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Location:
Northwestern Sydney
Registered:
August 2002
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Re: Cold air induction
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Wed, 03 March 2004 04:53
 
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The bloke who did the closing bit was an "aquantance" of mine some years back who owned a Cordia and had a fibreglass intake vent that stuck up from the bonnet. after doing work to the car he wanted just a hole in the bonnet trimmed with stainless steel but was worried about rain just falling in and filling the filter box. After a night on the piss at my place piss farting around with my old RA40 interior. I mentioned that he should make a flap that covered it with a kink in the front edge of the flap so when going at speed the flap was lifted by wind pressure letting in more air. He was rather excited by this but found the obvious flaws in that concept, and questioned me more on ways around that. After a myriad of leaver concepts and pulleys and servos he came up with a magnet setup. After that I didn't see him for a few months but when I did again he had done it! I was shocked. Basically there was the flap which was a squarebox thing that either took air from above the bonnet when open and fell below the filter box when closed pulling air from the engine bay. the magnet setup was a little beyond me but it was along the lines of two electromagnets one that held it open the other held it closed run by a switch in the car that simply reversed the polarity of the magnets. opening and closing it. it was cool when he shut the car down as the vent flopped shut.
He wrote the car off in the wet a few weeks later
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