Air induction cold air feed/heatshield question

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JAMZ
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Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:56 pm

Sup fellaz..

I got a pipercross Air induction kit but am having problems in finding a decent place to put my cold air feed tube..

where have you put yours?

ALSO. has anyone found a decent place to get hold of a heatshield for this too...seems like at the moment im sucking more hot than cold air..not good :(

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Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:01 pm

there was an excellent article on www.bmwe30.net but the site is down again :cry:
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Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:45 pm

i made up a sheild out of sheet alu rolled and bent it looks ok drilled a hole down and brought my cold air feed out the fog light hole works well could feel the car losing power when it was hot before working nicely now
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Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:00 pm

I made a heat shield for the filter on my track car from a spare alloy gearbox under tray from a 325i. I just bent it into shape and with some minor trimming it fitted no probs. The cold air feed enters via one of the headlight holes and comes up through a hole in the heatshield.

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Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:28 am

fabbed mine outa alloy heatsheild, cost about 3 quid from plumb center
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