Has anyone done, seen or heard of keeping the stock air intake tubing, just removing the flat rectangular filter, and instead attaching a high-flow foam filter to the end of the stock pipe, down in the fender?

 

What's your hypothesis?

 

Well, the stock piping is designed to pull in fresh air from the front left fender, but no after-market systems I've seen keep that feature - so I was wondering if anyone had found a way to simply free up air flow by keeping the full stock piping, removing the stock filter altogether, and adding a low-profile filter at the fender.

It would certainly not be as free-flowing as larger diameter tubing, but it should be an improvement over stock, cheap, and making use of what's already there.

Just an idea.

The difficulty I suppose would be in fitting the right kind of filter at the end, where the stock entrance of air is.

 

i don't think it's good to place a filter at the end. What about when it gets wet and stuff? It's probably best if you just wanna take out the old filter and put a new one in its place.

 

Yeah, I realize it's just a weird idea, otherwise it would already be done.

How does the stock end of the air intake work? That doesn't suck in water...

 

well i think that's why they designed the thing to go so low, probably water does enter the box at times, but will all that pipework crawling up into the box with insane incline, the water never reaches the actual filter.

(im just guessing )

 

doesnt work. I had a smart idea to block off those extra sections of pipe in the stock intake box to allow the air to travel much smoother, i actually lost horsepower and torque by trying 2 modify the stock airbox.

 

i think moving the location of the filter isn't going to change the rate of flow through the stock intake. if anything it will probably hurt performance. the air filter probably reduces the amount of air turbulence occuring in the piping and filter box before it reaches the TB. putting the filter at the very beginning of such an awkward shaped intake/box will probably cause turbulent air flow right before the TB. aftermarket CAI/SRI's have very smooth curved piping for less turbulence.

 

I've heard of people drilling large holes into the "box" assembly in order to allow more suction, but it would injest warm air from the engine bay.

 

when i was swapping out my headlight bulbs it seemed very tight in there, if you were to rig something up you would probably have to take it apart any time you want to change out your bulbs

 

it would be easier to just rig something up to direct air up through the left fender, towards the aftermarket air filter.

 

My Fujita SRI filter is right next to the rubber piece in the fender that feeds in the air that comes in through the hole in the front bumper.