Induction kit / Air filter

[Ian.]

Hya
Looking to change my set up as what i have draws air from close to the road and as i have not air box etc i have a nice area that something could sit. Any recommendations and links would be nice
Cheers
Ian

[WayneR#1195]

Ian, are you therefore running a cone filter set up, with the cone at the bottom, as per original design? If you do, then you could reposition the cone to up behind the nearside headlight.

[DanT404]

Do you have a photo of your current set up? And a preference on where you would like the filter to sit ultimately.

[Ian.]

Ian, are you therefore running a cone filter set up, with the cone at the bottom, as per original design? If you do, then you could reposition the cone to up behind the nearside headlight.

Ill take a look but i think i have a cone set up but its down in the depths so hopefully if it is then i could swing it around. Just dont like it right down there were it could breath in small things like children etc

[Nemo]

It sounds like a K+N set up. I had one on my last car. If it's got the filter sock on it I wouldn't worry, plenty of cold air. Just don't go wading through rivers

[Ian.]

Well it seems i have a K & N type cone Filter down there ! The boost hose comes from the turbo and elbows down to the bottom of the rads. It was said above i could turn it around but that would make the dv outlet face the rad so that's not going to work. So, can anyone recommend (with linkypoo) were i can go for a Silicon hose that will go from the turbo and bend up to position the cone behind the headlight

[S1_John]

Why do people move the filter into the engine bay behind the headlight? Surely you are reducing airflow to the filter, gaining more heat soak and loosing power.

[Poynter87]

S1_John I think people move it behind the headlight to reduce the risk of sucking up water through the filter though a filter sock will help with this but it would have to be a decent size puddle to suck up enough water to do any damage. Also it looks a lot nicer with it in the engine bay but I'm with you as I thought it would restrict the air flow to the filter and have more heat soak unless you run ducting from the fog lights to the filter.

[AlexRS2782]

OP, as a couple of other posters have said, what is your current engine bay setup? Are you still running the chargecooler system or has the car been converted to a front mount air / air intercooler setup? This will decide whether or not what you're planning is do-able, as it's all relevant to where the battery is located.

If your bay is like the first pic (chargecooler setup) it's not possible as the battery sits in the way of where the filter would sit & be piped through. If it's like the second pic (intercooler setup) then the filter can be positioned similar to the one pictured with custom pipework. Although it helps in that case if the turbo housing has also been spun 180degrees to allow extra space for the pipework. The only way you can run the filter behind the headlight with the chargecooler setup is if you relocate the battery to the tailgate.

Pic 1:


Pic 2:


Excuse the pics - best i could grab with a quick Google image search.

[Ian.]

Mines like the second pic and hopefully i have it sorted now so cheers for your input

[WayneR#1195]

Why do people move the filter into the engine bay behind the headlight? Surely you are reducing airflow to the filter, gaining more heat soak and loosing power.

John, For me, it looks better up in the engine bay. With regards to the heat soak issue, I've removed my nearside front fog light, (Not needed for MOT purposes) and I'm running a cold air feed, from here with ducting, up and under the air filter. It was done before all my live mapping was completed, so I'm happy, I'm not losing power.