Alright I had a theory.
Okay, Apparently since modifying your parts a certain way is illegal in California. (meaning I'm illegal because 1... I just have a rubber hose with a filter on it, and 2, Im venting fumes into the atmosphere via the crank breather)
is it at all possible, to somehow take apart the stock plastic intake tubing.. Fabricate some sort of method, cut them open. I don't know, something that is wide enough to allow a steel pipe to extend from the Throttle Body all the way to the location of the Stock airbox.
Meaning, you would retain the look of the stock airbox, but it would actually be a fabbed short ram intake. The steel tubing would just travel along inside of the plastic and rubber stock airbox.
What do you all think? Is this one of my bastard projects with no future or is it actually feasable?
I'm not looking to get flamed here guys. I just figured how possible this would be?
Sounds feasible. Or, you could just swap out your intake for the stock box whenever you do an emissions test.
having the pipe inside wont really help. its the airbox that is the most trestrictive. it doesnt let air into it easily. the pipe after filter to tb would show only a small percent of hp increase if the stock airbox is retained.
Don't steal, the government doesn't like competition
sounds good. I guess it's back to the drawing board.
Or just get carb approved parts.
that would mean completely undoing my intake manifold. Period. and placing my stocker back on...
How about I just get supercharged
I forget what the inside of the stock box looks like (its been a while since Mandy and/or PJ did their intakes) but what the VW guys do is take a dremel and completely smooth the inside of the airbox (ours has a crosshatch of fins inside)... they also remove the "snowbox" which you guys refer to as the intake "bong", and widen the hole at the bottom of the airbox. Some even go as far as to run a piece of brake duct (from stockcar parts suppliers) to the front grille for cold/ram air supply. On the eco i know the "bong" is part of the washer bottle but its definitely in a location that I doubt any inspector would car to be looking at, so chopping it up with a dremel would probably be perfectly fine. This combo has been measured to flow up to 12 grams per second more air through the entire rpm range (using a VW scan tool to log MAF readings). What turns out to be a surprise is that stock paper filters really aren't a restriction at all, the restriction to flow is more in the fins in the airbox , the inadequate inlet hole, and the irregularities in the bong section. So the inspector would open up the hood, and see a stock airbox. They don't open it to check the filter element do they? lol damn CARB bastards!
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'Nuff said
Damn carb bastards. I'm glad I'm only gonna be here for 3 years. it sucks. Hard. but I still try guys...
if things to my way I'll be GM charged in a few months.
Go for it. Except, use a 2.5" pipe and run it out of the airbox and through the hole (shouldn't be able to see it since the box is against the wall right?) and then put a cone filter on the end in the fender
This is also a good way to hide charge piping from a turbo setup where the turbo is hidden (say down behind the block on a DOHC J, or a RMT setup)
fortune cookie say:
better a delay than a disaster.
yeah. My idea was to run a 2.5 inch pipe through the stock airbox.
putting the cone in the fender is a great idea though. I'd have to look into that.
yea... just move to Kansas City and hang out with us cool people
I was a retard, and now I'm permanently banned.
I'm tempted. a lot of the J-body scene is out east of me.
