dont remove your headlight

[Danny]

At least he can do math.

Kinda.

[Asbradley21]

But you're an idiot.

[bimmer_E30]

wow, go away, you dont even have an e30, and you say the same exact thing every post, I'm doing a 5 speed swap. my e30 runs amazing and i really want to start rallying an e30 so i'll be getting anther one pretty soon, I've driven plenty of manual cars and there all tons of fun but I got my e30 as an auto so oh well. the lot(pontiac) i got the car from said it had a shift kit, but its most likely just a drilled valve body. at least i can enjoy my e30 for what it is, its my reliable DD and i love it. and before you say it, yes i'm going to keep the bottle caps.

lol common man i was just kidding with you. i love your e30... hey i have an autotragic E32 too

[der affe]

let the hate flow!

post count!

[kamotors]

autotragic fail hahahah common ka we all know that you have an autotragic e30 ..jk.

wow, go away, you dont even have an e30, and you say the same exact thing every post, I'm doing a 5 speed swap. my e30 runs amazing and i really want to start rallying an e30 so i'll be getting anther one pretty soon, I've driven plenty of manual cars and there all tons of fun but I got my e30 as an auto so oh well. the lot(pontiac) i got the car from said it had a shift kit, but its most likely just a drilled valve body. at least i can enjoy my e30 for what it is, its my reliable DD and i love it. and before you say it, yes i'm going to keep the bottle caps.

[z31maniac]

autotragic fail hahahah common ka we all know that you have an autotragic e30 ..jk.

Hahahaha, zomg you'rrzz so funniezz and original.

At least he has an E30 you douchebag and is doing what he can with it.

[z31maniac]

I'm going to have a CF splitter made over the winter as well, and the fogs are already gone. So I think I'll enlarge the "faux" brake duct and pipe it in from there.

[bimmer_E30]

autotragic fail hahahah common ka we all know that you have an autotragic e30 ..jk.

[kamotors]

How did you cut out the grille area? also what piping did you use?

nothing it cut I just took advantage of how the grill already is, Its basically all K&N parts except for the elbow.

[Zacm829]

yeah the way it is in the pics is just redirecting outside air into the conefilter area, but it could hook upto the stock airbox,or ram air filter.

How did you cut out the grille area? also what piping did you use?

[kamotors]

yeah the way it is in the pics is just redirecting outside air into the conefilter area, but it could hook upto the stock airbox,or ram air filter.

[der affe]

if you are doing something like the OP is and just DUCTING the air to your cone filter hanging inside a heat shield, it is pretty unlikely that you will suck up water. you are just trying to force as much air (colder then engine compartment air) to the filter as possible

if you have the cone filter mounted down low where it can get into the water, yes you can suck in water. we used to call them straws.

[z31maniac]

I think what he means is that as air travels between the car, it gets slowed down and bundled up (due to viscous (friction) forces- Bernoilli's equation only applies when viscous forces are negligible). This creates a high-pressure area under the car that is higher than ambient pressure, so theoretically if your engine drew its air from there, it would get more mass than, say, behind the headlight because there's more force pushing the air into a hole than there would be if the hole was elsewhere. Before you think too hard about it, though, you'd have to be moving pretty quickly to build up enough total pressure to see a positive effect, and I'd be very concerned about road debris, water, etc.

Yeah, I would definitely not want to have the intake tube mounted that low. Like most of us that are on coilovers doing that would mean the tube would be 3 1/2 or inches off the ground, must too close for my comfort.

But the brake duct seems like a better compromise.

[z31maniac]

water isn't going to travel UP the air tube and in your filter, so you're ok.

Wrong again hippie.

A close friend of mine blew the motor in his Integra from precisely that, water got sucked up the AEM CAI and into the motor and BANG, no more workie.

And if that doesn't happen, explain why the big CAI manufacturers (AEM for example) now put valves inside the intakes before the throttle body to evacuate any water that gets inside.

[kamotors]

I understand the high pressure thing, this was just an easy convenient location to put it, going from the brake duct require either cutting a hole in the car or a few bends and hope that it doesn't hit the alternator.I was amazed how much room was behind the grill in that area, the hose goes directly from the grill, under the high beam, and straight to the filter( the pipe is very rigid so it holds shape really well.)