check out my new intake. we cut the stock throttle body elbow and used fiberglass and a saw to make the stock air intake tube go to a "new" spot in the engine bay.

i'm sure several people on here have done this, but its a wonder why more people havent... anyways, we thought it was a pretty good idea.

 

number 2 poop

 

3

 

4... butts

 

What did you make that out of!?

Looks pretty good, other than that.. neat idea.. maybe it doesn't stick out so much in person..

 

umm... is it sealed at all?

 

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Looks like it got rid of some pipe length between the AFM and TB. How does it drive?

 

haha, yes its sealed man. we made it out of fiberglass and a little too much resin it seems.

 

feels like a little more top end, but no MAJOR improvements.

 

I must be missing something, is it supposed to get more (cold) airflow back there? I'm not seeing any advantage. A cold airbox in the front seems like a more worth while project.

 

maybe there's not really an advantage... but the whole point was to have a somewhat short-ram intake (atleast shorter than stock) and be able to easily make a box to isolate the filter from the hot engine bay.

the fiberglass will be sanded down (we havent sanded it yet, just spray painted it) and then repainted so it wont look like a big tumor. the bottom line right now is that it is sealed and the car runs fine. i will worry about cleaning it up later.

more of our fiberglassing adventure

 

there is a hose frm where the cruise control was... it probably wont supply MUCH air, but maybe a little.

 

ok it will look better tomorrow

 

they didn't do it because that's a friggin' DINKY hole where the cruise control motor goes. I've removed mine trust me I know, it's like a 2" hole.

 

The back edge of the hood, where it meets the windshield, is a high pressure area.
If you put a reverse scoop inlet or louvers there you will get cold ram air!

 

I've been told intakes back there are known to result in blown engines, though I can't figure out how this would occur. Maybe bits of intake getting sucked in?

I've thought about doing this with a scoop, still might, but dunno if I wanna put a hole in my hood back there. Wouldn't be any good if I ever went turbo.

Anyway, good job.

 

Wow, what a fantabulous intake.

 

i have a quick question, you say are running without the afm? are u running stand alone?, whats the deal, i wanna take mine out!!


ive seen this be4 an it does look kool with a scope. someone a long time ago did this to, an the whole thing about not good for the engine might be true because i havent seen him on the forum ever since..

im not saying doing this mod will make your engine blow, but i THINK his did, but maybe it wasnt because of the mod, no one knows...

if you look closely at his hood in the pics u can see he was in the process of the scope, i was really considering this mod, jus gotta work on some other stuff first tho.

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...ght=ftp+lights

 

what are you talkin about man? i have my AFM in there... i have a series5 so its a cone AFM and not the flapper door.........

 

i remember reading about a company that made somethign like this and they dynoed the car and it made less hp wit what they made and more wit the stock intake and and k&n are u gona dyno yours .

 

yeah i'll dyno it if i can get to a dyno