Andrei Rinea
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jan 21, 2002
- Location
- Europe, Romania, Bucharest
- TDI
- VW Tiguan 4Motion 2.0 TDI 170HP (engine CBBB)
Reading many pages on cone filters, CAIs, hydrolocking, need for cold air, MAF killing by oily foam filters etc. etc. etc. I have come up with an ideea for a "CAI" :
Using stock airbox (paper filter is good enough since it is used on VR6 engines and filters finer) I would install a 5 inch plastic hose from the lower bumper grill to the airbox snorkel but not connect the snorkel with this hose. See picture below:
Why this setup:
1.Uses paper filter: better filtering (in terms of fine filtering)
2.Is hydrolock proof. Supposing a water splash onto the hose at high speed the water might be sucked into the hose but it will not go in the paper filter since the hose and snorkel are not connected
3.IT IS CHEAP
4.The cold air is driven very near to the snorkel (may ricochet from the wing) so there should be some efficiency to it.
Now there would be some problem to it... Andi TDI (also member here, on TDICLUB) told me that such improvizations might not be good since on heavy rains and/or splashes from other cars could somehow drive water near/on the paper filter (?can it in this setup?) causing it to get wet and possibly break... ouch..
QUESTION:
What do you think of this ideea of mine? Is it inefficient? Is it good? Is it worth it? Is it exposed to dangers?
Using stock airbox (paper filter is good enough since it is used on VR6 engines and filters finer) I would install a 5 inch plastic hose from the lower bumper grill to the airbox snorkel but not connect the snorkel with this hose. See picture below:
Why this setup:
1.Uses paper filter: better filtering (in terms of fine filtering)
2.Is hydrolock proof. Supposing a water splash onto the hose at high speed the water might be sucked into the hose but it will not go in the paper filter since the hose and snorkel are not connected
3.IT IS CHEAP
4.The cold air is driven very near to the snorkel (may ricochet from the wing) so there should be some efficiency to it.
Now there would be some problem to it... Andi TDI (also member here, on TDICLUB) told me that such improvizations might not be good since on heavy rains and/or splashes from other cars could somehow drive water near/on the paper filter (?can it in this setup?) causing it to get wet and possibly break... ouch..
QUESTION:
What do you think of this ideea of mine? Is it inefficient? Is it good? Is it worth it? Is it exposed to dangers?