internal air intake

[EricB]

Hi
Saw this pick of a GQ on ebay. It looks as if the air intake goes through the firewall. Is this wise? It looks neat.

[ozy1]

they normally send em into the glove box, just dont leave stuff in there...........

[toughnut]

It'd be great unless you found yourself in deep water and you got stuck or had to flood your car so you could get traction without floating.

[paul1a]

I considered rigging up an internal intake but wouldn't it be very noisy!

[bigsteve]

I ran one on my zook, it was very noisy.

But seeing though I drove it on raod as well I just unbolted the pod filter & reattached it to the hose section back under the bonnet.

[J Top]

It is the Pod filters that are noisy,if you run the normal air cleaner , or silencer as the yanks used to call them, the induction noise is reduced.
I set a Ford Exploder up this way with a removable hose and a plug for the hole, but the customer found the noise so little he never took the hose off and fitted the plug.
J Top

[objet]

I had been thining about this to get cooler air into my hilux diesel on hot days. I runs so much better with cool air.
The cab is nice and cool, espesh with a/c on, why not feed the engine with it? I thought it would be noisy and thats why noone does it, but the snorkel intake doesn't seem that loud (not that I've listened to it at 3000rpm).

[built4thrashing]

doing this is illegal and can be dangerous!!!!


by putting your air intake inside the cab it can creat a negative air pressure in the cab and suck out oxygen that you need to breath. it was ok for big steve coz it was a permanent convertable.

also if you stuc a vacumn inside the cab then engine will stall from lack of air. you'd have to drive everywhere with a window down so the thought of cold air from a/c helping will be lost.

[mickyd555]

what would be the advantage to doing this over a snorkel?? i cant see any, adn i dont reckon it would be that much cheaper in the long run, not to mention the noise everyone is talking about.......

[J Top]

Not defacing the visible parts of the vehicle.
No snorkle available for your vehicle.
No external pipework to get torn off in trees.
J Top

[toughnut]

A friend of mine used to have a mini with an SD Webber carby and the intakes used to poke inside the cab. We used to try to throw stuff down the intakes just to p!$$ him off. After He'd done some work to the car he was driving around and the car backfire through the carby and singed his hair on his arm and leg.

[christover1]

A friend of mine used to have a mini with an SD Webber carby and the intakes used to poke inside the cab. We used to try to throw stuff down the intakes just to p!$$ him off. After He'd done some work to the car he was driving around and the car backfire through the carby and singed his hair on his arm and leg.

ditto, almost, had a mate with a moke with webers in thru the dash...I wouldnt get in, cause fumes and fear of backfires was too scarey...was very noisey, almost ripped ya pants off under acceleration..christover

[EricB]

Thanks, they are all good points.

I was just thinking it might be a cheap alternative.

Safari want $500 fitted