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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:16 pm 
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im thinking of putting a 3.5' pipe from the bumper-bar leading into the air box of my brothers ef fairmont, just to gain more air flow.
has any one done this before and is it worth doing (power wise)?
ive all ready put a k & n pannel filter au tickford snorkel and going to install a mandrel bent intake pipe.

 

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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:06 pm 
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It ain't gunna do any harm.
As for a noticable gain, I doubt it.
And ebfore anyone says you'll get water in the engine, there dreaming, the engine doesn't suck hard enough through tubing that size to suck water all the way up.
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:48 pm 
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yeah its been done before, someone posted up pics of it on here a while ago.

 

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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:05 pm 
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yeah did it a while ago..
as far as ppl saying it aint gonna make much difference well i say any bit can help especially if ya got othe mods..
suction at the bar on mine is good as i was carefull to seal it all properly. if u hold a bit of paper at the hole it sucks n stays on the bumper and when the cars idiling u can hear the sucking coming from there..

herees a couple of pics of wot i did
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i didnt use the second largest bit of pipe bend..

havnt any pics from under the car where the piping runs up-sorry

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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:54 pm 
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ive done it, sfa unless your doing over 80+

removed it cos it looked dodgy.

 

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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:55 pm 
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low ghia that looks real good, just wanted to no is the long bumpy pipe flexable or solid?
cause i tried getting the shape of which the piping is gonna be and its all over the place with alot of bends.

 

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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:09 pm 
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low ghia that looks real good, just wanted to no is the long bumpy pipe flexable or solid?
cause i tried getting the shape of which the piping is gonna be and its all over the place with alot of bends



its semi flex- it holds the shape that u bend it into..its clamped and held in place all the way from the bumper hole , under the car and up into the airbox.

and for anyone wondering NO PROBLEMS with water at all. surprising since the suction at the bumper is bloody good.. all painted black so it dosent stand out when u pop the bonnet.
if u look just under the radiator hose you can see where it goes into the airbox

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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:13 pm 
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that looks good. thanks heaps.
by the way a lil off topic but nice extractors

 

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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:50 am 
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:02 am 
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Or less hassles on this post below.

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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:56 am 
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I done mine 4 or 5 years ago in my EF, i went straight down through the bottom of the airbox, i bought a 75 mm stainless fitting and used a hole saw through the box and skirt.
Mine was non ABS so it was easy, but the difference was definately noticable, more so than any snorkel that i fitted, inc Tickford and Aunger.
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