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Re: Huge hole in air box?
« Reply #10 on: 17 August 2011, 13:32 »
Firstly I removed my fog light then got a bit of mesh out of a skip.  I sprayed the mesh with 2 coats of primer then 4 coats of Dragon Green.  Also I found in another skip  (I love skips..... amazing what you can find!!)  a 3.5" diameter by 15" long hose, not got a clue what its original use was?!  Anyway I housed this where the fog light should be and took it directly to the intake of the airbox so a nice direct feed with hardly any bends and only needed 7" of the hose to be able to reach so a minimal intake of hose required.

I should of done a step by step guide but it is very easy to do.

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Re: Huge hole in air box?
« Reply #11 on: 17 August 2011, 13:57 »
Lets be honest, as far as hydrolocking is concerned, if there is a massive puddle in the middle of the road, which is deep enough for this to happen, your not gonna be booting it at the time anyway. Your gonna be off the gas and going nice and slowly, therefore your air intake is pretty unlikely to suck it up. Fair enough though if you wanna be cautious, I asked the same question when I did mine. Just really dont see the point in sacrificing something for the sake of another as you would be doing by removing the fog. Do you have aircon? Dunno if it would work as I have aircon so wont fit on mine, but is there enough room between your rad and grille to do it?
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Re: Huge hole in air box?
« Reply #12 on: 17 August 2011, 14:55 »
I've been running mine from the lower bumper vent for over a year (one of my feeds anyway) and there is next to no chance of you hydrolocking your car.  The vent isnt on the floor anyway, it's at a sufficient height and as previously said, if you are stupid enough to go through a puddle that is big enough, ie a foot deep, at any kind of speed, you deserve to screw your car up.  It just wont happen. 

Picture as well, that you need to suck up water with enough force to go all the way up the pipe (with an ID of roughly 70mm), into the airbox and then up through the filter and then into the Inlet air pipe and into the Manifold.  The surface area is too large to create a suction strong enough to suck up enough water to do any damage, let alone it getting through filter etc. 

You would suck up less than what alot of people do when they steam clean their engines using the 'water trick' (do a search on here or clubgti) and neither I nor anyone else have had any adverse effects from that either.

Your foglight mod does however look pretty good.. much better than the horrible tube I've seen sticking out on some peoples motors, nicely done  :cool:
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Re: Huge hole in air box?
« Reply #13 on: 17 August 2011, 17:11 »


Your foglight mod does however look pretty good.. much better than the horrible tube I've seen sticking out on some peoples motors, nicely done  :cool:

Thank you mate  :smiley:

Seanl
Do you have aircon? Dunno if it would work as I have aircon so wont fit on mine, but is there enough room between your rad and grille to do it?

I have air-con and the air intake pipe misses all the air-con pipes......Very straight forward fit.  I put a hairdryer on max setting for standard intake and felt the end of the pipe, then I tried a larger hose down the inner wing to the bottom grill , once again feeling the end of the hose to feel how much air was coming out.....Then I thought of the fog light mod'.....The hairdryer air was at its best as in force of air from the fog light thus me choosing that route.  As dennis10 said, I really did not want one of these big ports on the front of my car like you see on Corsa's, Saxo's etc  :grin:

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Re: Huge hole in air box?
« Reply #14 on: 17 August 2011, 17:39 »


Your foglight mod does however look pretty good.. much better than the horrible tube I've seen sticking out on some peoples motors, nicely done  :cool:

Thank you mate  :smiley:

Seanl
Do you have aircon? Dunno if it would work as I have aircon so wont fit on mine, but is there enough room between your rad and grille to do it?

I have air-con and the air intake pipe misses all the air-con pipes......Very straight forward fit.  I put a hairdryer on max setting for standard intake and felt the end of the pipe, then I tried a larger hose down the inner wing to the bottom grill , once again feeling the end of the hose to feel how much air was coming out.....Then I thought of the fog light mod'.....The hairdryer air was at its best as in force of air from the fog light thus me choosing that route.  As dennis10 said, I really did not want one of these big ports on the front of my car like you see on Corsa's, Saxo's etc  :grin:

What I meant was that the feed may not fit behind the TOP/front grille. Aircon Rad etc leaves no room to get the feed straight there.
Mine went behind the mesh here -

No big trumpets like the usual chavs etc, just cable tied behind this. Not on at the moment though, as I had the same looking trunking as you, and it chewed into my aux belt. I'm not saying what you have done is sh!t! and I'm not trying to create an argument. I think what you have done looks good actually. I just wouldnt do it and loose my fog. Unless your a chav and running HIDs, the standard output on the headlights is pretty crap at the best of times. Fogs are an essential bit of kit imho.  :wink:

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You can also get these which lots of people are running (hope you dont mind BLU)


As said, loads of people are running with them and no one has reported any problems. Doubt they would be manufactured in the first place if it was a big issue.
« Last Edit: 17 August 2011, 17:59 by Seanl »
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Re: Huge hole in air box?
« Reply #15 on: 17 August 2011, 19:10 »
You should see my airbox, it's far more butchered than that one! I also have fog light cold air intake, and never had a problem with hydrolocking.