This subject has been beaten into the ground and I know that everyone has their different takes on what should be done for getting air to your engine. I'm bored though and now I wish I'd have done this months ago.
I've been datalogging and bugging Tom way too much (sorry ) and my intake air temps have been really high, obviously because I had a cone filter on my MAF taking in hot engine air. I really don't like the stock air snorkel setup, so I decided to make my own simple solution to bring in ambient air without using the stock snorkel.
TL : DR: ultimately I replaced the cone filter with a stock airbox and a 3" flexible tube (some autozone spectre crap, you can use any tube I'm just lazy) and cut out the bottom of the airbox to fit the tube in.
Here is what I had before:
I traced around the end of the 3" tube's rubber end on the stock airbox, then used a drill to put a bunch of holes around the circle until I could break out the plastic where the stock snorkel connected. Really you could just use a hole saw or something else but it's not hard to cut out. After I got the majority of the plastic out, I used a cheap dremel to smooth out the hole so it would fit the rubber end of the tube.
Solution for plugging silencer hole is up to you, I did it with a piece of plastic and a bolt+washers+super glue.
The flex tube basically just gets zip-tied in a couple spots and I routed it to the front left of the car, right down in line with the front lip. Intake temps stay down where they should be now!
I was lucky enough to find a clean K&N drop-in in the junkyard so that was a freebie with the stock intake box (I threw my original one away long ago lol)
Much better:
I've been datalogging and bugging Tom way too much (sorry ) and my intake air temps have been really high, obviously because I had a cone filter on my MAF taking in hot engine air. I really don't like the stock air snorkel setup, so I decided to make my own simple solution to bring in ambient air without using the stock snorkel.
TL : DR: ultimately I replaced the cone filter with a stock airbox and a 3" flexible tube (some autozone spectre crap, you can use any tube I'm just lazy) and cut out the bottom of the airbox to fit the tube in.
Here is what I had before:
I traced around the end of the 3" tube's rubber end on the stock airbox, then used a drill to put a bunch of holes around the circle until I could break out the plastic where the stock snorkel connected. Really you could just use a hole saw or something else but it's not hard to cut out. After I got the majority of the plastic out, I used a cheap dremel to smooth out the hole so it would fit the rubber end of the tube.
Solution for plugging silencer hole is up to you, I did it with a piece of plastic and a bolt+washers+super glue.
The flex tube basically just gets zip-tied in a couple spots and I routed it to the front left of the car, right down in line with the front lip. Intake temps stay down where they should be now!
I was lucky enough to find a clean K&N drop-in in the junkyard so that was a freebie with the stock intake box (I threw my original one away long ago lol)
Much better: