lex86 cone filter

lex86 · Post by **lex86** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:21 am

Hell yeah, i read this post and a few others yesterday and i got the urge to do it.

Made it from pvc pipe and a cone filter.

Parts

3inch to 2inch converter = $3

1 22degree angle = $1.99

Cone filter = $32.99

So yeah, before i bought all that i found a broken lead from the air intake to the engine that also has a junction running to the headers(?? i think) so yeh replaced that for $38.

Aaanyway.

Ripped out the old air filter and pipe that went to the resonator and used the converter to join the angle and new air filter to the existing air intake pipe (the black bit before the air cleaner [look at the pictures of my engine before i modded it, in the cars section]).

And yeah, fits snug as a big in a friggin LOUD rug.

The sound difference is amazing

Like 'damn that shit is whack' ( lol hehe ). but yeah i love the fact i can floor it and i get this real deep bassy sound, but if i just have my food on the pedal. the car sounds as normal.

IE.

foot-on-floor = getaway from something

or

foot-lightly-touching = cops are following and i'm driving carefully

Anyhow, I also bought some chrome spraypaint --> i love ghetto rigging shit

looks really cheesy but works a treat.

i'll get some piccies and a sound recording. I'll add them later.

Peace.

lex86 · Post by **lex86** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:47 am

Okay heres the pics, i need to go for a drive to get the sound recording, will do that later.

Alright heres the rig as it sits now, it has a piece of pumping restraint underneath it so it doesnt hit anything

This is the connector i used to shrink the 3inch stormwater pipe to the 2inch existing connecter

The chrome paint i'm going to paint it

Hopefully will look like the lid.

Looks schweet

The pointless resonator and old piping from the airfilter to the res.

And the pipe that broke.

Once again, everyone should do this mod, so cheap and so effective.

Oh yeah performace gains.

I can get up to 80km/h in 2nd gear. previously i could barely make it to 65-70km/h.

Other than that i havent noticed anything. Apart from this low rumble everytime i accelerate now. lol!

Peace.

Edit: Added the chromed pipes after they were done.

Joso · Post by **Joso** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:20 am

lex86 wrote:Oh yeah performace gains.

I can get up to 80km/h in 2nd gear. previously i could barely make it to 65-70km/h.

Other than that i havent noticed anything. Apart from this low rumble everytime i accelerate now. lol!

Sounds like placebo to me. If you can get up to 80km/h now, you might be able to do it with the stock intake unless you did something to the gearbox.

But yeah, I guess the sound itself may make it an interesting mod.

norbie · Post by **norbie** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:45 am

nice one lex86!

I have bought the same filter from ebay as MMamdouh, will I only need the converter and angle to fit it like you have?

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:21 am

lex86: you better extend the pipe to let it go through the hole and install the filter in the area where the resonator used to be... you are now socking hot air and that hurts performance.

nice work BTW.

MMamdouh

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:22 am

Joso wrote:
lex86 wrote:Oh yeah performace gains.

I can get up to 80km/h in 2nd gear. previously i could barely make it to 65-70km/h.

Other than that i havent noticed anything. Apart from this low rumble everytime i accelerate now. lol!

Sounds like placebo to me. If you can get up to 80km/h now, you might be able to do it with the stock intake unless you did something to the gearbox.

But yeah, I guess the sound itself may make it an interesting mod.

i can go up to 80 km/h in second gear with my car... can't see why it is hard to achive.

MMamdouh

lex86 · Post by **lex86** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 3:51 am

Also what i forgot to do before i installed it (not before chroming) was attach the air intake sensor, so i've drilled and mounted the sensor on the underside (where the dodgy chrome is.

norbie wrote:nice one lex86!

I have bought the same filter from ebay as MMamdouh, will I only need the converter and angle to fit it like you have?

Yeah I see that as the easiest way to get a cai put in.

But as MMamdouh says, where it is atm its sucking hot air so i'll buy another angle piece and put the filter down through the hole thats there.

MMamdouh wrote:lex86: you better extend the pipe to let it go through the hole and install the filter in the area where the resonator used to be... you are now socking hot air and that hurts performance.

nice work BTW.

MMamdouh

Yeah that'll be the next step in this project. as well as a second coat of chrome which can sit for more than an hour to fully harden (the first job was rushed as it was pissing down with rain where i live.

Ah well, another mod for my woo!

Woo's RULE!

norbie · Post by **norbie** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:43 am

lex86 wrote:Also what i forgot to do before i installed it (not before chroming) was attach the air intake sensor, so i've drilled and mounted the sensor on the underside (where the dodgy chrome is.

If you're just taking the airbox out and putting the filter where the airbox was you wouldn't need to worry about the air intake sensor as it would still be attached the to pipe would it not?

If you manage to extend it into your resonator area please let me know what pipes (sizes lengths and angles) you used so that I can get the right ones too

Joso · Post by **Joso** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:49 am

MMamdouh wrote:
Joso wrote:
lex86 wrote:Oh yeah performace gains.

I can get up to 80km/h in 2nd gear. previously i could barely make it to 65-70km/h.

Other than that i havent noticed anything. Apart from this low rumble everytime i accelerate now. lol!

Sounds like placebo to me. If you can get up to 80km/h now, you might be able to do it with the stock intake unless you did something to the gearbox.

But yeah, I guess the sound itself may make it an interesting mod.
i can go up to 80 km/h in second gear with my car... can't see why it is hard to achive.

MMamdouh

My car can go faster in second gear. What I mean is max speed in a low gear has nothing to do with the air filter but with the gear ratio.

kroz123 · Post by **kroz123** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:32 pm

Nice work indeed MMamdouh and lex86

lex86 · Post by **lex86** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:43 pm

norbie wrote:
lex86 wrote:Also what i forgot to do before i installed it (not before chroming) was attach the air intake sensor, so i've drilled and mounted the sensor on the underside (where the dodgy chrome is.
If you're just taking the airbox out and putting the filter where the airbox was you wouldn't need to worry about the air intake sensor as it would still be attached the to pipe would it not?

The air sensor on my car was mounted into the box, so i needed to drill a 20mm hole in the converter (previously the 45deg pipe) to put it in.

norbie wrote: If you manage to extend it into your resonator area please let me know what pipes (sizes lengths and angles) you used so that I can get the right ones too

Yeah man i extended it today. pics to follow.

The sensor mounted on the adatper.

edit: wrong link

Pipe before the chrome.

Some chrome shots.

And now where the filter sits.

What i used was
3x 45deg fittings.
about 6" of straight 90mm (3.5") storm water pipe (But about 12" or so, for any extra [Also grab some plumbers pipe weld stuff its blue and joins plastic pipes you'll need it])
A 90mm connecter (it sits inside the pipe)

And the joins are as follows.

Yeah thats it hey, works a real treat.

Anything else, feel free to ask.

Also i'll get some daylight pics when its daylight here.

Peace.

kroz123 · Post by **kroz123** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:51 pm

hey Lex you'll need to put the fender splash guard back cuz the filter will suck every thing your wheel will throw at it.

but Nice work though

lex86 · Post by **lex86** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 3:02 pm

rr__kroz123 wrote:hey Lex you'll need to put the fender splash guard back cuz the filter will suck every thing your wheel will throw at it.

but Nice work though

I didnt have a fender splash guard... lol maybe i should get one from a wreckers

Peace

norbie · Post by **norbie** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:54 pm

Thanks mate, I love the chrome look you've given it as well.

I'll print out this page and go to the loacl trade suppliers to get the parts lol.

Thanks for a good guide, but I'm sure I'll be back when I get stuck (thats is WHEN not IF lol).

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:31 pm

Joso wrote: My car can go faster in second gear. What I mean is max speed in a low gear has nothing to do with the air filter but with the gear ratio.

theoritically speaking yes but you got to push the engine to its rev limit (6500RPM) to get the higest speed you can for each gear.

on the practical side of things; pushing the engine to 6500 RPM is not easy when you got loads of ristriction in the intake and/or the exhaust so adding a cone filter makes that more attanable and that is exactly what i felt, the car now does the same speeds for each gears but it it seems effortles now as the ristriction is illiminated or at least minimized.

MMamdouh