Question on custom intakes

dancake · Post by **dancake** » August 4th, 2003, 11:43 am

Iv decided to follow D coleman's advice and fit a custom intake to my 1.8 V61. If I want to rplace the rubber bellows between the Throttle body and the air flow meter, what do I do with the small pipe that goes i at 90 degrees to the bellows ? I was hoping to connect the throttle body straight to the airflow meter with a simple short length of pipe. My bellows is split and needs replacing anyway.2. There is a small vac pipe going into the air box. Can it be blanked off?3. With the air filter hanging down so low, does it take excessive regular cleaning? I live in UK so the car will be driven in the wet for 33 percent of the time!

babyblueMX3 · Post by **babyblueMX3** » August 4th, 2003, 12:43 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by dancake:

2. There is a small vac pipe going into the air box. Can it be blanked off?<hr></blockquote>No don't do that.. I did and after that my idle was crap..leave it pluged like it is..Their's 2 vaccum plugged with a connector on a braket..don't touch this setup..just relocate it somewhere else..And the vaccum lines pluged on the OEM tube (the big and smal one)..Just replug them on your new piping

dewthis · Post by **dewthis** » August 4th, 2003, 6:08 pm

Just get a foot long peice of tube and one 90 degree bend. You need 4 couplings 3 3in. to 3 in. ad one 2.5 to 3 to hook to your throttle body. You shouldnt have any problem with it being down to low i ha a hole cut in my bottom splash guard and my filter stuck in it. You can see it from undrneath the car. I did plug the Tube that comes off the ribs , well i put a filter on it. Mine works fne an i can tell a huge difference.

dancake · Post by **dancake** » August 4th, 2003, 6:18 pm

thats good news. In fact I looked earlier on and was considering a similar thing (putting filter through guard)I guess I can clean filter regularly if needed.Going to have a go this weekend. Do you use a generic 3" cone filter? Or do people find a particular make works best?(what about the mushrooms on ebay? any good?)

RayRay · Post by **RayRay** » August 4th, 2003, 6:47 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by dancake:
[QB]Do you use a generic 3" cone filter? Or do people find a particular make works best?QB]<hr></blockquote>I used a Ractive heat shield filter. It's about $40. The filter itself is kinda small (surface area) since its just an actual cone shape rather than a cylindrical shape. But the kewl part is that it already has a heat shield.

dancake · Post by **dancake** » August 5th, 2003, 11:07 am

Iv heard others say this. Im bidding on a 3" ractive at the moment (the only one in UK on ebay) well see if i get it.

Len-Dogg · Post by **Len-Dogg** » August 5th, 2003, 2:00 pm

Yep I have a Ractive Heat Shield Filter on my MX-3 and my MX-5. They work great, sound great, and can be color coded to match your car!

Macen · Post by **Macen** » April 26th, 2004, 3:55 pm

Originally posted by babyblueMX3:

No don't do that.. I did and after that my idle was crap..leave it pluged like it is..

Where should the pipe/hose be plugged then? When removing the air box there's no place to plug it.

[ April 26, 2004, 02:58 PM: Message edited by: Macen ]

96mx-3 · Post by **96mx-3** » August 29th, 2006, 2:57 pm

can some one sendm e the link to wherei find this post i cant find it any where...i am looking for the topic on how to build your own and this is the closest i can find...jsut because i would liek to see and know what i need to get... thanks

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