how's this for cold air??
 

Just finished a customer's car that wanted a cold air duct routed to the compressor housing. Parts of the engine has been taken out for polishing but you get the picture. My welding on the aluminum box isn't good especially since it's 18ga so don't make fun of it:) It will be painted black anyways.

I'm sure more pics will be posted after all the polished parts are installed. Stay tuned

piping looks JDM sytle

you went through all the trouble of providing a direct path to the turbo for rocks and road debris? :)

practice safe CAI and put a K&N in there.

I'd think that the piece of wire screen that you see on the car in the 4th picture is probably going in front of the duct where the a second oil cooler would normally be, and besides how he has it setup it doesnt keep you from putting a filter on the end of the piping where it meets the duct. ;) Anywho, nice job John, looks good, and I was planing on trying to do something simliar to that!

-Alex

Haha!! Inline filters will be added. We could suck up a pretty good size rat with this:)

Actually, the screen is what I took off the C-West bumper cover. We're going to run inline filters (screens) within the piping. Probably end up using about 3 filters, this should do the job well.

Also, with a twin turbo setup, something like this would just look sick!!!

Thats a nice one off air duct

wow that is real nice work !!

Thats what I was saying, the customer may have just had those on for looks, but that would keep larger objects from entering the duct, and a filter would take care of particles. If I was to just use a single K & N style filter, I would want a screen like that in front of it to keep large objects from damaging the filter. Everything will look sick with my twin setup lol!! ;) :D

-Alex

Could you show more pics of where the filter would be? (i kinda know but i wanna see lol) And also maybe a view from the bottom showing there what duct is routing the air toward?

I like the set up. Props to you dude.

Jeremy

First of all, nice work. The compressor intake temp and pressure matter more than most people think, even if you have a huge IC, etc. to cool things down afterward.

I'd put a filter on there if it was my car. I don't trust those screens to filter enough and I think they block the flow a lot more than it looks like they would. One real air filter probably flows a lot better and filters MUCH better than a collection of simple screens the same size as the pipe. Those screens are deceptively restrictive (40% blockage for the one in the pic is my guess). K&Ns get dirty fast, though, so it will be high maintenance so close to the road. It might not be much of a problem if you could get at it without having to take too many things apart, though. Maybe just connect it to the end of the pipe and pull the pipe to get at the filter? Maybe some kind of baffles could be designed into the filter pocket to block a lot of the junk that will be flying at the element all the time.

-Max

He stated in a post afterwards that he was using small filters in the piping, that screen that I pointed out is just going in front of the duct, thats just the wire mesh that people put in there bumpers for looks, in this case it will keep large objects from getting in the duct.

-Alex

Edit: Well he posted "filters (screens)" not quire sure if he means actuall filters, or screens used as a filter.

Pretty sweet.

I've got a comment also, not completely directed at you, mostly I'm thinking 'out loud' so to speak:
I've never seen a factory setup with metal intake pipes. I wonder if it's because of the manufacturing (making plastic molds vs hiring welders), or if they are doing it because of something else like weight differences, various heat transfer properties, longevity, etc...

It would be interesting to see some sort of numbers on a metal intake duct vs. plastic vs. carbon.

-s-

l;ooks like it sucks hot air directly off the engine block. bad engineering

Nice work. Keep us posted on the final product. BTW....in that second pic. that coolant hose coming off the water pump housing looks to be kinked pretty bad.

My god I hope your joking, or your just really stupid! How the hell would it suck hot air off the engine when its down in the front bumper oil cooler inlet?!

-Alex

He is still going to be sucking in hot air because the radiant heat off the asphalt is hotter the further down you go especially in the summer. This is good for a ram-air type of effect. Nice job though!

I'd have to disagree, thats like saying "radiant heat off the asphalt" is flowing hot air through a front mount and/or oil coolers. If your driving, the little heat thats coming off the asphalt isnt going to do a damn thing because your going to have fresh cool air going through it.

-Alex

cone welds give me an erection

that deans car?

I have always had plans to engineer something like that when I go single, now I don’t have to, lol. I think that is one of the best ideas for a single turbo, I hate the thought of the filter being buried in the engine bay, right in front of the manifold. Good job.

Edit: he must have a sleek headlight conversion cause where the piping is routed it looks like that’s right where the flip-up headlight would go when the light was down, I ask cuz I looked at my car for a route to do this before.

You mean like this? ;) http://www.winternet.com/~aspi/Picture%20025.jpg

Awesome work! Fuckin great welding btw!!!

I don't even want to know why the intake side of the compressor is piped into the IC, and the compressor side is facing the air filter... unless it's some sort of "New" turbo... :D

The piping to the air filter is coming from the inlet on the second turbo behind the 1 that you see in the picture. ;)

-Alex

Edit: I see what your saying, the inlet on the front turbo is going to the intercooler.