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Beer Baron Grand Master

Beer Baron

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guys, the personal insults are a bit much. let's tone that down a notch pls. hug.gif

johnny, I'm sure you can empathise with the people who were outraged by your temperature management techniques. it is a downright silly thing to do. and yes it does endanger other road users. I have seen bonnets fly open that were not shut properly and it's never pretty. it happens a lot at ammatuer trackdays and as a result people are now requried to affix additional methods of securing the bonnet shut. apart from the obvious danger the cooling benefit of this will not be as good as you think. engine bay airflow is very carefully managed from the factory. and messing it up often sees you go backwards cooling wise.

R33GTRKid Experienced

R33GTRKid

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Can any one offer constructive advice on my post - Ie the pic I have posted, should those pods be enclosed and if so, I know UAS?? do make one, are they any good, any difference between plstic, fibreglass and carbon fibre other than price and looks??

See last few items on this page: http://www.uniqueautosports.com/pricelists...t_gtrturbos.htm

Is it really a must?

(OO)SKYLINE(OO) Grand Master

(OO)SKYLINE(OO)

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  Johnny said:
Hey guys, Im jst about to purchase a pod filter kit for my r34 gtr, now i was going to go with apexi's kit but i was curious to the other brands such as hks, blitz, trust etc

My stock airbox is fine for power with an apexi panel filter but i would like a louder induction growl and i like the asthetics aspect too so im not just after wank factor.

I would like some pics of various setups if people have them and perhaps some feedback to their quality etc

here is one that i quite like; can anyone identify the brand for me?

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is this the apexi kit?

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thankyou in advance, i would much appreciate it.

-Johnny

That looks like Shepos GTR...

Anyway the 1st set of pods I think are M's but I believe the look very similar to Blitz pods

APexi look the nices IMO.

I have twin HKS pods atm. Does a great job, makes a nice chrisp sucking and 'Choo' noise. Also it get plenty of air as I have a snorkle feed air.

  4Door_33GTS said:
HKS look coolest and i know they sound good but i heard apexi flows best from a few reviews?

Thats whats in mine when I took you out for a drive at the dyno day LOL!

  Johnny said:
I also pop my bonnet when i drive at night while i drive to flow fresh/cold air right into the engine bay.

WTF! Seriously DO NOT DO IT AGAIN!

Buddy why do you think you have the grill part where your GTR badge is... To alow air flow.

Nissan designed the car as it is, you should not need to pop the bonnet while driving.

Also you have a NACA Duct on your bonnet to feed air into the engine above the turbo piping.

R31Nismoid Grand Master

R31Nismoid

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  Johnny said:
Dont bother boxing the pods up.

by adding a box your decreasing the volume of air avaliable for the turbos to suck up. regardless of the intake temps by the time the air is compressed by the turbochargers, the temperatures are very high (hence why we need an intercooler)

Not really no.

Same as an airbox, good for 380rwkw with a panel filter so if its getting enough air how is it any different?

And lower the intake charge the better, regardless of what the turbos and intercooler are doing, less cooling required - the better.

So its not regardless, its actually quite important

R31Nismoid Grand Master

R31Nismoid

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How is that anywhere near a test?

1. You had the bonnet up during the dyno, with the lid off the airbox

2. Then closed for the road, with the lid on the airbox

Two totally different scenarios, why are you even trying to compare the two?

And you dont just "BOX" the pods, you make inductions to them for gods sake, otherwise whats the point of even having a box?

Butler Proficient

Butler

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  Johnny said:
Trying to explain things to you is like booing at the special olympics.

You 'think' you are always right where i 'know' i am always right.

HAHAHA! i havent laughed so hard for a long time. I 'know' im always right about everything else in life aswell. :P Do your parents own this car? You really seem to have NFI how anything works on it. Everything that R31Nismoid has said has been spot on

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(OO)SKYLINE(OO) Grand Master

(OO)SKYLINE(OO)

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  Johnny said:
Ok i jst ordered the apexi kit.

My dyno results were 235awkw with the bonnet up and half the stock box removed + apexi panel + arc air diversion panel.

I put back the other half of the box and nismo snorkel to do a road test and found a loss in low/mid to top end power.

I will install the pods and take it back to the dyno for a power run (bonnet up/down) and open up another thread with the results.

If the pods are boxed off, there is less air avaliable (volume/litres) and that matters more then a few degrees of temp.

1st up, your on a dyno.

Make sure your on the same dyno as you do your testing as every dyno is different.

From my understanding, the 1st test you did was abit bias as you had removed the some of the air intake elements also you would have had a large fan blasting air right in front of your car to feed the intakes and keep your intercooler chilled.

Then you put everything back on at the road test you felt the power difference...

  Johnny said:
I dont take advice from jealous losers.

Its ok man, I don't think rb26s13 is jealous, BTW he as 2 x RB26DETT so there is no reason for him to be.

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