V FORCE pipercross filter

[Gary-Lew]

Do they actually sell these, found this on pipercross website stating they make them, but i cant find anywhere that sells them. been looking for ages for a closed intake( ps i know the graph is for a ctr, look at the top right of graph page

 

[C.slicker]

I was thinking about making one of these today...

Surely they can't be that hard to make at all!

Looks just like a normal air filter, K+N or whatever, CAF and put in a metal box.

How hard can it be?!

Sam

 

[makavelli]

pipercross sacked it off in the end cos of the expense and the sheer size of the thing! i think they also had problems with heat shielding.

they were going to market it at around 400-500 quid iirc

andy

 

[MRBILLYUK]

^^^ Beat me to it , lol .I'm pretty sure they stopped making them for the clio . There was a guy on here a month or two ago from pipercross and we had a bit of a discussion on air filters and i'm sure he said they don't make them for RS clios anymore .

 

[Gary-Lew]

found this on another search, look at the clio 182 power gain down the bottom,

http://www.fastcar.co.uk/Pipercross_launches_F1_spec_filters.YVCpCQtoa2rmWw.html​

 

[MRBILLYUK]

^^^ Don't believe everything you read . I spoke to a guy in research and developement at k+n and he said they saw gains of 10bhp with the apollo .But it was shite imo , strangled the engine and definitely lost power so i sold it

If the v force really did give gains of 11bhp they would have sold lots of them , in reality they probably sold very few , if any , thats why they stopped making them .

 

[C.slicker]

Ok I take back about making it myself lol!

Although one thing I don't get is why it is so important to have a really heat resistant material... cars such as a clio consume well in excess of 3000 litres of air (if IIRC from a convo with stan* a few months back). Is this rapid flow of air really going to be affected at all by a warm box?

Sam

 

[Gary-Lew]

^^^ Don't believe everything you read . I spoke to a guy in research and developement at k+n and he said they saw gains of 10bhp with the apollo .But it was s**te imo , strangled the engine and definitely lost power so i sold it

I know mate, this system looks pretty closed off to engine bay though, all the others. i have tried viper on my old 172, also a standard pipercone, a k&n fipk, theres a standard green cotton induction cone on 182 at the moment. all the ones i have been looking at are virtually impossible to get lol, looked at this aswell. a carbon fibre ram air system by green cotton filters

 

[MRBILLYUK]

Ok I take back about making it myself lol!

Although one thing I don't get is why it is so important to have a really heat resistant material... cars such as a clio consume well in excess of 3000 litres of air (if IIRC from a convo with stan* a few months back). Is this rapid flow of air really going to be affected at all by a warm box?

Sam

Thats exactly what i thought . Even if the airbox / enclosure gets hot the airflow is so fast it would have be superheated to actually heat the incoming cold air .As long as the airfilter isn't exposed to the hot engine bay and there is a good cold air feed then i can't see any problems .

I made my own enclosure with a bog standard k+n cone filter using the original air feeds . Sounds good when you boot it and definitely no loss of power

 

[2FST4U]

sexual verry nice!