Harry W were are you

[rnd]

Hi. Was talking to Tim from ACT trying to find out if they done an induction kit for the V8S. He says no but to speak to you as you have done your own. Can you give me any tips on what you done,and what you bought or photo's.

Rnd

[Pies]

Harry,spill the beans

[HarryW]

I'll take some photo's soon, its really only applicable to the V8S though.
In principle the hose leaves the AFM on 90deg bend, then goes straight down to behind then left hand headlight to the AF . Simple one bend system , the only down side is you have to disconnect the elbow when lifting the bonnet.
I have boxed in the wheel arch liner a bit to stop heat soak coming back into it from the engine when stationary. I have also fitted an addtional scoop to the front grill and feed the cold air into the the air box via drillings through the bonnet support 'wood'. It is as near to cold/ambient as you will ever get on a V8S, I spent a lot of time with re,mote temperature monitors to find the sweet spot .
During my recent RR session it maintained a steady intake temperature throughout and gave consistant power outputs no matter how many runs on the dyno were done, if you have experienced RR's you will know this is very difficult to achieve.
It is beleived that it only loses the car about 3hp above that if you were to stick a straight pipe on tot eh AFM and feed it into free space away from the engine heat .

Harry

Harry

[rnd]

Thanks Harry look forward to seeing the photos. Did you think it made much difference.

Ray

[HarryW]

rnd said:

Thanks Harry look forward to seeing the photos. Did you think it made much difference. Ray

I'll see if can do some photos this weekend, as to feeling the difference,i think I can and if you are starting from a standish set up then you may feel it too. One of the main advantages to me though is that with the standard set up it was sucking in air at upo to 60deg when stationary . I also obseved drops ofup to 30bhp on the rollers because of it. I kow once you are moving it does cool down but I monitored with a remote temp gizmo and it took up to 5 minutes to come down. For the price of a couple of pieces of silicon piping and a bit of effort,I think its well worth while.

Harry

[rnd]

Counting the days to the weekend. You can give us all a running comentry with the pics. What did you do between the AFM and engine (thinking of the engine movement on the mountings as I think the AFM is mounted to body)
Ray

[HarryW]

Blimey better do it then .

H

[HarryW]

HarryW said:

Blimey better do it then . H

Blimey forgot I will be having the bonnet up over the next few nights to find out why the 3D ignition stopped working on sunday . Plus side I'll take the camera in the garage for the pics .

Harry