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yeah, but you can probably withdraw money from oz directly - even if it's not a creditcard. You just have to be aware that there's an $8 fee or something. Money comes out of the hole in the wall as ringit (sp) but is subtracted in Oz dolls from your account here, based on the exchange rate.

If so, PM me your account details and I can flip you some coin Troy - $30 pizza?

Bam - i want a speed meter!!!! YAya!!! Have you got your keycard there? does it have cirrus written on it?

hey bam - yeah, do you have a Bam-tastic keycard over there with an Aussie account? If so, you can just withdraw money deposited here using cirrus (about $4 a hit) otherwise to deposit into an account in MSIA, you're looking at setting up an international money transfewr, which is doable, it's just a bit of a pain in the arse... Hey, if you see a pivot speed meter there at that shop-thingo for less than $160, I want it!!!

hehe. hows the fast-bits shopping? cam tells me you're using your big-influence stick to arange some A1 racing deals or something or rather??

Moon tonight - no driving tho. It's a bit wet out.

Later niz, sorry bam - works getting worky. seen my bushman box thread yet?

Hows the land of big men and big knives!

hey bam!

Yay! go jaycar.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...9955#post409955

here it is. the bush-box revealed. as promised. In long-winded technicolour.

well, in true d.i.y.-er spirit, I refuse to be disheartened by my shitty end product. I have purchased some special shiny heat-foam insulation-foil stuff from clark rubber and intend to put this on the box. the hypothesis is that this should reduce the heatsoak and make the partition function like a little-champion. It will also hopefully improve the aestetics of the bush-box, which quite franlkly, looks....well, bush mechanic-y at the same time, I also hope to do a comparison between bush-box and no-box, which I can then compare to plush-box. will post photos results soon, pending dry day and digital camera access.

conclusion: the bushman-airbox (or bush-bitch-box) in it's current form is actually robbing take-off power under city driving conditions. At night-time, or with a good run of lights, the partition does work quite effectively, and does stop hot air from the engine/turbo/intercooler piping getting sucked directly into the box.

Tempurature in the partition is on the right - duh! number in the middle is the "ambient air" temperature. Note that I have seen this climb as high as mid 50-something degrees sitting at a crap set of lights on orrong/welshpool road, that take forever to change. whilst I expect that such a temperature increase is more than likely experienced when there is no partition at all.....there is unfortunately still some more bad news. the fact that the partition heats up soo much, means that there is now a radiative and conductive heat source placed CLOSER to the pod itself. subsequently, the air inside the box takes much longer to cool down than if air could flow freely through the intake without passing over a hot-ass partition! (note again that the above temp reading should be inlet air temp, not partition metal-sheet temp, which I would expect to be significantly higher) this is what happenned after about 5 minutes of driving (80-100 km/h) along the freeway from mywork, where the first pic was taken, to the exit near my house.

I found that, whilst the car was moving, the general flow through my box was quite impressive. generally, the temperature inside the box was around the same , if not lower than ambient air temps.. ......HOWEVER! there is a marked increase in the AIR temperature inside the box, resulting from heat soak through the partition and the lid, whenever the vehicle is stopped/moving slowly. this occurs after only a few minutes, such as when the turbo-timer is running .......or when you sit at the lights!

Enter the engineer in me. I figure the box is flowing some nice cool air, but - after a few decent "daily-drives", the box becomes HOT. as in - show ya mates ya "noice new box".... "...whooaa!! its hot dude! Yay! Heat soak!! :bahaha: " Fuelled by a burning desire to justify the entire day of hungover-finger slicing construction (at the infamous garage malaga), I decided to investigate further. I purchased an updated version of this thermometer from Jaycar, which can take a reading from a remote sensor, which I installed in the box.. the sensor itself is held onto the bodywork, directly in-front of the pod-screw. According to basic fluid dynamics, this is where the greatest flow should be from. note that the sensor is stuck on the metal of the body using double-sided tape, ahich should insulate the sensor from the actual metal. This was performed in order to try and measure as accurately as possible the temperature of the inlet air, prior to reaching the AFM. The sensor does not directly contact metal, and should therefore be free from conductive type heat transfer from either the bodywork or the box itself.

Like many other people - in fact surprisingly more than I originally thought, judging from the recent SST SAUWA dyno-day - I elected to use a fairly thin "bunnings-spec" 2mm thick aluminium sheeting to construct the box. this is shown nicely in the photo of the inside of the box. note the flimsyness of the lid and the quality of the construction.

Note that I have incporpotated a feed from the standard airbox feed. this is in addition to the air which will naturally flow past the headlights and the front grill/bar. I have also incorporated a lid, which should perform roughly the same job as sealing a "walled" partition against the underside of the bonnet.

Ok, following a number or resounding endorsements from team members on this forum, I tracked down Jay95s CAI partition template from this thread, and, with a few minor modifications, constructed what can only be termed a "rough" example of a cai partition.

for the extra 25rwkw of coarse!

hey whores. anyone around?

Link is broke. There's a new import store in Perth or try marlows (supercheap)

Jay95, the bushman airbox is indeed a very over-rated piece of home-kit. Stay tuned for the expose, to be posted tommorrow when I can be arsed (and Im working on work-time )

then you will think.....gee! I wonder what happenned to being able to eat shit all the time and still be skinny. But I have resigned myself to a gradual process of training myself to not eat crap. It wunt heppen ovanoit, bit it will heppen!