Pod Filters-Do they work?

[LeeRoy]

It's not April yet

[MR22ZZ]

school holidays again?

[pAuL]

looks that way

[WHITCHY]

[YLD-16L]

anyone tell me can u use an intercooler on a non turbo car for a cold air induction system

You most certainly can, you'd expect to see at least 50 extra horse watts just by adding this.

To make a really large increase and be able to spin the wheels in 5th on demand you want to "power port" your intake.

Simply remove your airfilter and slowly pour dry sand into the intake while the engine is running, if the engine sound like it's starting to struggle then have a mate give it some berries by flooring the accelerator pedal.

Just use google if you need to find out more of the benefits of "power porting".

Oh and one more tuners secret is to close all your spark plug gaps to zero, it takes the load off your ignition system and alternator freeing up at least another 5 - 10 killapowahs.

[Johnzoku]

my 2c, i found throttle response picked up when i used mine in conjuntion with a "induction piping" from the filter to the throttle body, but thats after removing the accordian 5mge style intake piping thats ment to be restrictive anyway and removing the 20year old OEM filter. but thinking your going to add Hp to your car is pretty crazy go nuts heticz.

Certainly does ignite well, and burns well too:


Thats after my supposedly inflammable Unifilters decided to light up after a decently hearty backfire......

FWIW: i read a review a few years ago where they compared pod filters using a vacuum cleaner and a carbon filter paper and saw how much they trapped. Ill see if i can find it again.

Edit: Founds it. This is the cut down review, ill see if i can find the full one:
http://www.supras.co.uk/resources/Mk...airfilters.htm
Edit2: Ahah, the full one. http://www.mkiv.com/techarticles/filters_test/2/

pretty crazy you posted this, me and my mates were talking about defects and stupid things cops say when there busting ya. a guy said that a cop was checking his car and asked why the pod filter wasnt in a box, then my mate laughed and said "the cop said these things catch on fire all the time, ive seen it one to many times", now i could see it happening but i didnt expect it would.

glad your car didnt get much more damage but it still looks nasty.

[Jt_70R]

Perna, you should really put an interkoolaz on your exhaust too, to really maximise any gains.
cooler exhaust gas temp means it will take longer for your 4in cannon to accumulate black soot on the bumper, reducing the amount of weight the VTEC has to overcome.

[Johnzoku]

oh man... you went there... it just kicked in.

YO!

hahahaha

[o_man_ra23]

Niggaz Pa-Leez... we all know that the best performance gains are made by running your intake through the air conditioner!!

[Johnzoku]

speeking of that, i had a mate that wanted to see if running one of thoes lawn blowers stright into the carby would make it forced induction... he made a frame on the bonnet of a subi leoni (sp?) cut a hole in it and mounted the blower in the frame... piped it directly into the carby, hooked up some switches up on it... got some speed up on the farm and then turned it on...

it put too much air in and boged down rather bad.

lesson here... bolting a lawn/leaf blower into your carby is a worth wild investment when your vtech kicks in yo! but you might want to intercool the leaf blower and inbetween the carby and leaf blower to make sure the air runs cool... and maybe a bag of party ice on the extractors as well to keep engine temps down

[WHITCHY]

Maybe ask this guy?

http://forums.toymods.org.au/index.p...t=0#msg_754557

-Whitchy-

[YLD-16L]

nick2b is on this new forum as Kyosho I heard.

[Jt_70R]

ahhh old toymods forums, brings back the memories

[Starfire]

On a slightly more serious note, you _could_ install an intercooler on a naturally aspirated car and no, it won't do anything to improve performance, as at best it can only reduce the air temperature to slightly below ambient (if a water spray is used) which is pretty much what it starts off at anyway.

The primary aim of an aftercooler (intercooler) is to shed some of the added heat introduced by forced induction and increase the air density in the inlet.

Cheers,
Terry

[Hydra]

pretty crazy you posted this, me and my mates were talking about defects and stupid things cops say when there busting ya. a guy said that a cop was checking his car and asked why the pod filter wasnt in a box, then my mate laughed and said "the cop said these things catch on fire all the time, ive seen it one to many times", now i could see it happening but i didnt expect it would.

glad your car didnt get much more damage but it still looks nasty.

I think thats over simplifying the situation. They could catch on fire when they are essentially "socks" over intake trumpets, when the car backfires. But if you have a pod filter around the stock filter location, it's no different from having the standard filter. Cept for the POOOWAAAHHHH!!