Air filter induction Diy Help?????????????? compleate new update and pics

[bmwe34]

i will open my box tonight and post nice pics for you guys so you can come up with idears?

i agree with regaurding the pic above....
but if i put the cone on and build a shield around the cone from heat and keep the original box in the house? will that work

 

[calypso]

Ive just been reading up on Ram airflow in my flight manuals. Pretty much it doesnt exist unless your not running an airfilter. Air can be coming at any speed you like soon as it hits the filter it stops.

 

[Major]

Ive just been reading up on Ram airflow in my flight manuals. Pretty much it doesnt exist unless your not running an airfilter. Air can be coming at any speed you like soon as it hits the filter it stops.

Yup! If air would ever be 'rammed' into the intake pipe, it would just dissipate out of the filter.

 

[bmwe34]

:bawling: so now what do i do to increase the air flow of my bmw me confused

 

[Major]

i will open my box tonight and post nice pics for you guys so you can come up with idears?

i agree with regaurding the pic above....
but if i put the cone on and build a shield around the cone from heat and keep the original box in the house? will that work

Look, the setup you have right now is close to ideal. I'd like to see where the snorkel for your current airbox is, if it even has one, and where it goes.

You want to put your stock airbox in a seperate section? :hammerhead: That won't change anything!

The only way your setup can improve is if you remove your airbox, put a cone filter there instead, put it in a seperate section away from the heat, and snorkel the section from the grille.

 

[andrewbuch]

BMWE34 Go check out this thread (Click Me) its for a e46 but will maybe help you with your situation and decision..

 

[bmwe34]

okay so now i think i am seeing what you mean what if a build a shield like this will this work?

 

[andrewbuch]

that should work But I would prefer to keep the headlight working..

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The space between your Kidney Grill & the headlights, are the horizontal slats clear (as in can ai flow through there?) That then might be a great place to place the "RAM"* air tube/pipe behind them so it still can suck in fresh air from the front but wont stick out and destroy the cars looks..


*By RAM i dont mean it will force or ram the air in there, its just what I call the tube

 

[bmwe34]

build the same thing but use air from the grills ie snorkle and keep the light?

 

[Major]

Like in my signature, to the right of the left high-beam. Except without the hole, just put it behind the grill.

 

[bmwe34]

horizontal slats clear donno will check tonight i hope this mod works what do you guys think with a nice cone filter?

 

[andrewbuch]

Like in my signature, to the right of the left high-beam. Except without the hole, just put it behind the grill.

Exactly what I did with my E30. Seemed to work well.

I dont really like using cone filter. I dont feel that they filter as good as the BMW paper filter does and apart from the extra noise I did not notice anything extra. The noise was awesome though except at highway apeeds it irritated me, so I always went back to STD box for travelling.

When I put the cone onto the E46 as in that other thread, I built it into a container (to isolate it from the under hood heat & hot air) with some openings on the bottom and a "RAM" pipe in the front going to the fog light place. But it made so much noise that I took it off after 1 day of having it.

BMWE34 go for a BMC or K&N cone if you are going to go that route.

 

[bmwe34]

This is a picture of my air box ......................

 

[andrewbuch]

BMWE34, If I was you i would just leave it stock.. But if you want some extra noise then just drop a K&N flat pad filter in there..

 

[bmwe34]

what i was thinking lastnif=ght my bmw already sounds like a machine IE 325is so i want to run a pipe from the for light to the inlet opening like a snorkel my space for air to flow though the grills is verry little? what do you guys think?

 

[Major]

Just put a flat panel K&N filter in there and you're sorted.

 

[bmwe34]

so you think the snorkel is a bad idear?

 

[bmwe34]

okay cool thanks for all the help guys :excited:
1 question thou arent K&N filters bad for everyday use?:thumbsup:

 

[Major]

okay cool thanks for all the help guys :excited:
1 question thou arent K&N filters bad for everyday use?:thumbsup:

K&N wouldn't be in business if they were. They're perfectly fine for everyday use.

 

[bmwe34]

sure sure ? no harm to my motor mmmmm i love this fourm :excited: