Allllrighty so I decided to finally plumb the stock intake-y routy thing to work with this shield. I may have had a few brewskies when I made this hence the materials used lol.

So I was looking around my garage too see what I could make a little duct out of. It only needed to be 4 inches wide so it touched the shield and long enough to wrap around snorkely thing. I ended up finding the plastic lining of a paint roller tray, cut a 16X4" strip out of it with a stanley knife and wrapped it around the snorkel. I used a heat gun to help mold it to the correct shape and then wrapped it in...wait for it.....Gold heat wrap! Lol yes my engine bay is quite bright now.


Then I traced on the heat shield where the scoop touched and cut that area out with a scroll saw.







I'm not sure if that plastic is strong enough to handle high temps (hence the need for the heat wrap) so we will see. I'm hoping the heat wrap will deflect enough heat + the amount of air flowing through it should help. I got the engine up to 220-230*F last night and it held just fine so time will tell lol.

 

Looks good^^^.....how did you mount the shield to stay in place?

 

Looks good. I'm always in for DIY. Keep us updatedl.

 

Thats what I was wondering? Does it just sit there on its own without any mounting brackets?

 

I think this is a good idea, but why dont any shops use this on any of their cars they build/drive (or at least i havent seen any besides on the last page).

 

To tell you the truth o don't see why they wouldn't but i made my own because i haven't seen a huge market for heat shields besides apexi and hks. I've noticed a huge difference with mine on.

 

Lol magic! Actually it fits so snug over the maf, between the battery to radiator support that it doesn't need a bracket. It seriously has no movement to it (measure twice cut once!). Its never been an issue to keep it in place.


I'm glad to hear you like yours!

 

You know I don't know. Unless they know something that I don't lol. Maybe its to do with the fact that most shops build drag racers (think less heat soak time) rather than road racers who run their cars for minutes to hours at a time.

This is something that I have done to all my performance-y type cars. The one on my old DSM had a 1/4" thick piece of rubber with silver reflectant on both sides. I swear that helped especially with a 50 trim lol.

 

Not sure if anyone is interested but here's a post I made a while back comparing temps with and without shielding.

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...d-filters.html

 

great idea.

 

looks great, may be trying this out very shortly

 

Just think of the amount of air flowing at average speeds being thrown right at the filter.

Good job. I love seeing diy mods that are smart and work.

 

You know I've thought about doing this. But after a 20min session at Road Atlanta the frame rail under the air filter was cool to the touch and so was the intake/filter. It can't hurt though

 

does anyone know where to get a intake cover...i have a cold air intake and its in the open close to my driver side front tire. Im scared it might suck up water. or would it be better to get a short ram?

 

very well done, ive been trying to figure out a way to do this. thank you!