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Here's my cold air box with the lid on and off, cost me $180 or so I think? Very nice black and shiny fibreglass, took about half an hour to fit.

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If you want to look at some different angles, click these:

Front left

Front right

From above, minus lid

I did a big post-up a month or 2 ago, do a search in this forum for cold air box or something. I don't think any of the pics will still work because I've done a reshuffle of my webspace since then and I cbf'd fixing them :mad:

Originally posted by KILLER-T

Hi Whatsisname the compressor outlet pipe is on the outside of the box but the return one of the cooler goes through the box.You do make a good point  that pipe would get very hot i didnt think about that while i was fitting the box :mad:

As long as comp' O/L pipe heat is prevented from effecting the boxed area you're laughin' :P

Originally posted by JimX

Here's my cold air box with the lid on and off, cost me $180 or so I think? Very nice black and shiny fibreglass, took about half an hour to fit.

Skyline_enginebay2.jpg

Ummm... My pod is a lot bigger than that. Mine extends all the way to the side of the engine bay.

Jay will your box be big enough to house it???:confused:

Originally posted by riggaP

Ummm... My pod is a lot bigger than that. Mine extends all the way to the side of the engine bay.  

Jay will your box be big enough to house it???:confused:

i used Jays template 2, but without the lid coz my K/N filter was 2 big 2!

Originally posted by riggaP

Ummm... My pod is a lot bigger than that. Mine extends all the way to the side of the engine bay.  

Jay will your box be big enough to house it???:confused:

Erm, the box only goes on the engine side. There is nothing between that partition and the edge of the engine bay.

Originally posted by JimX

Erm, the box only goes on the engine side. There is nothing between that partition and the edge of the engine bay.

Yepp, that's it.

Other filters might fit, but like said before, the height might be an issue, and the HKS pods have a little piece of rubber between the AFM and the pod. What I've done is make the partition come down that rubber piece on an angle (you can see that in the pic.

Pending the size of your pod, and the way you run the partition down between the AFM and pod, it should fit a few other pods - not just the HKS one.

J

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