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so far i have not seen a true cold air for an M2 (one that actually takes air from somewhere not next to the farkin exhaust manifold). anyone know of one that i have not seen?
i think i'll just break down and make one with some piping i have, just wondered if there was something already made so i don't have to. i did notice that there is enough wiring on the AFM to relocate it just about anywhere in the engine compartment....
The stock airbox pulls air from the right front wheelwell, iirc.
You might look for the Randall Cowl Intake - although this does require cutting thie firewall, it pulls ambient, high-pressure air from the base of the windshield. Hard to measure gains on a dyno (since it requires significant airflow over the car to be truly effective), but the theory is sound.
Combine it with a Track Dog Racing header blanket, and you'd probably have some noticeable gains, depending on how well calibrated your butt dyno is.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of true cold air intakes on street-driven cars, but that's because I've known more than one person who has hydrolocked an engine due to one (and poor decision making skills :wink: ).
i'm not really looking to put the intake any lower than just below the head lights, which means i might be putting it about 12 inches above the driving surface-just under the headlight. i would have to drive thru low water crossings to get hydro-lock. my car sits low enough that at that point i'd have more issues with being swept away than anything :lol:
we've found (on spec cars anyway) that there is a ton of air restriction with the stock air tubing (the accordion style flex parts in particular). but since we're not allowed to change that, we just get to play with air flow before the AFM. we are taking a few of the cars (1.6's) to the dyno this week to test the SPinduction (made here in Ft. Worth). most of the other Spec Miata shops found at least 4 more HP with this setup.
:D
What the heck is a Spinduction? Is that like a Tornado?
I'd love to see some before and after dyno plots form one of those things.
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Originally Posted by Thorage327
Hmmm...
My '03 has a snorkel off one side of the airbox that points over to the driver's side wheel well where there are vents to pull air up into the engine compartment from under the well.
I'd classify that as not pulling from next to the exhaust ;)
RJ
SP Induction systems.
www.spinductionsystems.com
http://www.spinductionsystems.com/INSTALL05.JPG
http://www.spinductionsystems.com/INSTALL08.JPG
i dont know the pricing on these, we were told somehting else than on the website...
it is aluminum and is ceramic coated so it resists heat and is nice and pretty.
Purty... Any chance of an '02+ version designed to suck air from the wheel well like the stock box?
that question towards us?
That I don't know... but if works on a 1.6 it will work on my Rx7! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tailchaser
we have access to them :D
If ya need an NB model to play with for designing a new intake to fit over by the wheel well where the cold air comes in on the new models, let me know...
I'd be happy to be a guinea pig for a redesign.
I have a 2003.
Raymond
can you get a pic of the engine bay? ide like to see the diff between the m2 and m2.5's
i wonder if that fstb will fit an m1? i dont see why it wouldnt....
FWIW, I had my intake over under the pass headlight, just used some piping and cut a hole under the headlight for the pipe. I killed my MAS with water vapor though. Now I have an ebay special $30 now. I am thinking about going back to stock though...
OK... is it OVER the headlight or UNDER the headlight?Quote:
Originally Posted by Majik
(I take a left, right?)
:lol:
"You want that in, correct?"
it was over on the side, underneath the headlight...
i was really looking to eliminate that accordion style piping that goes infront of the motor. any aftermarket piping i've found has just stuck an open filter there by the exhaust. while i was at it, i thought it'd be fun to design one that shortened the overall intake path...
i do like the thought of one that grabs air from the cowling below the windshield. any thoughts on wether or not this might be a bit too open to water vapor as well? we've run those water traps on the old "ice-man" intakes before with no problems, but that's more for large amounts of water, not so much vapor.
:D I saw one on Ebay that looks like it goes across the front similar to the stock and is polished aluminum with a reusable cone type filter. It looks pretty trick and costs about $26.00 in "buy it now" I'm looking pretty hard at it myself, any thoughts????...Dogg
I have that one, it is the two peice version, looks good, sounds good, doesnt add power. I am either going to go back to stock or get a heat shield from goodwinracing.comQuote:
Originally Posted by twodoggs
that picture is scaring me
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Originally Posted by fwMiata
Talk to your local friendly moderator. One of them felt that picture was more appropriate than our beautiful Anna.
someone has too much free time on their hands...