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Yeah...I used a dremel around the light after I saw how the stock tube worked....now after looking at my Jetta, I might come up with something better...
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Yeah...I used a dremel around the light after I saw how the stock tube worked....now after looking at my Jetta, I might come up with something better...
I love new ideas - looking forward to reading what 'yer thinkin'.
In case we're not able to keep the link to Chris's pics, here's another. Hopefully we can keep Chris's pics, though - mine is of quite poor quality - I'm not sure what happened to my better ones.
This site hasn't even been open for a year, yet.??? Or do you mean to say that the mod/member you are talking about used to (or maybe still does) belong to The Page?
I'm curious - why the push to point out someone here did things? I certainly wasn't trying to say I invented the idea. I did it about 2 or 3 years ago and wasn't aware of anyone trimming the plastic at that time, but I doubt I was the first one to do it. If my post came across differently, I apologize - it certainly wasn't meant that way. I only wanted to offer the OP some more info that might help him.
I saw what Chris did to his signal lights. For me, I'd be pretty hesitant to chew up my signal lights like that. I'd much rather just put working fender vents in if I needed them. Yes, I'd have to chew a big hole in the fender, but at least it would look custom.
No offense, just my personal preferences.
-Rob
Sorry, Dennis ... my exuberance got away on me. I wasn't trying to 'push' anything, and wasn't aware you had done the dremel thing; it wasn't obvious from your earlier post, or I wouldn't have mentioned it.
As for the screen mesh, it was one of our 6.5 mods that did that, nvmtnlion. He mentioned it just the other day, here. Post 12. That's why I remembered it so fast (I'm old; usually it's a bit more hit-and-miss than that)
Chris, did you use your teeth to trim yours? J/K :rolleyes5:
Pics I posted were of rough cuts to give folks the general idea....obviously it has been taken back off and cleaned up
:rolleyes5:
Didn't have the scanner before hand to check IATs....
Too many changes between my 17 second run and my 16 second run to pinpoint exact increases....
Thanks. Although I suppose would have been more accurate if I would have said it was similar to a boat's stern wake when going in reverse. The stern of a boat looks a lot more like the front of our trucks than the bow does! Ever see a boat going reverse? It's anything but pretty!
This doesn't make sense. The factory filter box is thermally insulated from the engine bay, and draws cold air from the fender. Therefore, it IS a "cold-air intake". Putting in a better filter, such as the Amsoil unit, will help increase the airflow while maintaining decent air filtration.
That's why so many of the gang are telling you to stay with what you have. What is it you are looking for?
-Rob
I would not go there TT, certainly not insulated too well, I've been playing with some data gathering on ambient temps seen at air box, I have a indoor outdoor thermo unit with wireless outdoor transmitter, that I located in my air box, depending on ambienet conditions I'm finding that in the botttom of a round air box temps run 10-20 degrees hotter than outside air, which means the air box itself is picking up more heat than I thought possible from the engine.
And when I shut the truck off, heat soak underhood in airbox is over 130+ as that is when temp is so high the remote unit is out of sensing range, and I get a flashing temp display.
Tim -
I always admire when someone answers a question with hard facts and actual measured data.
I wonder whether putting insulation around the box would make much difference?
Perhaps I am reacting to the so-called CAI units, where they seem completely inadequate to me, at least in terms of thermal protection from engine compartment heat. Many of them seem worse than stock.
From what I understand, the actual size of the stock unit (esp. if you use a high-flow unit like Amsoil) is actually quite adequate for the max CFM draw, so if the thermal transfer problem could be solved, it would be fine to stay with what we have (with a little improvement).
Hmmm. I'll have to walk the hardware store aisles to see what can be used. Need to get a remote thermometer as well.. Hmmm.
-Rob
Dennis you probably could do same thing with a fan or high speed blower ie leaf blower, sort of what they do in a wind tunnel test, put pennants on whatever surface you want to watch the flow over and look for the dead flow zones