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Topic: Removing baffles in front air box
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Amherst
Gearhead Posts: 255
From: Amherst, WI, USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-14-2001 05:04 PM
   
O.K. people, I have had the car for a week and I already want to mess with it. Can anyone give me some quick info on removing the baffles in the air cleaner box? Do I just take off the right front wheel, remove the plastic fender well guard/cover, and then take out the box? While I am asking, is it preferable to keep the box minus baffles in place with a good filter as opposed to getting something like a filter charger and nixing the box all together? I figure that will be the first mod for now, and then on to the other stuff. Tanks!!
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IIGood
Moderator Posts: 2542
From: Arnold, MD, USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-14-2001 09:17 PM
Are you talking about a cold-air induction set up? Kinda sounds something like that...in a CAI, the air filter is actually located in the wheel well to draw cold air into the inlet tube, to the intake. Thus, more power. Using a CAI would probably be better than any variation of the stock set up. That's basically it in a nutshell...but if you're talking about something else....... ------------------
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Amherst
Gearhead Posts: 255
From: Amherst, WI, USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-14-2001 09:32 PM
I've just heard of that as a suggestion before going to a cold air induction like K&N makes. Just looking for something to do! On my car, if you follow the throttle body down to the air cleaner, the filter is the can type. If you keep following it down it goes into the fender. Is that where I need to remove the baffles? This summer I will covert to whatever is best, but for now I just want to tinker. Anyone know what to do, or what to remove?
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71ragtop
Gearhead Posts: 2459
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: May 99
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posted 06-14-2001 10:46 PM
In the Sn95 world, there are two places to 'remove baffles'. The first and easiest is to remove the Air Silencer. The Air Silencer is the rubber tube that sticks out of the air box and goes into the wheel well. The second is to remove the MAF screen. The MAF screen is harder to get to and has mixed reviews. One school says that removing it helps unleash the airflow. The other school says that it straightens the air flow and removing it will cause things like 'hunting or rough idle'. I haven't removed mine yet, but I have been seriously considering it. On the Cold Air Induction, I would take a look at the newest system I've seen... the Densecharger. It is pretty much like all the other CAI's, except that they give you extra pieces of pipe and such to customize how long and which direction the filter goes into the wheel well. It comes with a K&N by the way. www.densecharger.com Mike
P.S. I've dropped a K&N into my airbox in every performance vehicle I've had. I like em alot.
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71ragtop
Gearhead Posts: 2459
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: May 99
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posted 06-17-2001 12:08 AM
Here's an update on the MAF screen removal. In my 94, I could simply remove the MAF screen and bolt everything back together and the fit was fine. Not so in my 2001 Bullitt and I believe in all the 4.6L engines. The MAF screen is actually used as a seal/gasket between the airbox and the MAF sensor. If you remove it and bolt it all back together, there is a gap. So if you have an extra MAF screen laying around, you can cut the screen out of the rubber and use that, or cut the screen out of your original one and use it. I always keep the original parts that I swap out, so I used an old one that I cut the screen out of.Initial impressions are that it doesn't really make a seat of the pants change, but I didn't really run hard with it either. I guess time will tell Mike
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