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This is what i came up with today, not 100% yet but getting there 
Still gotta wrap it in some cf film and get rid of all te gaps so it's all nice and tight
I used aluminium (1mm) by the way
Last edited by Boban; 18-09-2006 at 06:45 PM.
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Sweet man. My plans are lookin pretty similiar except i'm gonna try and tuck it under the quarter panel a bit and hopefully make it all out of one piece (which i think you did yeh??)
Was it hard to work with?? cutting and bending etc??
J
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 Originally Posted by Boban
This is what i came up with today, not 100% yet but getting there
Still gotta wrap it in some cf film and get rid of all te gaps so it's all nice and tight
I used aluminium (1mm) by the way
shit! ^ thats ****ing ****! nice one mate  what are your driving impressions with that installed?
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Originally Posted by JasonGilholme
Sweet man. My plans are lookin pretty similiar except i'm gonna try and tuck it under the quarter panel a bit and hopefully make it all out of one piece (which i think you did yeh??)
Was it hard to work with?? cutting and bending etc??
J
Mine ended up being a 2 piece because of the size of the intake (nice and fat) it was easier to do it that way. One piece on top and another on the zide with a hole in it for the pipe.
Aluminium is pretty easy to work with mate, i used an angle grinder (extreme !!!) and a little hack saw to tidy it up afterwards and put some vacuume hose which i cut a slit into around the hole so it doesn't scratch the intake, gotta keep it shiny. I still wanna push it further into the guard, got a small gap there and a few more bits and pieces before i'm 100% happy with it, but so far so go.
Trav, driving with it is great, keep chirping 2nd all the time, and with heavy 17's and a stock engine....well didn't use to do it before . The downside, because i love revving it my fuel economy is suffering, but just a small price to pay as far as i'm concerned
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Sweet man. Just don't want to have to go out and buy an angle grinder!! :P I'll have to be the hacksaw man for this one.
Should have some time this week to get my template together so I'll post up some pics of my kellogs cornflakes air box :P
Top work man!!
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The template is deffinately a good idea mate, something i didn't do, which meant i had to keep going back and forth to the car and make small adjustments, alot easier with cardboard than with aluminium.
Anyways this is what i did in the few spare hours i had b4 work (better start get ready for it  )
Don't be hating the sticker, it's the only one i had lying around, need to get me a 'Bunnings' one from somewhere and a few more. Like the way RMN15N's one turned out with stickers so i'm gonna do the same.
The cf film cost me more than the aluminium , and it's not even the same shade, bah close enough
One suggestion, when you are working with the aluminium, wear some dirty/old clothes and DO NOT do it under a tree, no matter how nice of a day it is, both me and my tools got shat on by the birds above 
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HAHAHAH Thanks for the tip RE: the tree!!
Looks good man. I'll probably end up spraying mine the same colour as the bodywork of the car. Depends what the aluminium looks like in its raw form tho.
How much were the materials if you don't mind tellin us all??
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i was doin up a template for my setup just before i jumped on OH and the only major thing stopping it from being air tight is the clutch line and the shape of the strut tower. They're slightly abnormal but i reckon a bit of fancy design work will solve it 
J
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Materials:
Aluminium sheet $26.25 from bunnings, i think it was 900x500mm still have more than half of it left, i also got some brackets (only ended up using one to bolt the bottom piece to the strut tower where the air box bolted up to -pkt of 5 brackets + 10 screws 4.90)
And the CF film was $39.99 , but i bought it anyways because i really really wanted the cf look.
As for being airtight i need to redesign, as Jason said the clutch line is a b!7ch to get around and the shape of the strut tower, but i guess if i made a fibreglass mould from on it, it could work. I'm happy for now though, just need to get that "bunnings" sticker , ohh and Trav if you got a CF one sure, y not
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clutch line issues r easy solved. i have a stainless steel braided line my garage thatll help with it.
top stuff guys. if u get it air tight it would be damn near perfect
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