Built this originally to include in a Heat Management Thread that I was doing and decided to post it in this section, as I'm happy with the way it came out. Now I am not a professional fabricator or anything like that so don't don't try to kill me. I just think that it may be usefull to some people that are thinking of doing something like this. The box draws in cold air through the existing hole in the frame rail and then out to my fog light housing.



















































Hope you guys like it!!

 

nice thinking and setup. and dangg that turbo sits close to the trans!

 

Maybe I'm missing something but where are you taking in cold air? As the matter of fact, where is the inlet to that box? Why is that box needed? Why not route the intake out of the engine bay directly…

 

good work, but is not to heavy??

 

Yeah it is tucked in there pretty nicely

 

I would hate changing the bulb in the rainy/snowy night somewhere in forests...

 

why don't you get a top mounted manifold?

 

I'm taking in cold air through the frame rail. I didn't show it in the pictures but I did mention it. The box is needed because I have hydro locked a gsr engine with a cold air intake. Because of the design of the box, even if the pipe off of the box is submerged and water gets into the box, the water will not travel from the box to the turbo, preventing hydro lock. I tested this with a shop vac and all I got was the shop vac bogging down and no water inside the vac. When you hydro lock a 45k mi gsr engine you become paranoid. With this setup I get the added benefits of the cold air intake without the worry.

 

That's the one thing I forgot to see about was the weight, but I would say that it doesn't eat much, maybe a pound or so. I was really surprised about it.

 

A lot of thought went into this during the design. All I would have to do is disconnect 2 couplers and the entire box will come out. I can even pull the box right out the top of the engine bay without moving any piping or anything. I'm very happy with it.

 

I want to put my a/c and power steering back in one day, plus a top mounted manifold would have shifted my power band even further up. Not what I wanted, I want as much useable power band as I can get with the amount of power that in trying to make.

 

I like this idea..

I would still like to know about routing the pipe thru the box and adding ice to have a cold charge pipe. Im sure it would lower IAT's dramatically.

 

That's right I forgot you suggested this on ej8squad right?! Anyway I was half asleep when I was reading your post. If you don't mind, could you explain how you would do this. I wouldn't mind trying it, sounds like it could work.

 

i would be more intrigued by this idea if the box was made more like a AWIC to ensure the box temps stay down. in theory this isn't a bad idea, however whatever warm air gets in there has nowhere to go except into the turbo, unlike an open filter system which just draws in whatever air i around. IMPO, i think drawing in whatever air it can, like an open cone filter, is better than trying to draw in trapped, no temp controlled air, cause your more likely to get warmer air that will have "okay at best" IAT's, vice something else

 

Haha I googled AWIC and stuff to do with animals popped up lol. You mind explaining what that is. And I kind of understand where your coming from but my cold air box is gathering some of the coolest air available. I could of coarse add ice or something like that, but without anything like that this is about as good as it gets as far as the availability of really cool air around the engine compartment.

 

AWIC=Air to Water Intercooler...rather than the traditional Air to Air Intercooler, which is what you typically find as a Front Mount Intercooler on majority turbo and supercharger applications, the Air to Water is an intercooler incased within it's end caps, and the core in the center is plumped full of cold water typically fed from a tank somewhere in the car with a high volume water pump. you pour water into the tank, along with ice cubes to keep the water cold. it works like an Air to Air where the charge air is cooled by the intercooler itself, but an Air to Water cools it further by pumping ice cold water into the intercooler to give the coolest air possible going into the combustion chambers

the air going into the turbo is irrelevant. you don't want it to be piping hot of course, but when it is only going to heat up more after going through the turbo, so you need a solution to cool the charge air back down again, which is why Front Mount Intercoolers and Air to Water Intercoolers are needed

 

Ok cool just never seen that abreviation, thanks for the clarification.

 

did you be sure to clean up the slag/penetration on the other side? looks good

 

Yeah I did as much as I could, was kind of hard though.

 

I like the box man! How long did it take to make?

 

It probably took me about 4-6 hours total

 

Really trick solution! The one thing I would have done differently is I would have built it out of aluminum, just to save a little weight.

 

Being that thin of sheet metal, it can't be much weight at all. If your really worried about weight, i wouldnt run a turbo because that is were most of the added weight will be. I think it is much more cost effective using sheet metal rather than aluminum.

I like this idea a lot. I am going to try to my own after I boost my gsr. I just recently added a 4" speaker port as a velocity stack behind my fog light opening with piping running up to the opening into the frame rail providing fresh air for my ITR intake box. It is a little ghetto but it works!

 

You are exactly correct. The cost savings usually out weighs the weight savings, atleast in this case. I need to pull the box back out and actually weigh it but from what I can remember it doesn't weigh hardly anything! Plus the sheet metal was free! I don't even want to know how much my turbo added to the weight of my car. It has to be a decent amount as it broke 3 of my exhaust studs a while back!!