The OFFICIAL 24v Engine Bay Thread

[Jand3rson]

Best valve cover ever.

[avery0829]

[White325is]

Put about a 6-8 inch tube between the maf and filter and your engine will run better.
Looks nice and clean though.

[avery0829]

Elaborate on that please. It is mad clean! My ocd comes alive when dealing with cars haha

[Jafxod]

Best valve cover ever.

Its made from an old fish tank.




Its actually just sheet metal wrapped in heat wrap. Downpipe is also wrapped, I hope I dont have any issues with the coilpack wiring.

[White325is]

Elaborate on that please. It is mad clean! My ocd comes alive when dealing with cars haha

With the filter on the maf like that its not allowing the maf to read correct there for making the engine run different.
I believe it was "CMT" that had a thread on it when he did a dyno on his engine. Also Jordan "Stuck" ran into this problem when he had his filter right on his maf with his supercharger setup.

[MaxBell]

So what is the solution?

[Nairb]

So what is the solution?

Put about a 6-8 inch tube between the maf and filter and your engine will run better.

[5mall5nail5]

I was just looking at that pic above with the red valve cover, and wondering, do you need every one of those plates that goes between the coil packs? I only have the 2 that are running under the lead wires, and the 2 little ground straps.

Sorry I just saw this post - no, I don't need them all but since I powder coated the valve cover with a nice thick coating, and its an insulator, I like to ground the coils best. The factory uses the ground strap and two bridges to help ground the stock valve cover, but its mostly metal on the top side and where the bridges bolt/coils bolt. With mine coated and sitting on rubber grommets and rubber valve cover gasket, the ground plane up there can be weak. I've learned from high horsepower builds that so long as you don't create ground loops, the better the ground, the better.

[bubbajan21]

Whoops, missed these posts from november

Clean. Which headers are those and where did you buy them from?

I was wondering the same.......great looking tubes.

Hate to quote this picture again, but how is your brake reservoir mounted? Any more detailed pics?

These are HIOP Headers, I bought them used. I'm not 100% sure on the history, but I believe they were around before the turner shorties (if anyone knows more about the HIOP headers, I'd love to know more about my headers).

Cabin, the res. is mounted with a corner bracket to the fuse box. If you are still interested, PM me your email address and I'd be happy to email you a few more close-ups of it.

[cormier]

^^ I'd be interested in those pix if you had a chance! I guess it wouldn't fit there with the booster mounted to the firewall tho eh?

[JRKOUPE]

ahhh..HIOP...a blast from the past.

[Jszy25]

With the filter on the maf like that its not allowing the maf to read correct there for making the engine run different.
I believe it was "CMT" that had a thread on it when he did a dyno on his engine. Also Jordan "Stuck" ran into this problem when he had his filter right on his maf with his supercharger setup.

I don't really agree with you here, but I definitely could be wrong.

I run a cone filter right off a bimmerworld elbow on my E36 M3 and it runs perfectly.

The issue with a supercharger setup had to do with the maf sensor being too close to the actual supercharger unit which the sensor did not like. I don't think it had anything to do with the filter<maf distance.

[White325is]

You dont have to believe me. I just share what I seen/read from dyno charts and tuning. After a little searching. This was on C-Ts car.

[bubbajan21]

^^ I'd be interested in those pix if you had a chance! I guess it wouldn't fit there with the booster mounted to the firewall tho eh?

My 2002 tii booster is mounted to the firewall and it fits fine. I'll post up some pics when I take them.

ahhh..HIOP...a blast from the past.

Do you know anything about HIOP? I'd love to know.