hi everyone and MERRY XMAS to you all. i have done a quick search and havent seen what im about to ask pop up.

right, i have a green cotton filter in my standard 6 airbox after fitting this some time ago now i have found that the car was and is more responsive when you stamp on the loud pedal.

then i had a thought ........ lets see if i can make the old girl suck a bit more?? what i did was remove the small secondary air box and capped off the hole for it. I then removed the main pipe from the top of the air box leading to the slam panel because in standard situe i noticed the there is a gap between pipe and box which must be about 15mm.

anyway i pootled down to my local exhaust place and made a stainless steel sleeve which i flared to fit tight into the top of the box, we then spot welded it into place to make sure of no movement. We then flared the other end so that it would fit extremely tightly into the existing cold fit and buzzed a bead of silicone round to make doubely sure it was all air tight.

Now we have no gap and a very air tight feed. when the car is ticking over you can feel the air feed sucking, and when you twist the throttle it really sucks alot of air with a very subtle induction kit noise. so i took the car for a spin and hey presto even more response when you hit the loud pedal.

But today after a conversation with a fellow forum member he suggested cutting a hole in the cold air feed roughly where the bit sits closed for even more air. his reason of thinking was due to the feed pipe being situated under the grill.

IMO i think this could be an excellent idea but what do you all think? as said above she already sucks alot of air with the mods i have made to the box. If this will aid induction anymore then im game!!!!

sorry for the essay, Im not really a believer in iduction kits really unless you have a proper enclosed one with good air supply e.g down by the fog light. However with our terrible english weather i would be scared in sucking up water.

Thanks in advance guys

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Team Nile 6
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5 x a 306 owner!
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Build date: 29th October 1997 Wednesday's car
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as you stand looking over the engine bay so the airbox is to your right look down and to the left of the air box and you will see a small secondary air box. i assume by routing the air on a longer journey it quietens the sound of induction and doesnt breathe aswell. have it gone

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Team Nile 6
Team: 40.2 MPG
5 x a 306 owner!
currently abusing type r's in a town near you ™
I truely live for the 306 ®
Build date: 29th October 1997 Wednesday's car
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That's the one. The purpose of it is stated above

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Team Nile 6
Team: 40.2 MPG
5 x a 306 owner!
currently abusing type r's in a town near you ™
I truely live for the 306 ®
Build date: 29th October 1997 Wednesday's car
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Im hoping to achieve this aswell by cutting the snorkel back to the more air the bet IMO. Do you have any pictures of how you have cut yours??

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Team Nile 6
Team: 40.2 MPG
5 x a 306 owner!
currently abusing type r's in a town near you ™
I truely live for the 306 ®
Build date: 29th October 1997 Wednesday's car
midweek madness

not sure about the 306 but on the xsara there are some holes in the slam panel directly below the mouth of the scoop which will obviously disturb the airflow coming in thru the grille, so i screwed a bit of stainless plate onto the back of the scoop where the mesh screws on to deflect the airflow straight up into the scoop, and there were 4 holes about 10mm diameter in the scoop where it goes down the back of the rad, i taped them up to stop it sucking in warm air, and finally i made a custom airbox out of aluminium, very similar to the OE box but to fit over a K&N 57i and shaped to send the air spiralling round the filter instead of straight onto one side of it.

Will take some next time I'm out there

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Red GTB1756 powered Fabia VRS daily driver,LBSC Gti6 eater........

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As I said not sure whether it's made much difference as i also tightened the throttle cable at the same time too, but it's definitely worth giving it a go, car is running sweet at the moment!

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Going to set mr Stanley to work once I get in from work if it's still light and hopefully it will make a difference

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Team Nile 6
Team: 40.2 MPG
5 x a 306 owner!
currently abusing type r's in a town near you ™
I truely live for the 306 ®
Build date: 29th October 1997 Wednesday's car
midweek madness

thats a really good job have you found an improvement?

i have now done mine and found the car was hesitant for a day or so but now it seem to pull harder and pick up better.

did you also experiance this?

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Team Nile 6
Team: 40.2 MPG
5 x a 306 owner!
currently abusing type r's in a town near you ™
I truely live for the 306 ®
Build date: 29th October 1997 Wednesday's car
midweek madness

haha!! bad times. what are you doing to it?

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Team Nile 6
Team: 40.2 MPG
5 x a 306 owner!
currently abusing type r's in a town near you ™
I truely live for the 306 ®
Build date: 29th October 1997 Wednesday's car
midweek madness

I will take a peek

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Team Nile 6
Team: 40.2 MPG
5 x a 306 owner!
currently abusing type r's in a town near you ™
I truely live for the 306 ®
Build date: 29th October 1997 Wednesday's car
midweek madness