Finally fitted...The verdict so far
Finally got the bits today and fitted them....gonna be a bit of a mixed verdict here so please read all.
First this is how I went about fitting them:
Firstly I took out the airbox and the old "pipe" and the top part air intake around the head light. This was all fairly easy and I'm sure many of you have done this before, jsut a few screws and a nut.
Then it came to remove the bottom bit of plastic which goes below the head light, and forms part of the air intake...this is a right pain it the backside to get out...i ended up removing the battery, and the plastic tray under the batter, still no joy something was holding it on. The are a couple plastic bolts which hold it in on the sides and 2 underneath hidden away.
I took away the near side wheel arch lining and jacked the car up and you can get a better view from here. After going at it for a fair while managed to prize them out and the bit of plastic came free all be it a little bit cracked....not to worry I have a new one to replace that with i thought.....and its got a nice big hole.
so with all the old bits out I came to try and fit the new bits.
I managed to make the hole into my
lower airbox big enough to take the new large pipe. If you take the rubber bit surrounding the hole off in one peice you can use it on the new pipe to make it fit the hole better.
then came fitting the bits around the headlight...due to them being deeper they dont fit properly
however with some persuasion I got the bottom tray in and connected to the new large pipe "result!".
The battery and everything else fitted in ok....however the new upper plastic air intake around the air intake would not go in, I tryed cutting bits off etc...it may still go in once i've shortened it but I was losing patience with it.
so what I have done is used the old "upper part" of the head light intake which kinda fits and looks ok....however there is a gap of an inch or which isn't covered so I may be losing some "forced air effect".
so I need to look at it again maybe.
However the difference so far
- an improvement in induction noise (especially at heavy throttle)
- Better/smoother acceleration
- throttle feels more responsive
- haven't tryed yet but i'm expecting top end to be better as car feels like it has plenty more to give
Overall verdict is....it's a worth while mod. However it may be far simpler to just purchase the larger pipe, and cut a bigger hole in your old head light intake plastic.
any developments I'll post....any body else trys this I'd like to hear from to!
Oh yeh another piece of good news....still room for the HID ballast!
