Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 10:57:45 -0500
Reply-To: "P.Dooley" <pdooley@VERIZON.NET>
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From: "P.Dooley" <pdooley@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: K&N Cone filters Cold Air Intake for vanagon-eliminate
factory airbox
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John, the adapter plate bolts to the intake side of the AFM in place of
the factory plastic air box. The air box is eliminated.
The adapter converts AFM inlet from square to round, which gives many
options for cold air intake. You can run a dryer duct or even metal
exhaust plumbing to a cold intake air location and top it off with a KN
style filter if desired.
The advantage is cold air intake, the disadvantage for northern folk is
no more preheat for cold climates. The advantage for me is clearance.
The factory Golf airbox will not fit A1 chassis(Rabbit). I can run a
pipe topped with a conical filter to wherever I want.
I'm gonna do this mod on my rabbit powered vanagon, as the digifant FI
from the Jetta uses the same airbox, which fits kinda awkward in the
Van.
With the adapter I can run the intake pipe to a filter location of my
choice.
Just gives you a lot more options.
PS- This mod is for late Vanagons equipped with Digifant2. I'm not sure
if the early Digijet AFM's are the same.
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of John Rodgers
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 1:11 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: K&N Cone filters Cold Air Intake for vanagon-eliminate
factory airbox
This sounds very interesting, but I guess I have a case of dumb. I don't
understand exactly what you are saying here. I'm not all that familiar
with all the components youare refering to. It does sound like you have
solved a problem, but on a larger scale what is the overall significance
for the rest of us?? Is there some sort of advantage to be gained with
all this?
Really, I don't mean to be dense about it, but I would appreciate some
more explanation about the significance of these conponents as relates
to the WBX's.
Thanks,
Regards.
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
P.Dooley wrote:
>A follow-up to this email...
>I am building a digifant2 VW and needed this mod, since the factory
>airbox wont fit my application.
>
>I got all excited after reading Chris's original email and went to the
>local junkyard to scout the Escorts.
>As it turns out, no Escort uses this adapter plate. They all have the
>square inlet AFM that bolt to plastic airbox, like VW. Furthermore, no
>Tempo or Taurus does either.
>Dejected, I went home.
>
>Well, today I had some time to kill so cleaned the garage. I came
>across some old AFM's from my 2.3T Merkur days. Low and behold, they
>have the exact adapter plate Chris is talking about. The 87-88 2.3T
>Thunderbird Turbocoupe uses a bigger AFM and corresponding plate, but
>the early TC and Xr4Ti AFM's use a smaller plate that bolts to the VW
>AFM perfectly. The Ford parts are indeed Bosch pieces, so I would
>expect that.
>
>So, a Christmas present for me:) Thanks to Chris for giving me some
>insight, thanks to dumb luck for finding the exact part I needed under
>my nose.
>
>Thought the list may be able to use the info.
>
>Merry Christmas, peace to all.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>Of JordanVw@AOL.COM
>Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:00 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: K&N Cone filters Cold Air Intake for vanagon-eliminate factory
>airbox
>
>i have a adapter that will bolt up to the AFM:
>http://www.sonic.net/~its4pla/ebay/K&N-Adaptor.jpg
> this will allow you to eliminate your factory airbox and run 3" dia
>dryer
>duct or PVC tube to outside the engine bay, into the right rear scoop
>area, and
>you can put a K&N cone filter on it.. i thought about doing this..
>
>from what someone told me, this adapter was also used on all '92-'96
>Ford
>Escorts, so i bet finding one would be easy.. i bought mine from
>eurosport. its
>for use on all Digi FI motors..
>
>chris
>
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