i've recently been workin on a little something for my car...tryin to give it a little bit of a different look...customized this to shield to protect from heat and to hold the odyssey battery. hope you like it

 

not bad, that's pretty clean looking. good job!

 

Good job indeed! I was thinking of custom making my own filter box using the stock intake box.

 

is that homemade ? looks like the weapon R intake shield

 

everything was homemade....home depot...sheet metal bending machine and creativity...still a prototype i would like to improve a little more...and the area below the battery can i take it out where the old battery tray was

 

not bad man

 

yeah I wanna say 4 bolts and alota rust and you can remove the old battery tray.

 

Good concept but I think it looks bad

 

yeah, it's looks a lil. ruff. search for the Weapon R intake shield, looks almost the same but nicer & polished.

 

well i didnt expect it to be perfect on the first try...i wanted to get the baselines down just to see if everything fit where it should, what needs to modified and work from there....y buy something when it can be made to your individual standards?

appreciate the input any other suggestions would be welcome

 

not bad. when you get a final clean cut copy send it out and get it anodized and maybe engraved with something meaningful to you. I think that would look nice.

 

can sheet metal be powdercoated?

 

Anything that conducts electricity can be powdercoated as I understand it...

 

looks cool man i think when you get that battery tray out of they will look 10 times better

 

how long do those batteries generally last?
as a daily driver? I've read up on it and for the specs, it states it has a 24min reserve time. Would having something like an alarm kill it?

 

nice job doode. looks cool im sure when you have your finished product it will look better

 

pretty good idea imo. i had one done a while back on mines:

http://i21.photobucket.com/alb...2.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/alb...d.jpg

pretty much the same concept. i also have a hose coming from the bumper lense into the intake box:

http://i21.photobucket.com/alb...4.jpg

if you want me to take my pix down, let me know. i'm not trying to thread jack you.

 

well aries just comes in and destroys any competition.
and thats that

 

haha... nah it's not even like that.

but back on topic... i had access to a welder for mine. too bad the welder was acting up. i had to grind the welds off.

 

damn man...that came out really nice...would you still be able to make any more like that? if i were to give you the specs could you make it with the same little pocket to hold the battery? let me know man...you dont have to take down it's all good i appreciate the input as well

 

any pics of where the intake tube comes out of that box? did you use some sort of rubber gasket to make sure there was little to no air/transfer from the engine bay into teh box?

I saw that one @ires had a while back.. wish i coudl pick one up...

 

Excuse my noobness, but aries, how does that hold up in the rain? any water in the intake?

 

looks good.

 

I doubt it would since that port is pointing down & @ries isn't speed-racing thru mountain passes during typhoons or crossing streams. In other words, gravity is keeping water out, I'm assuming. I was going to go this route, but just added an elbo to my SRI(DC) & made it into a CAI. BTW, I love @ries' Lude!

 

wow that doesnt look that bad!!!