I haz an idea
 

Ive been trying to find a way to get rid of the stock airbox and add a lil bit of "mabee no1 has done it yet to my car" well people have done it but i have a different twist

take out the ftp lenses, and chanell them to the intake, but put a cone intake and route it using duckting from a ford pickup. that way the cone stays pretty well protected while still getting good airflow.

and suggestions/will/wontwork?

still an idea, want input b4 i take the time to hit the picknpull

88gxl btw

http://www.fordf150.net/photos/data/500/intake.jpg

basicly modifying the stock intake work for fit an rx7 seems like a decent time waster

You would have a hell of a time with it considering the route of the duct work. It would almost be restrictive depending on how much you were willing to modify your car. All in all It probably wouldn't be a good use of time or energy. Plus I always thought the car looks better with the FTP lenses in.

^^^ +1

I don't know why the stock air box gets such a bad rep. What you're proposing would be way more restrictive than the stock box setup. Invest in a K&N drop in and you'll save yourself some hassle and some investment in Rolaids.

The FTP lenses don't lead into the engine bay. The headlights block them.

http://forum.teamfc3s.org/attachment...5&d=1078466539



Yeah, how you gonna get around the headlight??? Well alone are you then cutting a hole in the wall behind the headlight?


http://forum.teamfc3s.org/attachment...6&d=1078467094

I guess the air could come in the FTP opening, go under the headlight and back up behind it... then if you cut a big ole hole behind the headlight it might flow through... just don't get hit from the side.

Might just be easier to go the old fashioned way but with a twist.....use a cone filter enclosed in the ford air box and take out the windshield washer tank then cut a hole right above it and run the ducting to the brake duct....this way you have cooler air but the filter is still in the bay so no water!

ty for all the input, ima try to sketch something up and scan it in and see wat you guys think

wheres the sketch you asshole??? haha jk, the only ways i know of to get a cold air intake is to do what i mentioned above or make spacers for the radiator and make it verical so you can run a pipe beside the radiator

i did this when my car was still a s4 non turbo. i did it a little different though i used a bbk cold air intake from my 99 ford mustang gt and modded it to fit the MAF about mid way in the pipe and then i drilled a hole next to the washer fluid can .since i didnt have stock fog lights basicly the filter was right there where the brake duct used to be( the ducting was removed before i bought the car.)

it will take me a while for the sketch, im flying up to MA for the next week so it does gimmie sunthing to do on the plane

I'd suggest a K&N drop in and modifying the stock intake, thats what I'm looking into atm.

from what it looks the hood seals off the "hot" side of the engine bay, just need to see if the duct sitting ontop of the rad shroud so just need to get the area of the bumper where the coolent overfill is decent supply of fresh air.

I have an idea
 

Stop typing like a 5 year old and maybe people will take you a little more seriously.

im sorry i type quick, and was trying to type quickly, plus, its the internet man, not meaning to start crap but what are you. the spelling nazi?

but yes im looking at everything right now, it would be kinda a pain to make what i want to do work, but i am still gunna sketch sumthin up and mabee it will work, mabee it wont

The spelling and grammar Nazi. What are you? An 8 year old child hoping to get molested on the internet?

actually no im a 21 year old in florida who types cuz he doesnt sti ont he comp all day and has a life outside of criticizing people online

ty have a nice day

Quick to respond for being so busy with your incredibly active social life @ 9:00 on a Friday night. Me on the otherhand, am working on my car with a few friends and happen to have my laptop in the shop.

You still come across as an idiot when you type like that. No one can deny this

You can use ducting from a mustang and use a drop in k&n.

Dunno why you wanna rid of the stock intake I'd listen to TitaniumTT and "seems like a decent time waster" would be to take lessons on proper grammar and typing.

Don't bother arguing with TitaniumTT. about the best new intake idea i have seen i wanted to do but someone beat me to it.
https://www.rx7club.com/attachment.p...3&d=1224651399

It's because I am always right.








ALWAYS

Why do people try to improve air flow on a stock N/A?

Any bit helps, I noticed a gain from switching to a K&N drop in, the easier a motor can breathe the better the performance.

I'm not saying turbos wouldn't be nice but some people can't afford to go turbo, whats wrong with doing other things in the mean time?

If your motor can breathe better, gas millage goes up too ;)

Interesting

Turbo w/FMIC and the TMIC was hacked apart to form a TMAI? Looks interesting, wouldn't suck much chilled air while cruising in the city though.

he took the time to make that but couldnt even remove the old intake air ducting

That is, under most cicumstances, a myth & advertising hype. If you're motor is getting more air, it will require more fuel to compensate for the additional air being ingested.

Uhm. If it can suck air easier it'll be less strain on the engine.

When I got a new exhaust and k&n drop in, the mpg went up much more, a less restrictive exhaust and better breathing intake would mean more fuel for the air being ingested, only when more is being ingested. It also would make the engine more efficient to run on the fuel/air it's burning with a less restrictive exhaust and better intake.

I'm unsure exactly, but I'm pretty sure I'm right and you're right.

NO.
Think of an engine as a nothing more than a pump. It must pull air in and push exhaust out. By making it easier to pull air in and push air out you are freeing up power that would be used moving vacuum and pressure around and putting it to better use. The FACT is that in a feedback EMS if there is MORE air going into the engine, there is going to be more fuel needed as well. Put your stock filter & exhaust on and drive around @ WOT for an entire tank of gas, then put your upgraded parts on and drive around @ WOT and come back with the results. By allowing more air into the engine, you will need more fuel. PERIOD. The mileage increase is based on what I said above, the engine is running more effieciently and not by any real large amount when talking about a drop in filter.

Yes at WOT it will suck in more air, and push out more exhaust, requiring more fuel. You don't measure mpg by always WOT.

When driving through a city, if the engine has to exert less energy in sucking in air and pushing out exhaust, it'll run more efficiently. It'll beable to suck more sure, changing the amount it'd suck in at 25% throttle and 100% from a stock car. Yet it'll still require less to do what it did before. My dad was the one who noticed he's driven the car for 8 years before he died, as he told me requires less throttle, and gas lasts longer.

I don't get what your saying besides trying to prove me wrong, yes I know at WOT it'll suck more, require more gas. DO YOU DRIVE AROUND AT WOT IN THE CITY? I SURE DONT. I'm talking about city mpg, not race track WOT all the time mpg, oh wait mpg on a track shouldn't even matter.

sigh

TTT i say yes your car is a beautiful piece, but im home on a friday as im leaving (4am) right now to the airport, takin a week off of work and going up to MA to visit friends, anyway, none of this was ment to start any arguements, i was just asking a simple question as a friend who had an fc, took his ftp s out and used sheetmetal to duct it to a cold air, i was just wondering if i hoocked it up to say (the ford truck intak for instance) an enclosed basicly forced to the cone airflow if it would be any kind of an improvment ont he stock setup.

There's a big difference between a drop in air filter from K&N and drastically changing things around in an engine bay. And sorry, but I noticed NO power difference from a drop in air filter. Who cares about gas mileage, it's an RX-7, it's supposed to be fun, not a car that you have to pinch pennies on just to be able to enjoy the car.


This has NOTHING to do with a turbo swap. When did I ever say something like that. Now you are assuming too much into the topic at hand.


I see NO point in changing an air intake setup on a car that is running stock ports.

A more free flowing air filter certainly does increase mileage. It creates less pumping losses.

Going to a K&N filter on my Insight was an immediate 3-5 MPG gain. The effect on an FC would be considerably less though.

Much more gooder ;)

I'm sorry, but isn't this all the same thing being said in a different way?

sounds like your argument took a big 180 degree turn when you realized that you were wrong. ^^^

A) See above. I am always right. End of discussion. I don't post shit like most n00bs based on hunches and theories. I only post what I know to be fact - n00b
B) I quoted myself along with two other posts saying, *gee, isn't this all the same thing?*
C) Would you care to explain how you believe my arguement took a 180* turn? If not, STFU & DIAF. Your post was completely useless

sure id be glad to. remember when you said this?

the only way thats true is under WOT. like stated above. now you reverse that and say this...
but hey i thought you said it was not applicable and all marketing hype? where did that argument go?

S4GXL You can't win with TTT

He doesn't drive like normal people, remember hes always WOT so he doesn't like things like better intake because it'll lower his gas milliage.

He knows I was right, he just wont admit it because he hates me. Which is odd because I KNOW he was right also, I guess he can't accept both of us being right.

Aaron Cake yeah I know it didn't do much, I think if you replace the stock exhaust the intake will become a more limiting factor, so both intake, exhaust, proper maintenance would make a N/A preform at its best before porting it, turboing, etc.

I'm sorry you lack common sense and have the reading comprehension of a retarded ADD child......


Actually, it would be true under any acceleration where the trottle is at the same physical location. If you are at say 50% throttle with a normal filter, and 50% throttle with an aftmkt filter, which do you think would be allowing more air into the engine?

There is a large difference between lab tests and real world experience. In the real world people are on the gas more than they cruise. While cruising an engine needs only a fraction of it's available energy to keep the car at a constant speed. So, by lowering the pumping losses, you are allowing the engine to be more effiecent. However, subject the motor to load and all of a sudden the effiecencies that you gained by reducing the pumping losses that you would've seen with more MPG are now being absorbed by more power becuase more air is being ingested into the engine and thus more fuel is being used.

Make sense now?


Remember kiddies, I'm never wrong. Just because you're not smart enough to see that I'm right, doesn't make me wrong, it makes you a fool.

Rule #1

Rule #2

:werd:

That's becuase I'm never wrong. Seriously

That is, potentially, the most retarded thing I have EVER heard of me. It's the reason why my lifted Cherokee with 31" mudders still gets >19MPG with a near perfect 50/50 split of city & highway

I just explained why you were wrong to make such a boastful claim.

The filter is not a limiting factor.

It's a shame people with stock N/A's won't dyno these things.

:hahaha: That should be stickied in the new members section :rofl: Thanks Jack:icon_tup:

[QUOTE=TitaniumTT;8668456]I'm sorry you lack common sense and have the reading comprehension of a retarded ADD child......
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your right. you win teh internet.

still wrong. it would be true if there wasnt anything measuring the air intake into the motor. all that is controlled by the ECU so you dont see more air at any given RPM unless you compress the air. you must have never heard of the fact that your ECU controlls A/F ratio. adding a high flow filter wont add more air into your motor. thats 100% riceboi myth. instead it would allow more power to be made at a given RPM, but as long as driving style doesnt change, your engine will be more efficient and use the same a/f ratio at any given RPM. dude dont argue with me i know more about the mechanics of engines than you.

First, learn how to quote

Second - Go back to elementary school and beg them to let you back into english class

Third - Learn how modern day ecu's work, you're half right but mostly wrong in the above statement. A highflow filter will allow more air into your engine under any given rpm and throttle position. THIS IS BASIC PHYSICS YOU RETARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The air filter is a form of restriction. Ease the restriction and more air will be allowed into you engine. Why does common sense escape you? You are right on the closed loop thing, the more air, the more fuel. AGAIN - COMMON FUCKING KNOWLEDGE! I dare say I know WAY more than you about the mechanics of an engine and how to tune one.

Forth - https://www.rx7club.com/attachment.p...8&d=1224168511

Fifth - See Rule #1 & rule #2

Sixth - I'm going to go finish wiring my AIM dashs' CAN communcations so that it will work with my Motec M820. Do you have any fucking clue what those three things are? If you do, you might just know enough to slowly step away from the keyboard and never argue with me again - noob

Well still you never proved me wrong, were talking about city driving not a control 50% throttle test.

You are improving the engines abilities... sigh

an air filter will ALLOW more air to enter the engine. it wont MAKE the engine take in more air. if the engine had no way of measuring air mass you would be right.

and your trying to stump me with some retarted question? your trying to get your guage cluster to read what your standalone is doing. maybe theres too many idiots on this forum and thats why you jump at every person who disagrees.

Cmanns - I was never trying to prove you wrong, nor could I as my car is no longer N/A. However, many people have posted that the increase in mileage from a drop in filter would be negligable. I noticed no improvement when I did mine 11 years ago. Not to mention I pointed out the difference between lab tests and real world experience and why I believe through my own experiences a HUGE INCREASE IN GAS MILEAGE is nothing more than a myth and advertising hype. We are done now, mkay?


Is it just me or am I quoting myself alot here in an attempt to prove myself right :scratch: Could that be because I'm never wrong?

This still applies

No, all I did was just prove that you have no business talking in any thread about engine management. If everyone on this forum was like you I would first have my account deleted, then I would torch my car, then probably shoot myself. Now please, see Forth from above

Reasons why TTT is a loser...

AHEM

1) you drive a cherokee with 31" mudders
2) you bother complaining about grammar ON THE INTERNET (when what he was saying was completely understandable)
3) you sit behind a computer screen and flame people so you can feel smart (probably compensating for a small penis and maybe you were picked on as a child who knows i dont give a fuck)
4) you think you are always right and you brag about it ON THE INTERNET
5) you bother taking the time to quote everyone and make lists to prove a point ON THE INTERNET
6) the guy you were arguing with has been trying to say that you are both right (even though you have been consistently annoying as fuck) and you STILL CONTINUE TO BE ANNOYING AS FUCK YOU DOUSCHEBAG
7) Please burn in your own flames now:devil:

TitaniumTT ok I'm sorry then.

I was also never trying to say that its a big gain, we get about 22mpg MAYBE I'm not sure my dads the one that calculated it. Driving about 60mi to my home town, we could go there and back on a full tank and still have more than half, before the catback and k&n it'd suck up more than half, which is a pretty big diff.

I guess I miss understood you then.

Do you honestly think that the list that some little so fla faggot posted ON THE INTERNET (as you pointed out many times) has any effect on me? Especially one that cannot spell douchebag. Go away, seriously - you are not needed here or in the gene pool you fucking definition of hypocrite.

cmanns - you just said that it wasn't a big gain, then in the same post said it was a big diff :scratch: In the future, this is what infuriates me - bullshit and inconsistancies. Stay away from those & I play nice.

So much hate. Cut the crap guys. Time for everyone to take a timeout!

Yes, a timeout is in order.

A round of bannings will take place if this junk happens again because the offenders are the same over and over. Infractions don't seem to be working but I expect a vacation from posting for a few weeks will.