My Last MOD!! Custom Turbo Air FIlter HeatShield (pics)

[diegom6]

Just to share with yall...

Since always I run hard the car (even when not too) the engine bay get a lot of head, more than that, the air filter sure is sucking a good amount of hot air masscoming from the bay.

These are the pics where the the shield is almost ready, now is in the procces of paint and then I will add some aluminum shield in the rear panel to reflect a bit of the heat produced by the turbo exahust housing...

The panels are presented here in the crude looking..soon wil be painted and will ook nice. Tomorrow I should finish it and will post more pics... :P


The panels are tighted and just one screw is required to tight them, also it's almost sealed the panels.














Opinions?? COments?? DOn't give shitt plz..

[325is_e30]

looks good :)

[E30godz]

how are you tuning your car?

[KenC]

You should take it out and spray it with rubberized undercoating spray. It'll make it look a lot better than bare sheet-metal, and it will insulate much better than bare metal.

[diegom6]

E30 Godz, I'm almost finished installing my SMT6 , tool wich I will tune my engine...I will keep you posted about it...now I have ran only 90miles and didn't pass the rev from 3000 RPM

KEn, yes I have to paint it, like I said above....I will use the same color and paint as I did in my intake charge pipes...will be done by tomorrow,, I will post some pics of it..

[E30godz]

but you have raced people etc etc before, how did you tune your engine before?

[diegom6]

but you have raced people etc etc before, how did you tune your engine before?

I didn't tune it...just as it came from facotry...the last upgrade was the 21LB/h injectors, when I was pushing arround 8-9 PSI and well the 10 PSI range too...with the only help of a FMU and IC

[E30godz]

interesting!

[BS87]

And you still have not cleaned the filter :P

[diegom6]

And you still have not cleaned the filter :P

hahahaha, really I cleaned, last week I did it...the only thing that I didn't is put the oil coat on the filter....but is clean...the color gone for some reason( cheap filter, is AROSPEED) :P

[E30godz]

i dont know if i would bother cleaning anything but one that says it can be cleaned (aka K&N)

[diegom6]

Ok, here is the almost finished Air Box HeatShield, now is painted, only left the the aluminum reflrctive apaer to add the side wall, it's on the way!








:D

[skat 325is]

CABRON !

Looks nice man !! :) :)

[BrianF 88iS]

That doesnt look to sturdy, like it might break apart or something. :evil:
I dont know much about turbos and stuff, so what does that do for it?

[SlammedE30]

Brian, it isolates the air filter from the (very hot) turbo. Cooler air = denser air = more power.
-Ted