Induction pipe

[CM690]

I've see a lot of chavs mainly that have a cold air induction pipe sticking out there front bumpers in different places and wondered if this actually makes any difference in performance at all? Especially seeing as most of them are using standard air boxes.

If they are actually worth it I'll pick up a black one or something (less visible/chavvy)  and have it direct some cold air into my standard 1400 air pipe.

Are they worth it?

[Khare]

Cold air will always be a benefit for petrol cars. I run my cold air feed from my fog light straight into the airbox. Then again it's not a standard airbox.







If you see on the top right corner of the airbox, above the ram intake, you can see a hole where the cold air feed goes into.

Certainly didn't hinder performance on the rolling road and was up 5hp from standard (among some other stuff).

[javalin]

as the airbox feeds from the o/s/f wing (on my 8v anyway) isn't that the same thing more or less?

[CM690]

Well I had nothing to do this afternoon so I got some pipe and put one on my mk3 :p I'll let you know if I notice a difference

[Khare]

as the airbox feeds from the o/s/f wing (on my 8v anyway) isn't that the same thing more or less?

From the front air is forced into the pipe and into the airbox. From the wing there's no direct air so the airbox sucks in air from there. It's better to get rid of that and put a cold air intake from the front.

[Khare]

Well I had nothing to do this afternoon so I got some pipe and put one on my mk3 :p I'll let you know if I notice a difference

If you do it's placebo. You won't notice a difference (it's literally one or two horsepower) but the dyno will.

[Godzilla]

My homemade induction feed made nice gains on the rollers.

All I did was remove the front fog and put a bit of tubing in there that led to the intake of the airbox. Then I put a bit of mesh across the tubing as it was not the prettiest of sights.

This is how it looks......

[VW BUSH]

Could fail an MOT if you only have one working fog light on the front

[gti gaz]

i have one in the bumper wish i had hid it a bit better now but does make a diffrence cold air feed and panal filter all the way

[Dan_GTi8v]

Could fail an MOT if you only have one working fog light on the front

Is that right? I wasn't sure about this as mine only has 1 fog working on the front but it passed ok. While researching I read it only needed the fog working on the back and the fog indicator in the cabin?

back on topic, I have my cold air feed cable tied to the passenger side bottom grill No idea if it makes a difference as I've never run the engine without it, but it roars like a beast