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Location: Adelaide
Registered: July 2002
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Re: pic of my ghetto cold air intake
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Thu, 10 November 2005 13:32

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you need a fuck load of water to get hydraulic lock on an engine i used to feed my old 4ac a cup of water straight down the carby to err "steam clean" the engine tho it did stop the run on i was having with it id say if it did pick up some water it would just stall it at worst.
but yeh theres a reason why theres a thing called an airbox and its not JUST for noise/cost factors 
my cold air intake is only slightly less ghetto than that but i made.....well...bent / mangled some aluminium into a box...kinda and then ran a feed from the front bumper up the box and shoved it right down the pod filters mouth. Works insanely good compared to having an open pod just hanging off the throttle body. measured intake temps are at most 2 or 3c above ambient.
i did some ruff maths assuming that for every 4c drop in air intake temp you gain a 1% power increase
so example:- air intake temp 60c - assumed power output 100kw
drop the air intake temp to 20c ie 40c drop (40/4=10) 10 *1%= 10%
new air intake temp 20c - assumed power output 100kw + 10% =110kw
no idea what im going on about really im just pretty just rambling on shit coz im tired
goin to bed laters!
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terra | Thu, 10 November 2005 05:24 |
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terra | Thu, 10 November 2005 05:29 |
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Shraka | Thu, 10 November 2005 05:47 |
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ke382TG | Thu, 10 November 2005 05:49 |
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time2play | Thu, 10 November 2005 05:58 |
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justcallmefrank | Thu, 10 November 2005 06:01 |
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stradlater | Thu, 10 November 2005 06:48 |
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LEVIN GTV | Thu, 10 November 2005 06:05 |
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justcallmefrank | Thu, 10 November 2005 08:37 |
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ed_ma61 | Thu, 10 November 2005 08:57 |
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Skip | Thu, 10 November 2005 09:09 |
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clubagreenie | Thu, 17 November 2005 10:24 |
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Hunty | Thu, 10 November 2005 13:32 |
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terra | Thu, 10 November 2005 20:08 |
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beige_bandit | Thu, 10 November 2005 21:38 |
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illuminatus | Thu, 10 November 2005 22:05 |
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feral4mr2 | Thu, 10 November 2005 23:00 |
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BlackGT4 | Sat, 12 November 2005 02:52 |
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Mr DOHC | Sat, 12 November 2005 06:18 |
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Shraka | Fri, 11 November 2005 01:59 |
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terra | Fri, 11 November 2005 03:01 |
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Shraka | Fri, 11 November 2005 03:03 |
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ae86drift | Wed, 16 November 2005 13:19 |
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Shraka | Wed, 16 November 2005 23:55 |
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b1gb3n | Sun, 20 November 2005 17:18 |
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old_mr2 | Fri, 11 November 2005 17:24 |
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domasik | Sat, 12 November 2005 13:33 |
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towe_001 | Wed, 16 November 2005 12:57 |
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-=DV=- | Sat, 12 November 2005 13:45 |
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terra | Sat, 12 November 2005 17:50 |
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old_mr2 | Sun, 13 November 2005 12:27 |
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Mr Savage | Mon, 14 November 2005 03:01 |
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Corona RT142 | Thu, 17 November 2005 00:04 |
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Shraka | Thu, 17 November 2005 00:14 |
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Corona RT142 | Thu, 17 November 2005 00:23 |
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