01cherryreds10

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Hey everyone, I have my intake routed like I do in my avatar picture, and was wondering if I would see any gains putting a couple more bends, cutting a hole into my driver side inner fender, and sealing the intake filter from the engine heat. With the HP tuners scanner, it's reading about 120° IAT on average.

I figured I would ask first because if I cut a huge hole into the fenderwell, and it really does nothing for me, then I wasted some parts that I could sell and now I have kind of a silly looking, non functioning intake.

Any input would be great.

01cherryreds10

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Sorry, just updated my profile picture, here is a larger image of how I have it set up right now

Jesus Freak

Adding extra bends would negate any increase in power made by changing the location IMO.

1989GTA

What material is your CAI made of? The more bends the less flow. Air does not like to turn. Can you angle the first bend down more and make a straighter shot into the air filter? I would try and box in the area by the filter past the MAF to help keep out the engine heat.

What you are doing is similar to what I will be doing with my 1965 Buick Skylark installation. I hope to have just the one bend out of the throttle body and aimed down to the fender well such as you are doing. I will try and use one with a 6" radius to help the air make the 90 degree turn into the throttle body versus one with a 4" radius.

I am using a double pass radiator with the inlet and outlet on the passenger side. My CAI will be made of 4" aluminum tubing with a ceramic thermal barrier on the inside and a black heat dispersant on the outside to keep the air cool. I will also be boxing in the airfilter area to prevent engine heat from getting to it. One more thing. I have purchased a 4"x6" turbo velocity stack for the air filter. This will aid the air entering the 4" pipe from inside the air filter.

bczee

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Seems if you can isolate the intake air to only outside you should be able to get that IAT temp down some. The benefits of a cooler air charge might out weight the lost of a few CFM of air flow due to the extra bends.

FYI.. my IAT is on average of 95-100 deg and might peak around/close to 120 deg on a hot day in traffic. .but would come down some once I start moving again.

Just my 2 cents.

BC

01cherryreds10

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Thanks for the replies everyone. The intake is made of plastic. I thought I could maybe get away with putting another 45 degree bend where the filter is now and go straight down through the inner fender and have the filter down there. Perhaps ill try making a spoiler type thing to direct air upwards and open up the inner, and kind of make a little duct to push it into the filter.

I had a bunch of plastic pipe and clamps leftover so I figured it may work.

the_merv

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The general rule I went by is 1hp loss for every 10* air temp..seems to be consistent everywhere.

My intake temps are about 140*, then again it's a Vic Jr & 4 barrel Throttle Body, not much you can do..