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Offline bulk66

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Re: Air box drilling
« Reply #10 on: 03 January 2008, 21:21 »
Drilled mine wednesday and its been fine. Sounds ok oh i do miss the noise of my Vr  :cry: :cry: :cry: I can feel a new exauste coming soon.... :wink:
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Offline gribsymk3

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Re: Air box drilling
« Reply #11 on: 03 January 2008, 21:24 »
how much more can you hear it? as on my mk2 you didnt really hear it until you put the load pedal right on the floor at any revs then it sounded like a beast :evil:
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Offline RiCHiE360

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Re: Air box drilling
« Reply #12 on: 03 January 2008, 21:31 »
Did mine about 2 weeks ago after ALOT of hmm'in and ahh'in..
All ic an say is DO IT! Sounds much better when on full throttle and sounds nice and quite when driving normally.
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Re: Air box drilling
« Reply #13 on: 03 January 2008, 21:34 »
Richie.... Did you drill the whole bottom box out or only the wing side??
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Offline MarkS

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Re: Air box drilling
« Reply #14 on: 03 January 2008, 21:42 »
Personally I would only drill the front and the wing side.
I reckon doing the opposite side and possibly the bottom would draw warm air in from engine reducing power.
I'd definately avoid doing the inner side whatever you do mate  :smiley:

This is a useful guide-
 http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3063843

Although he seems to drill on the engine side too?  :undecided:
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Re: Air box drilling
« Reply #15 on: 03 January 2008, 21:42 »
I only drilled the bottom and the side near next to the wing so that you couldnt see any holes when re-fitted!
Took all of 10 minutes to do from start to finish
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Re: Air box drilling
« Reply #16 on: 03 January 2008, 21:44 »
From what ive read drilling only the wing side works best aswell as running a cold air feed to the back of the air box and fixing it to where the warm air feed goes.
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Offline gribsymk3

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Re: Air box drilling
« Reply #17 on: 03 January 2008, 22:02 »
Do you think it would sound as loud if i only drilled the wing side as opposed to drilling the wing side and the bottom??
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Offline boneybradley

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Re: Air box drilling
« Reply #18 on: 03 January 2008, 22:23 »
mines only drilled at the wing and sounds nice under throttle..... The vento i have has had most of the airbox drilled wing side and bottom and is defo louder...
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Re: Air box drilling
« Reply #19 on: 03 January 2008, 22:33 »
Nearly every car I've had the drill comes out and attacks the airbox.

I only do the front and wing side as other wise it just sucks in hot air from the engine.

On some airboxes there is a restrictive air intake (mk2 8v) if you take that out it makes the induction noise louder. It's a nice easy and free mod!
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