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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: dragongreen16v on 03 May 2004, 11:00

Title: Restrictor in air box
Post by: dragongreen16v on 03 May 2004, 11:00

On my 16v, if you open the air box you'll see a long conical shaped thing on the intake. It can easilly un-clip....so I did. I took it for a test drive and didn't know how it would affect it, I noticed more torque from 80-110! Why is it there? It just seems to restrict air if anything.

Title: Re:Restrictor in air box
Post by: Overseer on 03 May 2004, 11:05

restrictor, or filter?

Title: Re:Restrictor in air box
Post by: Veedubgt18v on 03 May 2004, 11:22

its a restrictor you can flow more air without it

Title: Re:Restrictor in air box
Post by: Veedubgt18v on 03 May 2004, 11:23

that was my 1000th post!  :D

Title: Re:Restrictor in air box
Post by: dragongreen16v on 03 May 2004, 11:44

Congratulations!!
Did a bit of research on the net, and it's one of the only free mods that will give you 5 more horses. Apparently, it acts as a silencer. Sound OK without.

Title: Re:Restrictor in air box
Post by: Veedubgt18v on 03 May 2004, 12:42

now drill the box and get a k+n panel filter!

Title: Re:Restrictor in air box
Post by: dragongreen16v on 03 May 2004, 12:44

If you drill the box, isn't that defeating the objective of having a filter? Where would I drill it and what size hole?

Title: Re:Restrictor in air box
Post by: Veedubgt18v on 03 May 2004, 12:49

drill the box on the front and wing side, not the engine side! you drill below the level of the filter, in the bit that had the resonator tube, that way more air can get to the filter. i drilled holes 1 inch across

Title: Re:Restrictor in air box
Post by: old_boy on 12 May 2004, 14:23

Thanks for the tip! ;)