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Finishing a smoothed airbox
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CupraTgirl said:
james (cu5ra) has a BMC CDA in his cupra beeza!
they do universal sizes so u can get one for ur car... have a word with him!
i know my m8 with a polo GTi has one... u prob need the same kit?!
as for where u can get one from... i know carnoisseur does them, cos i told nicky(ice maiden) to go there, and she did yesterday!
J@mes said:would rather sand it smooth, because id always have in the back of my mind... i wonder if is starting to crack and fall apart?!
Fine on the inlet side cos that's what the filter is designed to stop
Good key needed though
Ruddmeister said:Fine on the inlet side cos that's what the filter is designed to stop
Good key needed though
yea i know that, but u still need to smooth the top half of the box (where theres no filter!)
also if it did crack up and flake off it would be making the air flow less efficient!
would mean u would have to cheak every so often!
just use elbow grease peeps and smooth ur boxes!
even if u did use filler, think of the time that would take to do that! u may aswell just smooth is with sandpaper!
J@mes said:james (cu5ra) has a BMC CDA in his cupra beeza!
they do universal sizes so u can get one for ur car... have a word with him!
i know my m8 with a polo GTi has one... u prob need the same kit?!
as for where u can get one from... i know carnoisseur does them, cos i told nicky(ice maiden) to go there, and she did yesterday!
I think i will do that
Thank you
J@mes said:yea i know that, but u still need to smooth the top half of the box (where theres no filter!)
also if it did crack up and flake off it would be making the air flow less efficient!
would mean u would have to cheak every so often!
just use elbow grease peeps and smooth ur boxes!
even if u did use filler, think of the time that would take to do that! u may aswell just smooth is with sandpaper!
Believe it was tried and tested with logs etc on Vortex or CGTi and worked very well...........Feel may know where it was.......must be 2 year + ago now
Ruddmeister said:Believe it was tried and tested with logs etc on Vortex or CGTi and worked very well...........Feel may know where it was.......must be 2 year + ago now
i do believe it works rudd its just i would never do it! i mean y when in the same if not less time u can make it smooth with sandpaper!
i did before and after logs my way and got a 3% increase in airflow!
I would take a guess that smoothing the top (filtered side) of the box is far more important than the bottom. I'd think there's a good 'reservoir' of air underneath the filter (especially if the box has a good feed) - it's getting out of the box that's important.
What kind of difference did this make James? Truly noticeable or more placebo?J@mes said:i did before and after logs my way and got a 3% increase in airflow!
And can the smoothing of the standard airbox be done? and will it result in similar gains?
Ruddmeister said:Believe it was tried and tested with logs etc on Vortex or CGTi and worked very well...........Feel may know where it was.......must be 2 year + ago now
I think it was GaryM on ukmkivs.
Or there's this:
http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=90345
(I must do some more logging with the other MAF.)
Ok thanksJ@mes said:
Cool. Thought so, was just checkingJ@mes said:wat u mean can the smoothing of the standard airbox be done?????
thats wat i did!
Think I'm gonna do the same, but not the new feed or battery relocation. Too much effortJ@mes said:i also fitted a green pannel filter and fitted a 100mm heavy duty green cold air feed (with the help of feel's battery relocation brakets!
Feel said:
If you're worried about sizes etc, give 'em a ring.
I will see if they give me a response! It may even be cheaper for my car?
jaybeee said:Ok thanks
Cool. Thought so, was just checking
Think I'm gonna do the same, but not the new feed or battery relocation. Too much effort
the new cold air feed is the most effective part IMHO!
the standard feed is soooooooo tiny (you couldnt fit ur d*ck inside it!
)my feed...
That looks like one of those games where you are blindfolded and you have to put your hand in and pick something out and then guess what it is
They did one like that on The Crystal Maze where you put you hand into these big gloves and move them around to do the game...ANYWAY
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