Aftermarket air filter, direct connection

[jay44]

Hiya,

If there is space available, could you just fit a cone filter directly to the intake of the engine? Opposed to using a short ram, as a means of 'extension'. Is this dangerous at all?

[gazza285]

Yes, but why would you?

[jay44]

yes it's dangerous? or yes I could no problem?

Just going to buy a cheap filter for now, and if it doesn't come with enough Jubilee clips to fit to the original intake pipe, I'd still want to install it! Don't want to spend any extra money, even on a £40 induction kit for now

[Cupramax]

What makes you think some tat from Halfords or whereever will improve on the factory airbox which was probably designed with CFD?

[jay44]

• slaps head*

• sighs hard*

for the purpose of saving all of our time: I'm a young naive boy racer who likes the sound, and is well aware it will have no positive addition to performance. Doing it for the sound, which I like.

Just want to know if the OP is safe to do so

[Cupramax]

It'll be safe but all you'll achieve is sucking warm air from the engine compartment ( and hence produce less power).

[ikarl]

Yes it's fine, will make the desired noise you want.... You will hardly notice any difference.

You would hardly notice an increase of +/- 5% so it hardly makes no difference. Crack on

[jay44]

Cupramax said:

It'll be safe but all you'll achieve is sucking warm air from the engine compartment ( and hence produce less power).

ikarl said:

Yes it's fine, will make the desired noise you want.... You will hardly notice any difference.

You would hardly notice an increase of +/- 5% so it hardly makes no difference. Crack on

solid, cheers boys!

[KungFuPanda]

We've all been there. I've drilled the airbox of my old Audi TT in the past to get a better noise.

More recently, I fitted a K&N cone filter to a Porsche 996 I used to have. It didn't like it at all. All sorts of error messages came up and it ran like a bag of nails. Had to revert back to the original filter.

[HertsBiker]

jay44 said:

Hiya,

If there is space available, could you just fit a cone filter directly to the intake of the engine? Opposed to using a short ram, as a means of 'extension'. Is this dangerous at all?

Avoid direct fitting to a FI engine. The air mass sensor needs a short span of stable air flow or it gets confused. Short ram good.

[jay44]

HertsBiker said:

jay44 said:

Hiya,

If there is space available, could you just fit a cone filter directly to the intake of the engine? Opposed to using a short ram, as a means of 'extension'. Is this dangerous at all?

Avoid direct fitting to a FI engine. The air mass sensor needs a short span of stable air flow or it gets confused. Short ram good.

good to know, cheers. will just jubilee clip is to where the stock airbox sat, in that case. will make it easier to replace after i'm done with the motor for a resell

[Kev T360]

It will be fine, just use some pipe work to get cold air upto the filter.