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what you could do with it. is mount it so the filter is facing the radiator. sure its not having air forced in to it. but its also not sucking hot air. the air hitting the back of the filter housing would act similar to an intercooler as it would get cooled by the air. or mb that just works in my head.

personally i would go for a pod in the engine bay with a good cold airbox and a cold air feed. removing the little rubber thing about the passangers side headlight helps get a little more air in there :D you can run a cold air feed with out cutting in to the body. just run it up behind the drivers headlight. i have had 2 PVC pipes running to it. and i have also had a bit of metal bent up with sides to direct the air up there.. both of those workd alright.

if u mount in front of radiator, dont expect radiator to work as well.

also dont forget that if rain needs to get in on a 45 deg angle to get in, that u dont need 45deg angled rain to do this - you only need you car to be moving forward at a decent speed

your largest raindrops have a terminal velocity of about 30-35km/h - so to get rain to come in at a 45deg angle, you only need to be driving at that speed.

your average light rain or drizzle is around the 15km/h mark, so again you only need to travel at that speed for the rain to be coming in at 45deg.

travel twice the speed its now coming in on a 60deg angle - and quickly you see how easily it will be for water to get in there if its facing an open airflow from front of car

if you look closely the front mount air cleaner has a perspex plate in front of it with holes in it and spaced out from air cleaner , i dont think water would be a problem , water injection anybody ? cooling possibly a problem ,depending how close mounted to radiator .

if u wore shoes with holes in them, would your socks get wet when it rains? no different here

they are purely for rice factor, it that isnt already bleedingly obvious. if your even considering them then you know the ricer inside of you is in control more than the logical minded skyline owner.

mate each to there own , i feel the ram pod style is the best from experience, just everybody was complaining about water problems,there is a deflector on it to reduce the problem ,a little bit of water cant hurt a motor ,but if you go through a creek .....

its no longer a ram pod if its got persplex in front of it. its got the worst of both worlds - no forced air assisstance, and it still gets wet if its mount where its visible (as you would, so u can show it off of course :P)

This airfilter may be ideal for bonnet scoop applications where the scoop sits center of the bonnet above the rocker cover just like a top mount intercooler.

but yeh still seems a bit rice for me, im simple... pod, sheild and ducting :P

Edited by adox

if your going to have ducting to your pod filter you can make sure its not aiming at your pod so if any water gets in there it dusnt go strait in your airfilter or you can block off the hole either in the engine bay or in the front of the bumper. when its raining the air is gennerally colder so you will still feel some benifits of the colder air.

easyest way for cold air.. remove the headlight :P even tho it dus look arse.

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