So here I was ready to start on fitting my DIY cold air feed to just below the ITG filter head, I grabbed some tools out of the garage but to be honest all you really need tool wise is a phillips screwdriver to undo to jubilee clips on the intake & a stanley blade(or similar) to cut the ducting to size.
First thing I done was pop off the fog light surround grill, which took a bit of effort as my fingers were too big to fit in the gaps to tug it off, I persisted to tug at the four corner of the grill and eventually one of the corners popped out which then made it very easy to pop out the rest of the grill- don't worry about snapping the plastic it is pretty damn tough!
This picture shows the ducting I have fed in which took a bit of effort due to the fact it's 100mm and not 76mm which would have fit a lot easier!
Next thing I done was undo the last pipe on the intake which is connected to the filter head and lifted it out to enable me to access the area where I would be feeding the ducting into
This is the view I had looking into the engine bay trying to locate where I've pushed the ducting into and where I'd be pulling it up to below where the filter head sits
You can see here that 100mm is probably a bit large for the space given but I ran with it anyway, it just took a bit of force to manouvre into place but one good thing is it wont really need much fixing to keep it in place as it's so tight!
I then trimmed the ducting at the fog light end to size and re-attached the grill.
To make it more secure I attached a bit of foam where there was a small gap and used waterproof tape on the other side just to make sure the ducting wouldn't go anywhere, it felt pretty snug so I doubt the tape or foam is really needed, I just fitted it to make sure and so far after a few runs in the car it hasn't budged!
I decided to remove the fog light on the other side as well just to make the car look even on the front, it actually looks all right I think, quite sporty!
I also decided to give the heatshield from my ITG a trim because it is simply too large for the space give and I reckon it would eventually rip anyway if left as it is, I didn't get a picture of this but it's only trimming a bit of foam with a stanley around the metal part so nothing exciting really but it does make a positive difference to the fitment!
Back to the cold air feed, I've not really had the car out long enough or driven it hard enough to notice any difference and I doubt you would notice a massive difference from the cabin anyway but it's giving me peace of mind that there is a better feed of cold air going to the filter head than there used to be through the panel gap and this can only be a good thing!
Next mods I've got on the list now are: Buy a VF Engineering intake and fit that (LOL) as I'm fairly sure I'm going for a GIAC extreme plus map and apparently this is what I need due to the fact is a full 3" onto the turbo, but annoying as I'd only just fitted the ITG for chirsts sake! But I'd rather use the hardware GIAC/Statler recommend with the software than try something else and get a disappontment.
Take out some of the aluminium finish interior part and skin them in carbon fibre, see
http://www.carbonmods.co.uk/Products/Carbon-Fibre-Skinning-Starter-Kit__CMCFSK300.aspx
Then get the thing down to sheffield and get it mapped!
After that I'll look and the addition of an intercooler, then its onto handling and braking which should be fun (expensive
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Anyway apologies if you were expecting a detailed write-up I was just wanting to show a couple of pictures and a bit of text to show what I'd done which might help someone else if they want to do the same or something similar without my mistakes haha
Cheers
Craig
