Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:52:53 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Cold Air Intake
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I think I have all that snorkel/tube/airbox stuff out of a 1990 2.1. It's
all plastic, no paper. If anyone is interested in buying the setup I can go
check and see if I still have it all.
Jim
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> I had replaced this tube on my 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile with
> 2.1 L engine with a piece of aluminum dryer duct. It worked fine.
> However, when I put in a Ten Cent Life external oil cooler, that came with
> a very high quality rubber snorkel to replace my jury rigged version.
>
> mcneely
>
> ---- Dan N <dn92610@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > on the passenger side rear pillar there's a tube routing the fresh air in
> > to the air filter box. That tube is made of reinforced cardboard, mine is
> > collapsing from the inside, restricting the air flow. I took the tube
> out,
> > remove the collapsed material...
> >
> > image of the tube:
> > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=1267738
> >
> > a look of the inside:
> > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=1267739
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Raymond Markett <raym02@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > If the air filter isn't the bottleneck, then a less restrictive filter
> > > won't do much good. Eyeballing the WBX intake tract makes me think the
> > > throttle body is the choke point.
> > >
> > > Raymond
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > > > On Mar 29, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > RE: K&N Filter in a WBX
> > > >
> > > > When I first got my '90 Westy I picked up a K&N filter. On my first
> long
> > > > trip I kept careful numbers on gas mileage. at the midpoint of the
> trip,
> > > > at about 1,300 miles, I swapped in the K&N. When I got home I
> compared
> > > > numbers, fresh stock air filter on the first half of the trip vs. the
> > > K&N.
> > > > And not a whit of difference that I could see. I used the K&N for
> > > several
> > > > years but got lazy and went back to stock filters, don't have to
> clean
> > > and
> > > > oil them. As Dennis said there have been various reports over time
> that
> > > > the K&N does not really do that good a job as an air filter.
> > >
>
> --
> David McNeely
>
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