Air intake mod complete
Air intake mod complete
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From: Galveston, TX
No offense intended at all, but it looks kind of like overkill to me. Half of the stock box WITH a conical filter. My previous setup (Thanks to Talleywacker) looked just like this.
Last edited by Charles F.; Jul 1, 2002 at 01:04 AM.
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Charles- No offense taken.
I said the same thing to myself when I was coming up with the idea. The reason I did the mod like I did was because I already had the huge conical filter leftover from my days racing late model mustangs.
The tube that joins the K&N to the stock MAF plate is made of phenolic material (spun nylon fibers in a resin binder) and is glass smooth on the inside. The Talley-style mod is very, very good. I am not putting it down at all. I originally intended to do the mod exactly like he does it. But after looking at the way the intake tract was arranged I knew that there were some ways the mod could be more effective.
The stock and Talley set-ups use the short 'top-hat' style filter and rely on the airhorn plate that the MAF bolts onto to straighten and direct the airflow through the sensor. I simply ran phenolic tube that is EXACTLY the same size as the MAF Inside diameter through the (heavily massaged) airhorn plate and into the K&N. The filter will straighten the airflow and then it's a very laminar (straight) shot through the sensor. No airflow reversion whatsoever. I wanted to keep the velocity through the intake tract (and the MAF) as high as possible. Isn't that the idea behind the mod in the 1st place? Yes, the filter is quite big. But there will be little or no pressure drop through it and the velocity remains quite a bit faster than the O.E. set-up. And for a normally aspirated motor this is just what the doctor ordered.
Later,
I said the same thing to myself when I was coming up with the idea. The reason I did the mod like I did was because I already had the huge conical filter leftover from my days racing late model mustangs.
The tube that joins the K&N to the stock MAF plate is made of phenolic material (spun nylon fibers in a resin binder) and is glass smooth on the inside. The Talley-style mod is very, very good. I am not putting it down at all. I originally intended to do the mod exactly like he does it. But after looking at the way the intake tract was arranged I knew that there were some ways the mod could be more effective.
The stock and Talley set-ups use the short 'top-hat' style filter and rely on the airhorn plate that the MAF bolts onto to straighten and direct the airflow through the sensor. I simply ran phenolic tube that is EXACTLY the same size as the MAF Inside diameter through the (heavily massaged) airhorn plate and into the K&N. The filter will straighten the airflow and then it's a very laminar (straight) shot through the sensor. No airflow reversion whatsoever. I wanted to keep the velocity through the intake tract (and the MAF) as high as possible. Isn't that the idea behind the mod in the 1st place? Yes, the filter is quite big. But there will be little or no pressure drop through it and the velocity remains quite a bit faster than the O.E. set-up. And for a normally aspirated motor this is just what the doctor ordered.
Later,
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Did you insert tubing into the stock piping going from the TB to the stock airbox, if not you're going to lose your velocity in there. The flow in there is designed to be super turbulent, not sure why, and the turbulence really slows stuff down. Any velocity you're gaining at the MAF will be negated in the tubing if you don't do something with that.
I just took fluids last semester
I just took fluids last semester