not to drive through them. For the moment I think that short of driving through a creek I will be right.
In reality I may be being overly paranoid about the air filter, if anything I should consider one of those valvy things that stops you flooding your engine with water if you do manage to submerge in the intake. Or I could always loose the extension pipe when it's really raining, which is about a 60 second job. Another point to note is that it isn't supposed to rain all that much in Australia anyway, so I should have few(er) days to be paranoid about when we get out of our current [overly] wet season.
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