Few $$ later got the intake sorted out, need to find a smaller pod filter now because current one wont fit through the gap under the nosecone heres a pic

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its all looking good!!
where did you get that pipe from? i quite like the idea of having cooler air, my filter is attached just in front of the throttle body...

Andrew,
Got it from house of hoses, was $18 for a metre. I got a rubber 90 degree bend from diesel spares for $16 as well, just got dremil onto that plate at the top and it basically pulls out with a few bends, jammed the rubber bend in there now just plug up the hoses.

I was going to run just an air vent into the engine bay but then decided to run the filter outside, to give a little extra room.

You dont have to do any major cutting to do this either, just hit the bit of weld then it comes out, so it can be easily put back in the car in the future.

Got a filter and fitted. ironing out a few bugs still.
Got a few more laps in paddock done doing a bit of tuning, however paddock isn't coping too well . Got it running a bit better and took for a drive up the road however it only runs at "paddock" speed up the road as thats all its tuned for [88].
Still got a fair bit of tuning to do but im on track now.

Problems with the coolant temp sensor its a different resistance then what i need ie bosch parts, wired a resistor into the circuit which brought the resistance to where i need however as its a moving resistance i need a varying resistor etc etc so that plan fell on its arse. At the moment i just have it locked to "think" its warm. Working on this problem.

Sounds like you've got it all sussed Grant!,How far is the cossie transplant from happening?

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[br]Sounds like you've got it all sussed Grant!,How far is the cossie transplant from happening?

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HAHAHA! Good joke Phil. So far Powerball, Gold lotto tickets haven't worked .
Nah the main issue is finding a house, once that is out of the way then it will start. Worst thing is the gold lotto is just for the house.

I know the feeling[:p][;^)]

Another thing, ie Andrew read this.
With the aux air valve im using, i had it tucked under the plenum, it also has air going through it so it stays pretty cool. The problem i found was it wasn't getting hot enough under there, as once you turn the engine off it will cool very quickly, then when you try and crank the engine again ( when its hot) the air valve will have cooled and is sucking in more air again, but the problem is the coolant temp will be at 71degrees etc (warmed running temp) and it switches off the power to the air valve so the valve can't close as it has no power any more and its only going to open more as the air dragging through it is cooling it down more and more.
So it's now bolted onto the extractor side of the tappet cover on an alloy plate so it remains hot when the engine is off. I'll get a photo tomorow.

Grant are you using a bosch fast idle auxillary air valve? if so they were designed to run independant of the computer, and would work as yours appears to on engine bay temperature and would create the situation you described if hooked up to the ms. if you want to use the computer to control the aux air valve you need one which is just an on off vacuum switch.. it should be independant of temperature under the hood etc wired in so that when it recieves power from the ms (warmup), it is open.. otherwise its shut - the ms controls it based on coolant temp.


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Andrew thats the one. The MS coolant vairables control whether or not the fast idle is activated, and once it hits warmup it throws out the switch in the relay board turning off the power to the aux air valve. If you've got it wired up independant theres going to be power to it all the time, it requires ms to tell it when to turn off, then once it is turned off the actual heat not power keeps it closes.
This was taken off an alfa, and from it they are bolted to the alloy tappet cover which transmits a lot of heat and keeps it warm after engine shut off.

As i said if this cools down on its own while the engine is still hot and reading 70degrees coolant hot the ms wont even power it on and it will just drag air through it cooling it down more and stay on forever.
When i tried mine under the manifold it worked closed up from power not heat then shut off but after turning the car off for a while it was cold straight away. This bracket i've got on the extractor side works fine now, it gets pretty warm from the extractors and the alloy is the best transmitter of heat.


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