an interesting find...

[Eug]

Ok here's the story...

Car is completely stock, no power mods, only suspension bits.

January - Installed a pod filter, only a crappy cardboard (template) heatshield.

- Ran on the dyno, made 108.4rwkw (at night).

Got off my arse, and decided to make a proper heatshield and decided to throw in the stock airbox snorkel to see if it made a difference. See here

On the street the car seems to accelerate a little more smoothly.

I was keen to see what difference the snorkel had done.

May - Proper heatshield and snorkel installed.

- Ran on the same dyno, made 108.0rwkw (at midday).

Here are the two dyno-charts.

Ok the 2nd run made 0.4 less kw - and I took into account that it was due to

ambient temperature. Either way 0.4 is not very much, and indicates that the dyno is reading correctly.

But what's more important are the AFR's, just by installing a snorkel + heatshield, I have smoothed out the air and fuel mixtures.

This may be something to consider, to those who have pod filters and those who think they may need a SAFC to fix their ratio's.

Hope this helps.

Eugene

[paully_tee]

i find the snorkel a bit to restrictive so got a CAI built up instead, still need to get the heat shield soughted out but.

[Eug]

paully_tee: would it be possibleto post up pictures of this custom intake?

I am just saying that alot of people tend to take off the snorkel when installing a pod filter,

and proven that it is in fact a reasonable idea to throw it back in if you dont want a custom intake made up.

Also taking out the passenger headlight for a run down the strip may prove beneficial.

Eugene

[gatty]

check out mine:

http://www.filejunkies.net/sighost/images/airbox1.jpg

http://www.filejunkies.net/sighost/images/airbox2.jpg

i am planning to get a 100mm hole saw and make a hole direcly below where the pod sits and run a bit of 100mm duct from just behind frontbar

[paully_tee]

yep, will post pics up shortly then, just gotta find the camera.

[Greg]

check out mine:

http://www.filejunkies.net/sighost/images/airbox1.jpg

http://www.filejunkies.net/sighost/images/airbox2.jpg

i am planning to get a 100mm hole saw and make a hole direcly below where the pod sits and run a bit of 100mm duct from just behind frontbar

I have done this but haven;t run a pipe (ie there is just a hole for the pod to suck through). didn't notice much difference.