Has anyone else noticed that the holes for the foglights would make great air inlets for the AEM CAI (at least the drive's side one)? Has anyone tried to fabricate some type of focused inlet to take adantage of this? I was thinking about getting some foglights off ebay and moding them with steel mesh to make the inlets. The Sept. '04 issue of Super Street shows Chase Maurer's xB with something similar but it just looks like steel mesh pegged in place. I want a FOCUSED inlet that shoots air directly at the intake. Someone please make one so i don't have to get off my lazy but.

 

I have a prototype fibreglass inlet and ducting sittting at my fabircator's shop, that I made myself. I pretty much put the project on hold when I got my bB foglights. If there is enuff interest, I could start the project up again.

 

Nothing is going to shoot air into the intake, but it might make it a little less stale.

 

The inlet/ducting I fab'd up was to take advantage of the short ram and the not-so-desirable hot air that is around here in the spring and summer. The one disadvantage would be a dirtier than normal air filter due to the high winds and dust.

 

a lil less stale i like that. hey brad can you pm me some pics of that fabbed up inlet ya made? i'm thinkin of makin one but i gotta look at how some others are done.

 

You should continue with the fab job. How about some kind of filter in the inlet/ducting to keep dirt out of the intake filter? It might mean less air but less is better than none. All in all it probably wouldn't make too much difference in performance having the inlet, so maybe it'snot worth it. ...But if you already have one started you should finish it because i haven't seen many people try this. Thanks for the info.

 

The dirt and dust is from all of the farm country around me. I live sort of on the outskirts where there's fields just about everywhere.

 

Darren, I'll describe it to ya when I see you.

Bascially, I'll have a pattern for a hole that will need to be cut out of tyhe OEM foglight cover. Then you double stick or epoxy the ducting and its cover over the OEM foglight cover.

The ducting will then direct the air to the filter of the short ram. I haven't seen the filter placemment on other intakes and I fab'd this one for the Injen short ram I have.

That way, you already have the mounting system built in from the OEM foglight cover and once mounted can be easily painted or what not.

 

sounds nice man. you goit any extra patterns laying around to bring to tracy? hey how far is that from sac ne ways?

 

The one and only piece I made is in San Martin at my buddy's shop. Tracy to Sac is about an hour.

 

oh ok well a descrip is better than nothin and i should see you there.

 

kind of sounds like a ram air set up which that would be even better

 

Sounds like what I've been trying to design.
:D
I think a ram-air inlet through the foglight cover would work nice.
Got any pictures?

 

Ram air works across the entire surface area of a filter (flat). You dont' want different pressure across the filter area (cone). Air should draw evenly into the inlet pipe. Keep that in mind in your design.

 

i just cut a small section out of my foglight cover so air would rush in while driving, that way the filter would have more air to take in. n the fender area acts like a big airbox

 

Sweet!

 

i like that but i'd like one with a lil ducting set into it. damn it brad i completely forgot to ask about yer intake. damn.

 

thats nice, but i don't think that kind of set up would work for an xA very well

 

Since I am already using a free-flow TRD air filter in my stock air box,
would adding ducting to force the air from the fog-light hole into the air-filter box work?
:?:

 

sure.. any way to get more air into the box would be great