air induction fitment

[golf-sib]

Dont need to take bumper off, easiest way is take passenger wheel off and take the arch liner off, then its straight forward.

Otherwise climb under bumper (quite fiddly)

Or hardest way is take bumper off due to the time it takes.

[jamie16v]

as dave iow said, try to keep it cold as possibly as they are prone to fry once removed from their cold spot in the airbox. what i would do is mount it to an old computer cpu heatsink with some thermal transfer paste.

[Dave_IOW]

Lol thats what i done when had pipe on but didnt wanna sound like techy geek 

[spaced4130]

Make sure you keep the heatsink that sits in the airbox attached to the ignition amplifier, don’t just zip tie the ignition amplifier to the CAI without the heatsink attached or you may run into problems.

You should be able to easily fit the induction kit by just removing the arch liner, I did mine without removing anything else.

[golf-sib]

Mines just rapped round the MAF housing and I have no problems all you guys keep suggesting? (what problems are you meant to see/get? as VAG com not spitting anything out since august?)

[Dave_IOW]

Think if it gets hot it can miss abit and get spluttery

You can fit without removing arch liner too 

[golf-sib]

Indeeed you can, I did, was a pain in ass. Did/helped my mates with arch liner off, was a lot easier.

I also cut the slots open in the passengers vent open to allow more cold air flow. As for some reason the vents are moulded shut  Not a hard job with a file and some cutters. Plus I got my holes pierced in my arch liner on drivers side which allows the heat to escape from the SMIC (rather than putting a vent in, quite effective as you can feel the heat coming through even when you come to a stop), then that insulation material on the bonnet is also off (so heat escape quicker, in winter the snow just melts when warming up, where before it would take ages to dissappear of the bonnet, which suggests it aids in cooling the bay down). Ontop of all that I heat wrapped the pipe at the back coming out the turbo and up with heat wrap.

Good fun cars these golfs, going to slowly start putting mine stock, as with a child its a tad to rough lowered and contemplating a s3... Also how much these induction kits going second hand as I will be taking mine off in the week to put the airbox back on?