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I decided to take on a project similar to one I read about online...
I finished putting my cone filter in tonight. I am happy with the results. The throttle responce seems faster, and the car may have a bit more get up and go. The sound the air makes is quite interesting, it's louder than I thought. It produces a sucking sound when speeding up, and a louder vacuum type noise when the clutch is depressed when changing gears in hard acceleration. After doing some reseach on cone filters in general, I realized that for the filter to provide any benefit, it has to be sucking air from somewhere outside of the engine bay. I ended up attachingthe filter to a straight pipe from the AMM through the engine bay wall, and into the fender where the cone sits. I used a 2 1/2" by 5" cylindrical filter.
(K&N part # RB-0810) I cut a round hole in the engine bay for the pipe to go through to retain most of the structural stability of the area, rather than cutting a whole section out. I cut it out with a dremmel tool and griding bits. (I went through 4 of 'em!). When the hole was cut, I relocated everything I needed to including the APC, the cruise control vacuum switch and some sort of bosch plug thing that screws onto the chassis.(what is that anyways?)I decided I didn't want to cut a hole in the fender to let in more air. Instead I modified the front corner light. I cut out the rearward half of the bottom white section of the reflector, and all the framework inside the light unit in that area. After alot of filing and griding with the trusty dremmel, and after some small plastic panels and such were installed inside the light unit to cover up holes and grinding marks, etc, I got it to look good. I installed wire mesh over the intake hole to prevent bugs and things from getting in there. I think it turned out very well. I had alot of fun doing the project, and I am quite proud of what came of it. Let me know if you have any questions on how I did it, I'd love to help you if you want. You can post or email. I hope to get digital pictures of it sometime soon...
Just thought I'd share the whole experience...Thanks for reading!
-Rob Marsh
P.S. This is where I got the idea:
http://www.netma.fi/jouko/saab/performance.html
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, Sun, 6 Oct 2002 03:51:12
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