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-Ross

 

Mariah motorsports cold box. This is the one i want, because it looks so clean.

 

Whats the price on that mariah motorsports cold air intake roughly?

 

$120 for the box

 

 

Nice. I like seeing peoples homemade ones.

 

120$ for that? Not impressed.

 

http://groups.msn.com/Amur/g2.msnw?albumlist=2

 

Nor should you be. There my tuner, and i give them a lot of business, a bunch of nice guys too. but i can see why the price would bother you. I mean, $120.oo.

 

i dunno bout u guys but ive got a pipe goin through that hole sitting right under where the air filter box is in the pic above and the pipe goes through to the ground=cold air

 

Every cold air box set up i see is for s5, WHERE ARE THE S4?? If i could get some good instructions on how to do these or find a place that sells them for s4's id be thrilled

 

Mine is s4.

I mostly followed these directions:

http://www.fc3s.org/how_tos/engine/cold_air_box.html

Mostly. I used black RTV instead of the tape, for one.

 

That's not a cold air box, it's a heat shield. Big difference.

 

Uhh.. So what is a cold air box then?

 

Cold air implies some way of directing cold air from outside to the filter. An airbox is a sealed box with a filter inside. The Mariah "cold air box" is neither of these things, as it is only a heat shield.

 

the mariah box seals with the hood, so that kind of puts it in the airbox category... if it came with a vented head light cover then you could push it into that cold airbox teritory but i don't have one so maybe it does more than i can see.

 

WHY would you not incorporate the stock air duct into the "cold air box" the red picture has the side of the box blocking the flow from the stock duct.

Not a functional design in my mind. I would think one would want all the air you can get, from what ever source.

 

That ducting sits right on top of the rad. Kinda defeats the purpose when the air is getting heated by one of the hottest components in the car... I tossed that duct when I finished my box.

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Not a functional design in my mind. I would think one would want all the air you can get, from what ever source.

Even a 'hot' source? The hole I cut for my box gets plenty of air from ahead of the rad. The only downside might be if the car is motionless for a time and the rad gets a chance to heat up the air between it and the nose. But then the efan will kick in and suck/blow all of that heated air out the back of the car, pulling in more cool air from in front of the car.
That's my theory, anyway.

 

mine wins for cold air so far

 

The stock snorkel must be attached to a sealed airbox to work. Air won't be pushed into it, it must be sucked through it.

 

I remember a few years back some guy actually tore out the whole air box and air tube / elbow and put together his own CAI and painted it and it looked pretty hot.. Went down into the fender too.. Too bad I don't have pictures of that kit anymore it was pretty spanking neat...

 

"The stock snorkel must be attached to a sealed airbox to work. Air won't be pushed into it, it must be sucked through it."

Why not incorporate the snorkle of the existing system, rate of flow, temp transfer from "hot" rad, cold air coming in.

What about ambiant air temp?