Rossa Air Intake

[niko14311]

Heya,

Just wondered,
anyone ever thought about re-routing the air intake of the arosa?
i mean, does it really get alot of air in the wheel arch? behind the lining?
admitedly i'm abit of a nooooobie when it comes to mods but onebody got any experience of this?
I mean, i know there are induction kits but they live in hot engine air so im not such a fan,
but i would have a thought a bigger air intake from the front grill would (although suffer from spray) get more air into the filter box?

Any ideas would be muchos appreciated
cheers

nick

 

[warren_cox]

It may be looking into what the Lupo GTI uses to see if it is any more effective than your current intake.

Your under bonnet temps won't be critically high as you have no turbo, but you could easily address a big percentage of this from a simple exhaust wrap to combat the rest.

Can't imaging many companies make Arosa intakes as the Lupo / Arosa were low volume cars. Youre more likely to find they do open cone filters.

It's one area of my Lupo GTi I left standard. Smoothed out the airbox and had it remapped, but didn't do a lot more to it's engine.

 

[trebormint]

It may be looking into what the Lupo GTI uses to see if it is any more effective than your current intake.

Your under bonnet temps won't be critically high as you have no turbo, but you could easily address a big percentage of this from a simple exhaust wrap to combat the rest.

Can't imaging many companies make Arosa intakes as the Lupo / Arosa were low volume cars. Youre more likely to find they do open cone filters.

It's one area of my Lupo GTi I left standard. Smoothed out the airbox and had it remapped, but didn't do a lot more to it's engine.

He has a turbo,he drives a 1.4tdi.

My girlfriend has an arosa 1.4tdi, and the air does seem to take a torturous route.

 

[niko14311]

yeah, thats what I was thinking,
whether it'll make any difference or not i dunno,
i guess its getting into the whole,
less air but cleaner or more "dirty" air
i mean, i guess they put the air intake there for a reason :s

 

[warren_cox]

Intakes are a funny thing, and sometimes on smaller engine cars you see more elaborate intakes than you do on more expensive ones which are just direct feed.

A mate of mine had a 1.6 Polo Mk5, and it had a split intake which rerouted the air under different operating temperatures to maximise torque (or so he was led to believe). Car didn't have much torque anyway (it was a 104bhp circa 96lb/ft torque), but it was amazing the lengths VW seemed to have gone to for an intake.

Is this what your engine looks like?

 

[niko14311]

hi warren,
yeah, that is pretty much the same,
the air intake is below the fuel filter and the air filter housing (furthest left on that picture)
in the top of the wheel arch,

That split intake sounds abit elaborate! and was that as standard or something he did himself?
I wouldnt have thought the operating temp really made all that much difference to the air flow
and if it did why you wouldnt just leave it set up for high air temps?
surely it would burn better with cooler air?
humm what a puzzler!