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 cold air feed location
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Leigh_f
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:38 am

Right just got given some very nice steel flexi tube to use as cold air feeds, question is without chopping holes in bumpers/ panels; where, from peoples experience, is the best place to pick up cold air feeds? i want to avoid below bumper as it just gets trashed on the road and too much road crap get's in.
Cheers
Chris H
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:50 am

you need an area of high pressure my good man, infront of the windscreen or in the wheel arches.

Unless you want to start cutting holes.
Leigh_f
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:56 am

any where in the wheel arch will do then?
matbe a silly question, bu has anyone successfully use the bonnet vent as a cold air feed? surely that recieves a good flow into it?
Chris H
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:00 am

it receives no flow at all, its good for catching rain though.

wheel arch area is good but the stock location is the best really, assuming you have the feed into the rad surrond version
Leigh_f
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:47 am

no my original feed goes under the passenger front light. was looking at the rad surround area last night. was looking how to get the hole saw in to create a nice hole. Cheers for the help Chris
aj_mackay1
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:24 am

I'd have thought that any feed with a 90 degree bend or even less would have hardly any pressured air going through it, I'm gonna try Morette headlamps with the inner n/s light removed and a direct line coming out from a PiperX viper or similar - any good ya reckon? Should work well on a Valver although the throttle body does point backwards abit Sad
schakal
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:50 am

i had a quite radical project about this issue ,never got around doing it though .
JB knows about this
aj_mackay1
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:45 pm

does JB have the morette headlamp set-up with cold air feed? i'd imagine it would work well as the air flying into the feed at 70+mph would be pretty pressured and cold Smile
JB
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 5:36 am

JB does not have silly headlights
Chet T16
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:28 am

Jonnyboy wrote:
JB does not have silly headlights


rofl
schakal
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:50 am

Laughing
Gentle Ben
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:47 pm

PMSL!
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