As titled, my air intake and filter are located under the nose cone and my question is this the best place, knowing that it very confined, I am concerned whether or not the engine is benefitting optimimly because of this or is there no need for concern, I just feel that the engine is not getting the required amount of air.

I may consider relocating or even opening up the nose cone in some means..... any advice or ideas are appreciated..


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Engines tend to produce more power when supplied with cooler air rather than air that has been through a radiator and heated up .

My set up is very simlar. Its not great, I am seing intake temps of 42 deg so I will be re routing it.

Is there space to put a piece of flattened tube over the rad and place the filter in front of the rad?

That or rotate it 180 deg and have a scoop in the side of the nosecone feeding cooler air in.

ATB Dan.

[Edited on 27/10/11 by scutter]

I was looking at running an enclosed carbon air box like a piper cross viper with a act duct in the nose cone feeding it so all air is from the outside of the car, but was worried it would be restricted due to only have a small inlet, the the r way I looked at it was run the filter right to the front and right angle along the top of the rad area in the airflow if using a normal filter

You may be finding a power loss from that cheap filter aswell.

Not kidding, some filters are really restrictive. ITG are one of the best.

I would personally be making a hole in the nose and direct feeding the filter or run the filter down using flexi and get cold air feed from there.

HTH

I agree fitted a cheap filter to my 1.4 fiesta and seemd restricted so try a friends enclosed pipercross system and sounded and run great but cost to much to buy so settled for a k&n pannel filter seen as its only a 1.4.

Ta much, I believe an upgrade in filter and move it into the nose cone maybe my best option..... Thanks again to all