Velossa Tech Design - BIG MOUTH development

[fifteen5oh]

I said "screw it" and picked up a Labor Day Special in blue and snagged a GT grill off Ebay. Rather have the snorkel work as intended (with the honeycombs cut out and fully open). Function > Form.

Labor Day special >????

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[whatdoyoufeedit?]

Labor Day special >????

http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63699

 

[VelossaTech]

Some new blue...

 

[whatdoyoufeedit?]

Some new blue...

Nice, is that one mine?

 

[VelossaTech]

If your name begins with an A and last name begins with an L then YES IT IS YOURS.

 

[GTP]

As long as my car is in the shop with the front bumper off, I might as well do this mod. Dremel and almost 2 hours.

 

[Rebellion]

As long as my car is in the shop with the front bumper off, I might as well do this mod. Dremel and almost 2 hours.

How did you do it?

I've seen some people drill a hole and then dremel out...some just sand the back until the plastic is gone. Yours is the cleanest I've seen, it looks stock!

 

[GTP]

Thanks. Well, it wasn't as easy, or as quick, or as precise as I wanted.

I have a Dremel 4000 series kit, which comes with a long (too long) 1/8" diameter "routing" bit. Spiral flutes. I used a speed of 15-20,000.

This bit also has drill bit style tip. So I just pushed it up into the cell from the bottom, and then worked around the hex frame. Sometimes it wanted to grab, but it never quite chewed into the hex frame walls.

Then I followed that up with a small long-taper cone small grinding bit. This was a way to clean up the final ridge, as well as sand off all the plastic hairs left behind.

In hindsight, I might have looked longer to find a shorter steel bit with higher-rate spiral flutes. That may have given me more control.

 

[dubster99]

Has anybody datalogged and checked their MAF rate before and after this mod?

 

[Screwdgie]

Has anybody datalogged and checked their MAF rate before and after this mod?

I seemed to have picked up .5-.75 lb/min according to recent datalogs I have done. I also added an AEM dryflo filter at the same time so not sure how much each picked up individually, but I definitely feel an improvement, especially at higher speeds. I have also noticed the boost gauge consistently shows around 1-1.5 psi of boost and slowly tapers down when I hit it at highway speeds

 

[VelossaTech]

I seemed to have picked up .5-.75 lb/min according to recent datalogs I have done. I also added an AEM dryflo filter at the same time so not sure how much each picked up individually, but I definitely feel an improvement, especially at higher speeds. I have also noticed the boost gauge consistently shows around 1-1.5 psi of boost and slowly tapers down when I hit it at highway speeds

This is great news, not a surprise to me! :cheers:

Thank you :hail:

 

[stoli]

How did you do it?

I've seen some people drill a hole and then dremel out...some just sand the back until the plastic is gone. Yours is the cleanest I've seen, it looks stock!

The easy, clean, and quick way is to take a router bit (Dremel or otherwise) to the back side just deep enough to get past the plastic fill, maybe 1/4".

Or just cut the hole thing out and be done with it - don't mind the dirt, did a little off-road at the track in the rain.

Untitled by Stoli-v, on Flickr

 

[Poppacapp]

Hmm.. I have a PMAS CAI without OEM snorkle(and box opened up more). I'm sure this defintely couldn't hurt anything

 

[Poppacapp]

Open element box benefits would most likely only be pushing ambient air more efficiently to the airbox I assume

 

[Terminator2]

Open element box benefits would most likely only be pushing ambient air more efficiently to the airbox I assume

Yes

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