Out at hawthorne , i was feeling around the filter part of my K&N Air intake after some of the runs and i discovered that the entire area was very very warm. (and it was only 65 ish out ) I had Nick check it out also. then I noticed that there was a small gap between the K&N 'heat shields?' and where you could see the header/ exhuast manifold type stuff.
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So flash forward to today
I drove my car over to ansels and i was very very easy on her. i didn't spool up past 0 boost, nor did i go over 3800 rpms. as soon as i got to ansels i popped the hood and we felt the cone air filter, it was a bit warm. warmer then the intercooler. (air temp was about 62 ish out !)
So i pulled out a small peice of sheet metal i bought monday. And with help from rubberbuscuit i bent, folded, tore a peice into shape to complete the heat shield. we even drilled a hole in the sheet metal and reused a factory bolt location. Ansel found a small scrap of unsed weather liner that came with the K&N and sealed up one last little gap.
then i took my lovely stock subaru snorkel. And attacked it with a Razor blade.
Cut a 'precision air Duct' on the side of it. and fumbled around with the plastic bit i cut off for a little while to try and block the factory outlet of the snorkel. it wasn't really staying in there.
but Luckly ansel had a box in the trash and i cut a bit of that cardboard up and fit it in nicely to deflect the air flow right towards the K&N Cone.
I planned to use a bit of Duct tape, on that air Duct later on, but i gave the snorkel a few good shakes and the cardboard is very secure.
then we take it for a test drive. I went to the only 55 zone in tahoe and drove it hard (drove it hard on the way there too) kept it over 4K the whole time. we pulled over in a parking lot and felt the cone. COLD !!! Very cold (the air temp was now 54 ish) but wow was that filter COLD. the outside of the new heat shielding was WARM. and the intercooler was Cool.
$3 mod
gotta love it ! damn tahoe kids !
Ansel will post some pics tomorrow.