UAS Intake Unifilter Fitting

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:53 pm

Could someone with a UAS kit and the unifilter it comes with take a pick of how they mounted the filter. Just curious where you mount it and hw you use the two little plates. Maybe take a shot at explaining it if that is easier. I'm guessing I should be able to figure it out when I go to do it but for now it's doing my head in trying to figure it out.

Also, whats the third hose clamp for?

Hoping to do this tomorrow guys so any quick response would be great.

bushido · Post by **bushido** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:17 am

UAS made me a bracket to hold the filter up whihc utilized one of the airbox holes. Didnt even use the supplied plates.

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:53 pm

ah......guess I'll have to figure something out then. Cheers Bushido

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:32 pm

Figuring something out has started to piss me off now.

First off, is the throttle body end of the pipe meant to be tight? Or even sit flush with the throttle body. I think I need to cut over 10mm off the front of the car end of the throttle body opening just so that it will clear the fuse box. Not to mention the battery. I'm not even sure if it will fit with the battery in. Is anyone else having issues like this?

The brackets for the filter a pissing me off as well. For now I'm thinking of bending the little brackets that go onto the round bracket and trying to bolt these through the 3 holes that form the bottom of the box (the stock 3 holes) though I can't figure out if this is even going to be secure.

As others get their kits and fit them could I please have some pictures of how you have secured the filter as well as how the pipe is fitting in your engine bay along with your battery.

elusi0n · Post by **elusi0n** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:00 pm

yeah i had the same problem, with the throttle body side so i had to cut off somebit and it was a pretty tight fit cause my battery is big.

As for the mount for the pod, i didnt use the plate that came in the box with the pod i just left it as it is and put the box around it, mine doesnt look really secure but all the screws are there. I'll try get some pics of my kit when i get the chance, maybe tomorrow. good luck with yours

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:13 pm

cheers elusion. Thanks for that. If I can figure out how to use the supplied bracket and get a secure mounting I'll post up some pics.

xSlurpee · Post by **xSlurpee** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:18 am

lol ... you guys having trouble putting them in?

our mr president put in mine before you could scull half a beer

would it help if i got pics up of how mines fitted?

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:41 am

that would be great thanks xslurpee.

And don't worry. I'm sure our pres will come along at some stage and explain what to do making it simple and making me look like a noob

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:41 am

from memory it somes with a bracket to secure to 1 or 2 of the origional air box holes.
I made a new one but now I run a stock box so its even easiers...you will find the UAS pipe joins up nice with the stock box, wack in a high flow filter and you have a good setup with no oil in your AFM for this GR owners.

Post by **Bennoz** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:41 am

Yeah, its not always a perfect fit, but hey, welcome to aftermarket parts.

There are 3 hose clamps, because 1 comes standard with the Unifilter. Use the other 2 'Wurtz' brand ones supplied - as they are really good quality.

Yes, the maifold breather pipe is an extrmemly tight fit into the main intake pipe - its meant to be. Its an 'interference' fit so you do not have to bugger around using any adhesives. Yes, you can chop about an inch off it to make it a better fit onto the manifold breather. The TB end of the pipe is also bigger than the TB. Just use the hose clamp to tighten it up.

The brackets that come with the unifilter are useless - again, just another part that comes with the filter standard. Personally I prefer to use the longer versions of those brackets that come with sterio headunits. 1 end bolted to the filter, the other end bolted to 1 of the air box mounting holes. You can bend the bracket to fit as you see fit. You could also bolt those 2 brackets that come with it together & use that.

Yes, if you have a big ass battery, you wont be able to mount the pipe in its optimum spot. Either go & get yourself smaller battery (like slurpee did) or try & maniuplate the battery so that its mounted as close the suspension tower as possible. I aslo fiddled with different battery mount bracket configurations to try & give as much space for the pipe as possible.

rock_it · Post by **rock_it** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:52 am

or use it as an excuse to relocate the battery to the boot

Post by **Bennoz** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:56 am

Oooh yeah, forgot about that option!

rock_it · Post by **rock_it** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:02 am

Yeah, is the next thing I want to do to mine...

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:29 pm

RallyMad wrote:And don't worry. I'm sure our pres will come along at some stage and explain what to do making it simple and making me look like a noob

Bennoz wrote:Yeah, its not always a perfect fit, but hey, welcome to aftermarket parts.

There are 3 hose clamps, because 1 comes standard with the Unifilter. Use the other 2 'Wurtz' brand ones supplied - as they are really good quality.

Yes, the maifold breather pipe is an extrmemly tight fit into the main intake pipe - its meant to be. Its an 'interference' fit so you do not have to bugger around using any adhesives. Yes, you can chop about an inch off it to make it a better fit onto the manifold breather. The TB end of the pipe is also bigger than the TB. Just use the hose clamp to tighten it up.

The brackets that come with the unifilter are useless - again, just another part that comes with the filter standard. Personally I prefer to use the longer versions of those brackets that come with sterio headunits. 1 end bolted to the filter, the other end bolted to 1 of the air box mounting holes. You can bend the bracket to fit as you see fit. You could also bolt those 2 brackets that come with it together & use that.

Yes, if you have a big ass battery, you wont be able to mount the pipe in its optimum spot. Either go & get yourself smaller battery (like slurpee did) or try & maniuplate the battery so that its mounted as close the suspension tower as possible. I aslo fiddled with different battery mount bracket configurations to try & give as much space for the pipe as possible.

Fair enough Ben. Just figured it was a kit made to fit our cars so should fit but I hadn't thought of it as a aftermarket desing and therefore requireing fitting. I know I was being a sock just my expectations were wrong is all.

All seems easy now cheers mate.

Keen to move the battery to the boot as well but can't really afford it at the moment and I only have a small battery.

With the TB end of the pipe I understand that the hose clamps will hold it in, just seems too big to manage mind, you haven't put a hose clamp on it yet so thats probably a stupid observation. I guess I'll just trim off what I need to get a better position from the TB end and breather and then I can see it all fitting fine in my head now.

With the fitting with the uniflter brackets that was kinda what I had in mind, stereso bracket? I don't understand what you mean, not the little box things? Can someone please give me a pic of these. Come to think of it is it the same sort of stuff as the mounting things that you use when fitting new central locking motors? The sort of mechano looking stuff?

Post by **Bennoz** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:24 pm

RallyMad wrote:things that you use when fitting new central locking motors? The sort of mechano looking stuff?

Yep, thats the stuff. Whatever you use, it has to have some flex in it. As under torque load the motor does move around quite a bit on the mounts. It tend to 'lean back' under heavy acceleration, so the intake pipe (and its mount) needs to be able to flex with it

Also, with the mouth of the pipe being too big for the TB, thats actually a good thing in more ways than one. When you pull it in tight with the hose clamp, it causes even more of a 'throttling' effect - ie condensing the volume of air further & speeding it up more

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:25 pm

Bennoz wrote:Also, with the mouth of the pipe being too big for the TB, thats actually a good thing in more ways than one. When you pull it in tight with the hose clamp, it causes even more of a 'throttling' effect - ie condensing the volume of air further & speeding it up more

Ah, right, of course. Just ignore me

So Bennoz, if a setup your fitting looked like this:

Just as a dummy fit but you see what I'm getting at. Would you trim the TB opening to fit? I'm just a little concerned that I'll cut to much and not have enough left to get a tight fitting. Do you think I'm running a risk of that if I cut 1 or 2 cm from the front of it?

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:10 pm

man that looks totally sh*t. Should not be on such an angle although it wont be perfect.

here is what it should look like with all the parts given in the set

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:19 pm

Yeah that is what I thought and think that is why I'm having so much trouble. To me the length of the pipe and the angle of the TB end seem to be wrong. I've sent an email asking for help to UAS anyway so we'll see what they say if they get back to me tomorrow.

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:40 pm

After another 3 hours I still don't have it fitted to the car. Got it all bolted in with a little help from John (UAS) with a little flexing of the intake pipe but have a very annoying problem.

The filter is sitting more than 5cm too high. What really bugs me is that if I take the filter down 3cm it won't fit into the end of the intake anymore. I'm guessing I haven't got the pipe or box bottom low enough but I can't figure out how to acheive that. Any ideas anyone?

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:43 am

Okay ignore the sitting to high thing. It's a combination that I needed to angle the intake down further from the TB end and the fact it's just catching on the cables that run around the front of the battery tray. I'll be trimming a little off the box tomorrow to correct this. Apart from that I'm very nearly there.

My best tip for everyone is forget the brackets that come with the unifilter. To me they are just a pain in the arse. John told me to get a single bracket and today I went to my local performance shop and found this:

Made for the job. The loop bit goes under the cable tie. Works a lot easier than the unifilter bracket. Local shop confirmed they use this bracket on all pod kits, they also agreed the unifilter bracket is just overkill. It just requires a little bending to fit but does the job nicely and easily. Shop confirmed this is prefectly legal mounted like this also.