Standard Air Box Modded To Frp Putting a tutorial together
#22
Posted 26 May 2008 - 05:44 PM
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#23
Posted 01 July 2008 - 08:45 PM
One real FRP airbox, you can see the front air feed in the top right of the box.
Battery and holder removed as well as rubber hose
Bottom half of airbox removed, you can see the side air feed.
FRP box on left Standard on right (top half)
Break the plastic weld (all five) and remove the sound baffler
Should just flick out with screw driver
And now the harder bit, cutting the hole in the front
This post has been edited by 3Ddunk: 01 July 2008 - 08:49 PM
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#24
Posted 01 July 2008 - 10:22 PM
cheers
#26
Posted 12 July 2008 - 07:41 AM
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#27
Posted 12 July 2008 - 08:05 AM
Don't know how it would work on a standard puma, but mine and Dunk's have been modified to put an elbow on the front, and a hole through the platic plate that sits in the passenger side of the bumper behind the lower grill, to give a direct air feed from the front.
I'll see if I can find a pic....
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#28
Posted 12 July 2008 - 08:15 AM
#30
Posted 12 July 2008 - 08:19 AM
#31
Posted 12 July 2008 - 08:19 AM
we used the 'end' off the original air feed pipe, trimmed down a bit and glued into position in the hole cut in the blanking plate, and had to use a new (longer) bit of flexible ducting to replace the original....
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#32
Posted 12 July 2008 - 08:21 AM
#33
Posted 12 July 2008 - 08:41 AM
1. Is the flexi-pipe the one on the std airbox which goes down into the wing?
2. What's the diameter of the drainpipe?
3. Is that a standard hot glue gun or is there something fancy about it (I have a loctite one just with standard glue sticks).
#34
Posted 12 July 2008 - 10:14 AM
I used hot glue, make sure you rough up the surfaces to help it stick
1. Is the flexi-pipe the one on the std airbox which goes down into the wing?
2. What's the diameter of the drainpipe?
3. Is that a standard hot glue gun or is there something fancy about it (I have a loctite one just with standard glue sticks).
1.Yes the flexi pipe is the one found in the wing, cut a bit shorter and moved to the front.
2. 68mm Diameter Ford Racing Pipe (or in the real world B&Q 2M long drain pipe think it was about £5)
3.The hot glue gun was from Lidl it cost £5 they also had a box of 32 glue sticks for £2 lot cheaper than B&Q. It alway worth a look in Lidl, Aldi and Netto for cheap tools as they are far better quality than the large chain diy superstores.
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#35
Posted 12 July 2008 - 11:03 AM
#36
Posted 12 July 2008 - 12:15 PM
There speaks a man that has not owned a FRP.
I've spoken with Dunk before about this, as my Thunder has a similar, but slightly simplier arrangement using bits from a Fiesta Zetec-S. Boreham put a lot of work into the FRP airbox and did consider cone filers, etc as other possible options. However. the design you see here was felt to be the best, so you could do alot worse than to follow the above advice.
#37
Posted 13 July 2008 - 10:00 AM
Im not sure who to laugh at most, Ford for spending tens of thousands of pounds creating mouldings for all the poxy pipework you find up inside the wing on a standard airbox. Or Tickford for saying to an engineer, heres £10, make this work properly!
#38
Posted 11 August 2008 - 10:17 PM
I've not had my airbox off yet to have a look. Do the standard Puma boxes only have the air intake at the sides? And what do you do with the small hole that is left at the side when you do this mod? Or will it all become obvious when I take the thing to bits?
#39
Posted 12 August 2008 - 07:28 AM
I've not had my airbox off yet to have a look. Do the standard Puma boxes only have the air intake at the sides? And what do you do with the small hole that is left at the side when you do this mod? Or will it all become obvious when I take the thing to bits?
To answer your questions.
All the FRP have the air intake that low in the grill, Ive just added an elbow at the end.
The FRP uses both side and front air intake, just that they removed the flexiable hose from the side to use at the front, the elbow is still there.
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#40
Posted 12 August 2008 - 06:04 PM