Air Intake Modification Fun and Cheap!

[outsidethebox]

I continue to increase my MPG this is so much fun! This modification was simple and pretty much free. My wife suggested using stainless bowls in the cupboard we were not using. Great Idea. I came straight up from the air intake, the shortest distance with the most flow.



One of the neatest tools is affordable hand held angle grinder. Get a good one around $30 on sale. The lighter cheaper ones don't hold up. What a tool, we used to have to use hacksaws, and files, often poor farmers didn't have welding and cutting torches. But with the angle grinder you can cut and shape metal, plastic, wood, just about everything. I have cut metal fence posts, wire fence, rebar, sheet metal, shaped handles for tools, and cut plastics (it melts as it cuts so it doesn't crack). Always wear eye protection, regular eye glasses are not enough. This is how I cut the hole in the hood and made the recycled stainless bowl into a scoop.



With plumbers goop around the edge and 3 self tapping screws tightened it up. Then roughed it up with the grinder, put a little bondo on it and painted it. I do this pretty fast it not for looks it's for performance and because I experiment It's not complete till I reach the highest amount of MPG possible. Then I will analyze the systems and try to get more MPG out of it. At that point I may pretty it up.

[McTimson]

So you're pulling in air right from the outside? Wouldn't it be better, MPG-wise, to pull warm air from under the hood?

[shovel]

Er... is that open toward the windshield? Wouldn't that become a low pressure area as air is drawn past the filter from under the hood?

[Christ]

Troll.

This thread, if it goes any further, will end up on Jalopnik.

[Frank Lee]

And some of you thought I was being too mean....

[outsidethebox]

It's an experiment. It's pretty neat I am getting heat of the hood and engine at the same time I am drawing outside air going around the scoop into the back side of the scoop. It is cooler than when it was right on top of the manifold Hot Air injected. But it is warmer than when it was Cold Air injected. I have done both of those experiments. The areodynamics are interesting as I drove it in the rain and watched the water pattern. It was even all over the cowling and the rain was even on the windshield. I will run it awhile and see how it goes.

[outsidethebox]

Also since I used matching ss bowls I can run it with a solid bowl to further test hot air injection.

[shovel]

hahah if it works and you're enjoying it... rock on! :P

[hyperyaris]

Actually,l if it creates a vacuum, it will be hotter air, and the engine will suck in any air that is there. If the engines is running, that means air has to be getting in.

[Frank Lee]