can I remove the stock airbox on my 87' GXL? it would free up a lot of room, and it would get rid of the constrictiveness (sp), right?

 

Yes, but you will be sucking in hot air.
IMHO, it doesnt matter whether you put a K&N drop-in filter into a slightly modified airbox (silencers removed, preferrably with a modified snorkel too), or if you put on a cone filter and start sucking in hot air. The gains will be pretty much the same.

 

IF you are going to take out the stock air box you would should look it into a Cold air box and fresh air headlight cover.
This is what I have from mariahmotorsports.


Al

 

is the pop up headlight still functional with that scoop?

 

yes it is.

Al

 

Isn't the Mariah box like $120? How much did you pay for the headlight cover, $140? Looks good though.

Isaac

 

yeah, the headlight cover maybe, but paying over a hundred bucks for a peice of bent metal with some cutouts and a rubber strip at the top... home depot, some sheet metal and some weather stripping, 10 bucks later and a lil time to figure out the size and where to cut the holes and youve saved a lot of money (esp if you can find the sheet metal elsewhere)

 

also, question, with the headlight scoop, do you have problems driving in the rain and with the intake getting wet? seems like that might be a problem?

 

CoolAl, turn that AFM back around the way it's supposed to be.

 

rotaries don't care as much about a little water ingestino. pistons don't really either, but if he's drivig in the rain there's a good chance his lights are on and the headlight cover would be null.

 

I just giving you Ideas.
hey I have to admit the coldair box is a expensive. Let see the
cold air box which is fiber glass 120.00
The adapters and hoses 80.00
The Fresh- Air Headlight Cover 150.00
Total 350.00

The Fresh-Air Headlight Cover is not plug and play. I had to cut part of the metal headlight bracket to make it work. One thing thou the headlight cover is metal with the exception on the cutout part.

Water gets to the intake but it hits the front cover of the filter not the sides and when I have drivin in the rain I have not notice any problems. It does not rain to much here so I dont have much problem with it.

I cant turn it back. That was anoter problem when I installed the cold box I had to turn it like that to make it work.

If I knew back then what I know now I would have made a cold box myself.
I would have ordered the headlight cover though.

Sorry for the long post
Thanks
Al

 

Unfortunately here in jersey is been raining non stop for like 3 weeks (ok maybe one or two non ranny days, but it seems like 3 weeks)

The headlight cover looks good... i almost wish that they made one for the other side... know it would be totaly non functional over there... but im all about the symetry.

Yeah, i wasnt attacking your purchaise of the mariah stuff... its nice looking, if i had the money i would get it cuz its gonna be cleaner than anything ill make... but when your on a budget

 

You can make your own air box that's not only less expensive, but looks a helluva lot better. Mine cost a total of about $40 for the materials and mine uses the stock intake path and snorkel.

Nice Airbox

I think the best thing you can do with regard to the intake is remove the stock air box (it is widely known that it is quite restrictive) and build a nicely sealed and insulated airbox around a quality, cone-type filter. There are alot of ideas on this subject. Some include extending the intake pipe out past the radiator and into the area under the bumper. I liked that idea initially, but had a hard time with water entering the intake and causing, at least, corrosion or, even worse, a failure of some sort.

From what I understand, the benefits of the NACA ducted headlight cover are pretty vague and limited for the cost and trouble associated with mounting one. Apparently, the headlight and supporting structures obstruct any air that could come in through that duct. It's a great idea in theory, but you have to do some cutting and modifying of the headlight. As sophisticated as that system is, I would hesitate to do any modifying of it for fear of ensuing problems.