4.5 carbon airboxes, anyone fitted them?

[RFC1]

As title, has anyone bought a set of act carbon airboxes and back plates for their 4,5 cerb.? If so do they fit well etc ??

Cheers Sandy

[pmessling]

Yes I have them and they are like for like and a good fit.

[TVR8BLACK]

Aren't they about £700

[RFC1]

TVR8BLACK said:

Aren't they about £700

Bit more with the backplates.

[TVR8BLACK]

For £700 I like the black plastic

[anonymous-user]

pmessling said:

Yes I have them and they are like for like and a good fit.

Same here....look superb and light as a feather, but mine are bloody tight fit and a bugger to attach/detach though. Might look to modify the support brackets on mine.

[OutlawFlat4]

The 4.5 with short induction looks so much better than the 4.2 bay...

[Mr Cerbera]

djstevec said:

Same here....

Hi Steve
Do those hose clips (that attach the hoses to the airboxes) have 'jubilee' clips that came with the kit or did you supply them yourself (in which case can you remember the size ?)

Ta !

PJ

[RFC1]

djstevec said:

Same here....look superb and light as a feather, but mine are bloody tight fit and a bugger to attach/detach though. Might look to modify the support brackets on mine.

Are they bulkier than the standard ones ?

[BonkersConkers]

Hi,

I bought the ACT CF backplates as the originals were in bad (crushed) condition. The backplates fit very well to the original airboxes - no problems at all and very strong.

Jonathan

[purpleliability]

Does anyone know if these can be modified to fit the 4.2 inlets?

I'm wondering if the larger volume of the 4.5 air box has any benefit over the smaller 4.2 ones... Also Carbon fibre, mmmm

[anonymous-user]

Mr Cerbera said:

djstevec said:

Same here....

Hi Steve
Do those hose clips (that attach the hoses to the airboxes) have 'jubilee' clips that came with the kit or did you supply them yourself (in which case can you remember the size ?)

Ta !

PJ

All in the kit sir!

[anonymous-user]

RFC1 said:

djstevec said:

Same here....look superb and light as a feather, but mine are bloody tight fit and a bugger to attach/detach though. Might look to modify the support brackets on mine.

Are they bulkier than the standard ones ?

No same size as near as dammit, but its a TVR, so there's always variations....could be the mounting screw holes are slightly different to my old boxes or that I need to trim down the induction hoses as they could be causing the slight mis-alignment.

[Gray_101]

purpleliability said:

Does anyone know if these can be modified to fit the 4.2 inlets?

I'm wondering if the larger volume of the 4.5 air box has any benefit over the smaller 4.2 ones... Also Carbon fibre, mmmm

It can be done, but I think you would have to cut and graft the mounting section of the 4.2 air box onto the 4.5 ones

[NilsP]

BonkersConkers said:

Hi,

I bought the ACT CF backplates as the originals were in bad (crushed) condition. The backplates fit very well to the original airboxes - no problems at all and very strong.

Jonathan

I bought them as well but they don't fit very wel with my short induction.
It would be better if they were a bit tilted.

[Byker28i]

OutlawFlat4 said:

The 4.5 with short induction looks so much better than the 4.2 bay...

Wash your mouth out with soap. No discoloured hoses on the 4.2, just proper mechanical engineering

[dswiscrazy]

Not carbon fibre. And don't do a dam thing for performance but they do ps off the purist

[Gazzab]

Not sure it's a purity issue :-)

[pmessling]

If people need 4.5 air box brackets then do not hesitate to ask.

[OutlawFlat4]

Byker28i said:

Wash your mouth out with soap. No discoloured hoses on the 4.2, just proper mechanical engineering

Ha! I did say short induction (I thought the crappy standard ones discoulored?)