Ive owned the car for about a month now, but its been at home (with me being at uni), though this weekend i got to drive it for the first time. Its awsome!!!
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The car is stock apart from the intake and a single exit full through exhaust.
The in take is fed from the cold side of the radiator, this was done by the previous owner, here are some pics (think someone wanted them)
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Not bad for £800 :D
love the tumble dryer hose :D
what are you on about? its a precision engineered pipe!!!!
Quote from: grinderlove the tumble dryer hose :D
That coming for self proclaimed \'king of the bodge\'?!? :spank :rollin
It\'s high spec hose that!!!
Out of interest, how big is the actual filter under all that? :Talking1
Quote from: BrettOut of interest, how big is the actual filter under all that? :Talking1
im not sure, ill have to look next weekend :Thumbs-up
Cool - I used to have a K&N cone on my Egi, the thing was huge, probably as big as the whole stock air box! lol!
ok to answer the how bit is the air intake as i was the one that did it, if you look you can see a carbon fiber housing the air filter sits in then is a little longer than the carbon fiber is but only by about 1 cm bit is in cone shape and goes from about 2 inches at the end to the full width of the carbon at the bace
its a £120 bmc filter modded to fit into the space that the rex gave me due to the afm if didnt have the afm i could have done something better but i was on a buddget due to spending most of my cash on the air filter and carbon,
i love the way people mock it when someone puts hose pipe or air duckting or something in but ill tell you something i was going to use some of that metal hose ducting for air feeds but the stuff is crap i used it on an mr2 years back and if it tuches something or you make a hole to hold it in place with a tag tie or something it just falls to bits with the engines heat and vibration. hence why its got semi expencive modifies air ducting thats tick plastic coz it copes with the heat and the flex of the engine and you can lean on it and it wont perish like the ****ty metal flex air pipe you can get.
also what do you think the boys that run 1000bhp skylines and 600bhp mr2s and stuff use from companies like jun racing a bit of crap brittal metal air pipe or light plastic air feed pipe? i know the answer coz i have seen some of the big companys work and i can tell you its not a shiney bit of metal pipe.
god i miss that car.bugged my nabours but i loved the noise couldnt beet it.
actually it makes sense to not use the metal ducting stuff, and the hose your using is design to carry air - so who cares that it\'s in a car. :cheers
Interested in where you\'ve mounted the end of the pipe - is it in the side of the radiator fan cowel ? Does it not pick up heated air from the Rad ?
nope as its on the cold side of the rad! the rad actualy cools some of the air espesh on a hot day, and the fan actualy pulls the air threw the rad helping the intake get more air as its suckes more than the fan so the air the fan pulls in the air filter actualy eats, and the end of the duckting at the rad is shapped to sit at the same angle as the rad so it can get as much air as pos into the intake.
i spent baout 5 weeks planning it and making sure it was all to an advantage over the standard pipes hence why the afm has moves right next tot he tbs rather than next to the intake pipe, it reads the temp that is actualy going into the engine not what it was at the air filter.
i know it made a diffrence coz it went from running fuel/air ratio being smack on to it running lean after it was put on and had to go down to rotorteknics to be reset coz of it,
Quote from: ProfInterested in where you\'ve mounted the end of the pipe - is it in the side of the radiator fan cowel ? Does it not pick up heated air from the Rad ?
the bottom pick shows where it is if you were to look past the fan to the rad :D
forgot to ask you are the front wheels catching the brakes? coz if they are you may have to put 5mm spacers all round or get some 16" turbo wheels
for anyone that dosnt know what im talking about i put fd front brakes and pads on and the 15" wheels are about 1mm if that away from the brakes due to the wheels have a lip that comes in on the 15" wheels and if there were about 3mm further out they would be about 3mm away from the wheels which is about the normal distance. but the 16" turbo wheels would clear the brakes by about 1/2 inch but would still keep the car semi standard looking.
spacers would cost you about £20 for all 4 corners but dont get crap alloy ones from tmc get some proper solid steel ones as i had a set of the alloy ones on an mr2 i bought and when i found out i took them off and went to see how strong they were and you could bend them with your hands!
no the wheels are fine, but they are the last thing on my list after rust sorted, getting the car undersealed and getting the gearbox looked at
Quote from: billybobboothi love the way people mock it when someone puts hose pipe or air duckting or something in but ill tell you something i was going to use some of that metal hose ducting for air feeds but the stuff is crap i used it on an mr2 years back and if it tuches something or you make a hole to hold it in place with a tag tie or something it just falls to bits with the engines heat and vibration. hence why its got semi expencive modifies air ducting thats tick plastic coz it copes with the heat and the flex of the engine and you can lean on it and it wont perish like the ****ty metal flex air pipe you can get.
Fair point well made, but youd\'ve been better off with a silicone joiner, even if you have to use wire-reinforced Superflex. It\'d not be brittle like a metal joiner, and would resist heat soak from the engine, which is the other major problem with metal pipes, but silicone has the major advantage that the inner surface is smooth. The main problem is that all the corrugations in the hoover pipe cause major turbulence by breaking up the laminar airflow i.e. where a thin layer of air "sticks" to the inside surface of the pipe and "runs" along it. This\'ll reduce the efficiency of the intake by slowing the air supply down noticeably.
It\'s a good solution on a budget, though, well thought out.
put simply i could afford it! i was on a buddget! if i had all the money in the world then i would have got an after market ecu and got rid of the afm and then had it on map and then been able to have a fully custon hard pipe system put in but hinesight is a wonderful thing but in the real world it dont help. lol
Like I said, it\'s a good solution on a budget! :)
yer works so couldnt complain, just wish i had a job as i want to get back saving for an fc turbo 2 then i can really have some fun.
ooh, u got TII spoiler...
i got some red stock mirrors in ok condition if u wanna colour code a bit ;p
http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54229
but need to swap some internat parts from yours as the spring thingie thats made of cast iron has broke.
nope these spoilers came on the later series 4 cars.
sorry mate not interested. Firstly they\'re the wrong colour, also the car is being sold in a month or two.
Appreciate the offer though :D
That is one phat gear knob dude! Car looks awesome.. I sometimes wish i had got a red one.. I would remove all black from the car then stick some nice white 17s on it.. white on red is just the sex.
cheers man. Agree with removing the black trim. I was gunna do it, but then i decided i wanna go down the TII or FD route so im gunna save the money for those :D
oh and the gear knob is halfrauds finest. Though its actually really nice....it was already pn the car :D