ARC CAI Pipe

FTO338 · Post by **FTO338** » Thu May 04, 2006 4:32 pm

barfy wrote:Did you get yours from perfect run ?

FTO338 wrote: I know dstock & euro brought top (intake pipe) & bottom (air box) section seprately from Grant.

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Thu May 04, 2006 4:53 pm

I'm so down with the ARC air box...gonna go found out about it...

thanks fellas.

KJ

Post by **dstocks** » Thu May 04, 2006 4:56 pm

No I didnt get it from Perfect Run, got it from MRFTO (Grant). As FTO338 says, I bought the ARC box and EURO bought the ARC intake pipe. You can buy these separately from Perfect Run. This is where Grant originally bought them from.

Before you all rush out and buy one, you should realise that as much as this is an air box, it is not a Cold Air Box - that is, it does suck air directly from inside the engine bay. If you look at the picture above, the filter is on the side of the box that is closest to the fuse box. This is why I built myself a CAI for it. The standard pipe that feeds air from just in front of the radiator comes out slightly to the side of the filter. MY CAI system pushes cold air under the ARC box which then gets sucked in through the filter.

barfy · Post by **barfy** » Thu May 04, 2006 5:27 pm

OK now im confused... So is the filter inside the box ? How does the air get into the box itself ?

What i was planing to do is get this arc box and run a pipe from the front of the car running into the box where the filter is...

Is that possible ?

d_stroy_r · Post by **d_stroy_r** » Thu May 04, 2006 5:38 pm

mine was the arc intake connected to a K&N air filter then piping coming from the front of the car to the K@N filter.

Post by **dstocks** » Thu May 04, 2006 6:06 pm

So is the filter inside the box ? How does the air get into the box itself ?

No, the side of the box closest to the fuse box IS the filter. Look at the picture below. The filter is the orange bit. the top of the box is actually facing away from the view shown:

barfy · Post by **barfy** » Thu May 04, 2006 6:08 pm

in that case its facing away from the front, so how does it get any air flow facing the fuse box away from the front of the car ?!?!?

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Thu May 04, 2006 6:31 pm

thats type of filter sucks. I think I might just make my own Al box..for $400 i can get 3!

Post by **dstocks** » Thu May 04, 2006 7:19 pm

This is why I thought I would mention it before you all went and bought one!. Its also why I did the CAI for mine. The box itself actually works quite well and provides a significant performance gain - but it sucks in hot air. The CAI I built pushes cold air under the ARC box (there is a gap underneath) and gets sucked in through the filter. Whereas before, the temperature of the air it was sucking in when warmed up was about 70 degrees, it now sits at about 35 at worst. Yes it is a bit of a pain in that it faces the wrong direction, but this issue is not insurmountable

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