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Posted by cutting metal to fit an intake! RevHigh on October 29, 2000 at 20:08:09:

In Reply to: Is that your new HAI??? (hot air intake) posted by Dan B on October 29, 2000 at 19:58:00:

as well as taking the front bumper off a car to put a filter behind a fog light so that water has a chance be ingested. Not to mention paying $500/$700 bucks for a name and some plastic. It sits next to the intake hole. I can see your point about the engine heat but this setup does not affect the cars perf. It is not ingesting the radiator/engine heat air..150 is nothing, turbo motors ingest 2-3 times as much. What do you think your non-intercooled-huffer puts into your motor...chilled air. Your motor is ingesting twice as much heat as mine is. Your auto-tranny will be the first thing to go before your motor. I've had it for 6 months now and not a thing has gone wrong. I just got the camera to take pictures. After several hours on the road, pop the hood, touch the filter and it is cool enough for a baby to touch. No lie!

John

Engine bays can get over 150 degrees. That will FRY your air mass meter in a few months, and degrade performance (less dense air = less efficient combustion). How come the cone can't be stuck in the stock hole?
-Dan B

I can send you one for free. If you like..hehehe

After five months of driving around the streets of San Francisco (OK, Palo Alto) with my Euro Tourist plate, I finally decided to play the semi-legal game and put the California plate on the rear (Munich plate still on the front).

I am looking for a simple but high-quality (not pepboys cheezy) license plate frame including a smoked cover to tone down the white plate against my Anthracite car. I've seen the cheap versions at the local autopart stores and some nice metal frames w/o covers in various online catalogs and on the cars of those on this board.

Suggestions? Do I go with a "normal" good frame (like the OEM BMW frame) and then add a cover? If so, where do I go just to get the cover? Pepboys has a cheap plastic cover. Is that the best I can do?


TIA,
Bill





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