intergrated air filter : air ram question??

tintin · Post by **tintin** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:46 am

im getting a air ram pipe made up and at the mo i have a hks green mushroom filter . would it be good to get 1 of thoses intergrated filtters so i can conect all the pipes up so it would be sucking from wher my fog light is and then the air would get forsed it to the filter.

by intergrated i mean the coverd filters i think apexi make one and ive seen a carbon one be for as well

thanks
martin

unknownperson · Post by **unknownperson** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:34 pm

yes the air would get forced in, to an extent, but what wil happen is once the pipe/filter etc gets to a certin pressure, which wont be much more than normal atmosphere pressure the only way more air will go in is at the same rate the engine can suck the air in,

the best part of putting the pipe behind where your fog light hole is, is that you will be getting cooler air, which is denser, (cold gasses, molicules are compressed- hot gasses molicules are expanded)

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:04 pm

I have a HKS superflow mushroom filter & don't see myself having any problems getting an air ram to force feed it with the enclosure I'm putting it in..

What ever you decide on, make sure it has some little ventilation holes to reduce the pressure build up & to let some of the warmer air to escape etc etc..

tintin · Post by **tintin** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:05 pm

cool cheers

harry90 · Post by **harry90** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:07 pm

never heard of a mushroom filter..

maggsy · Post by **maggsy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:08 pm

Harry90 wrote:never heard of a mushroom filter..

It looks like this

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:37 pm

I've got a post somewhere on the 'enclosure' i'm putting it in .. but basically if you go to BigW you can get a Pot Plant bucket 'Mondo' brand that fits it almost perfectly & doesn't look half bad in the engine bay..

AMACHA · Post by **AMACHA** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:09 pm

haha lmaoo mr-charisma haha is that like using abox?does it make the air oging in to the engine colder?i havea a HKS mushroom with no box need to do something the bucket looks cool to.

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:44 am

lol, i can't decide whether you're making fun of my awesome 'box' or trying to ask where you can get one?

but yeah, i've cut a hole for the air ram pipe at the front of the 'box' to suck in cold air from the front grill
it's a sealed box, has awesome temperature resistance & a small hole to reduce pressure etcetc bla bla

tintin · Post by **tintin** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:27 am

maggsy wrote:
Harry90 wrote:never heard of a mushroom filter..
It looks like this

thats the 1 i forgot the name of it

tintin · Post by **tintin** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:32 am

mr-charisma wrote:I've got a post somewhere on the 'enclosure' i'm putting it in .. but basically if you go to BigW you can get a Pot Plant bucket 'Mondo' brand that fits it almost perfectly & doesn't look half bad in the engine bay..

thats cool

tintin · Post by **tintin** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:43 am

mr-charisma wrote:lol, i can't decide whether you're making fun of my awesome 'box' or trying to ask where you can get one?

but yeah, i've cut a hole for the air ram pipe at the front of the 'box' to suck in cold air from the front grill
it's a sealed box, has awesome temperature resistance & a small hole to reduce pressure etcetc bla bla

whats the site you got it from ?

harry90 · Post by **harry90** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:41 am

maggsy wrote:
Harry90 wrote:never heard of a mushroom filter..
It looks like this

now i know why its called a mushroom...i had seen these before, just never knew what they were called.

payaya · Post by **payaya** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:58 am

http://www.angeltuning.co.uk/bmc.asp

Grue · Post by **Grue** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:41 am

lol. Love the plant pot mike! Stroke of genius.

You know you've got it bad when you look at something and your first thought is "How can I use that on my car?".

Post by **Bennoz** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:56 am

payaya wrote:http://www.angeltuning.co.uk/bmc.asp

Heard good things about the CDA filters.

Hostile does 'em as well:

http://www.hostileperformance.co.uk/HPi ... BMC&id=CDA

tintin · Post by **tintin** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:10 am

Bennoz wrote:
payaya wrote:http://www.angeltuning.co.uk/bmc.asp
Heard good things about the CDA filters.

Hostile does 'em as well:

http://www.hostileperformance.co.uk/HPi ... BMC&id=CDA

not cheap are they. dose any 1 have a size spec on theses ? length width cos it will have to fit in a certan place in my engine bay and dose any 1 no if they can fit on to 3" pipeing with out reducers?