door screen mod
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door screen mod i posted this on ls1.com and want to let all of you in on it as well.
i've heard many people talking about how they had grass, leafs, and bugs in their air filter cause of fra and ftra.
this is a solution that works.
take an old door screen . cut out a hole a little larger than your airfilter tray. ( about an inch longer and a quarter inch wider) and place under your air filter tray then replace tray and your filter and the rest of your intake and thats it .
of course you will have to clean the screen off regularly but its really easy take you lid and filter and tray out and then remove screen. most of the stuff should brush off and then of course you can spray it with water to force anything else off. and of course you can always get another one for free.
so what do you think?
i've heard many people talking about how they had grass, leafs, and bugs in their air filter cause of fra and ftra.
this is a solution that works.
take an old door screen . cut out a hole a little larger than your airfilter tray. ( about an inch longer and a quarter inch wider) and place under your air filter tray then replace tray and your filter and the rest of your intake and thats it .
of course you will have to clean the screen off regularly but its really easy take you lid and filter and tray out and then remove screen. most of the stuff should brush off and then of course you can spray it with water to force anything else off. and of course you can always get another one for free.
so what do you think?
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Re: door screen mod Yes, I caught that post. I was thinking a while back about putting some screen over the inlet between the condensor and radiator (FRA inlet). Went down to the shed to look for some screen and got into a different project, LOL. It just seemed a better idea to block the debris flow at it's source, rather than block the whole filter. But the screen idea in some implementation should work well.
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Re: door screen mod </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by gwj:
<strong>Yes, I caught that post. I was thinking a while back about putting some screen over the inlet between the condensor and radiator (FRA inlet). Went down to the shed to look for some screen and got into a different project, LOL. It just seemed a better idea to block the debris flow at it's source, rather than block the whole filter. But the screen idea in some implementation should work well.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">that was my original idea but i realized that this would be easier to install and easier to get the bugs and stuff the screen catches off the screen. there is a gap between the filter and the screen so the filter really isn't blocked. if someone is really concerned about air flow restriction they can remove the screen whenever you need the extra flow (what little it does restrict) but leave it in place when your doing your daily driving and such.
<strong>Yes, I caught that post. I was thinking a while back about putting some screen over the inlet between the condensor and radiator (FRA inlet). Went down to the shed to look for some screen and got into a different project, LOL. It just seemed a better idea to block the debris flow at it's source, rather than block the whole filter. But the screen idea in some implementation should work well.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">that was my original idea but i realized that this would be easier to install and easier to get the bugs and stuff the screen catches off the screen. there is a gap between the filter and the screen so the filter really isn't blocked. if someone is really concerned about air flow restriction they can remove the screen whenever you need the extra flow (what little it does restrict) but leave it in place when your doing your daily driving and such.
