Will This Simple/free Mod Work?

[adam_young 0]

Cutting a rectangle shape out of the top of your std grill.

 

My thinking is that this will then provide a clear supply of air to the standard ducting pipe.

 

I did this on my old 205 and you cant even see its been done once the bonnet is shut.

 

The only down side is that you are likely to get more debris in your filter.

 

What do you reckon?

[Hilgie 16 2 Cars]

I did this mod to all my GTis so far.

[NickR 10]

I drilled holes instead of cutting.

 

Seems to stop quite a few flys

[Edd-XS 0]

yeah ive done this with a soldering iron! dont you have holes already in your grill? i have two grills, one had holes in, the other didnt so i made one. ed

[Gary 2]

yeah ive done this with a soldering iron!

Snap

[Gaz 0]

I drilled holes instead of cutting.

 

Seems to stop quite a few flys

Same here

 

 

Gaz

[gareth 0]

haha, sod having a NOS bottle...

 

a small bottle of french lager, much cheaper!

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

Doesn't really make any difference IMO but I did this to my car long before I fitted an induction kit, just cut the plastic away where it blocked the intake.

 

Graham.

[adrian_gti 0]

Same here 

 

 

Gaz

what kind of bhp increase are you seeing with that? must be good for an extra 20bhp

Edited January 30, 2004 by adrian_gti

[robertt 0]

Me too! (but not the bottle method) Although the effect is negligable.

 

The plastic air intake thing needs to be bigger and have more open space around it.

Edited January 31, 2004 by robertt

[speedy indy 0]

Does it really make a difference ?

[Zed 0]

It cant hurt anything

[huddsta 0]

Is that a bluebottle

[base-1 17]

yeah did that aswell, didnt see the logic in having the air ducting being rammed up against a bit of plastic?!