Cold Air Intake 4 Mk3

[Isphius]

Mine is upsidedown and it runs fine. From the throttle body Mine goes straigh out and it has an open k&n on the end of it. Its in the space where the charcoal canister goes.

[j3pz]

was readign this and thought of a good way to keep the maf and filter where it is and clean up the area a lil... a heat shield box. gonna have it made outa polished alum and enclose the afm and intake. shields it away from the hot air in the engine bay and hopefully wont look like shit. then you can run tubing or whatever to the box... what you say bout that?

[Supra2NR]

why use metal as a heatshield? arent metal the best conductor of heat?
jus find sum heat resistant materials, and go from there

[j3pz]

why metal? why did our cars come with metal heat shields for the turbo? its only to keep the hot air from the engine bay going into the filter, and it will help clean up that corner of the bay.

[Supra2NR]

its metal on the turbo and the downpipe bcuz the turbo and downpipe are one of the hottest parts from the engine bay, its metal cuz its suppose to contain heat from the engine bay,and its not a metal heatshield its a heatsink, diffrence is the shield is suppose to keep heat away, sink is suppose to absorbe heat so it will be away from the unit, since the turbo produces heat itself , the heatsink provieds protection from the engine bay heat and at the same time it absorbs the heat created by the turbo

but your intake does not produce heat therefore, having heat stay in the area where you have your filter, is not gonna b any benefit to you, you cannot use the same principle as the heatshield on the turbo, with your intake you wanna try the best you can to deflect that heat coming from the engine bay

i got barely a drawing trying to explain what i mean

[j3pz]

ok jsut dont bother than. im just trying to suggest a way to keep the hot air in the engine bay away from the intake and hide the maf you so dearly hate. maybe use a composite material than?

[theWeezL]

Originally Posted by Supra2NR

its metal on the turbo and the downpipe bcuz the turbo and downpipe are one of the hottest parts from the engine bay, its metal cuz its suppose to contain heat from the engine bay,and its not a metal heatshield its a heatsink, diffrence is the shield is suppose to keep heat away, sink is suppose to absorbe heat so it will be away from the unit, since the turbo produces heat itself , the heatsink provieds protection from the engine bay heat and at the same time it absorbs the heat created by the turbo

but your intake does not produce heat therefore, having heat stay in the area where you have your filter, is not gonna b any benefit to you, you cannot use the same principle as the heatshield on the turbo, with your intake you wanna try the best you can to deflect that heat coming from the engine bay

i got barely a drawing trying to explain what i mean

Damn '2NR! look at you all pimpin the mad drawing skillz and shee'at! Very well explained and intelligent responce...I give ya 9 out of 10 for that one!

(weez) -> ->(Supra2NR)

[Supra2NR]

thank you , thank you, jus trying to help out other like others helped me,

hopefully this thread will help pple in the future making thier cold air intakes