Airbox is GAY!!!

[thedjse]

Yes as title people i am making my engine all nice with hoses and paint but i have this big gay airbox/pan saton top of it

Now my question is:

I have a mk1 is there anyway i can change the filter????

Any advice would be helpful

[Welsh Dan]

If its a carb model, you can fit a shiny K&N if you so wish. Personally I'd clean then paint the airbox, I think they'd look good in crackle effect paint.

[craig green]

Engine???????

Assume its a carbed small block. K&N or whatever carb top filter. Though seeing as std seems cool nowadays, spray teh pancake filter black & have it looking spangly.

[Dod]

Yep, get a K&N Bolt on for around £50. Nice Shiney Chrome thing it is as well.

[thedjse]

It is the carb model its only a 1.2 i know what your saying about spraying the airbox but i just hate it lol

Is there anyway i can get a cone induction kit on it or not?

[L33 LEG]

you'l need the top filters as said. i think iv got one somewhere, havnt the faintest idea where tho sorry.

you got any pics of the bay at the mo?

[Dod]

You could modify an Astra SPi top hat and fit a cone to the piping off it.

Or some 1200i Corsas have a NASA style Airbox system that might make it look like you got a bigger engine and tidy the bay up. It'll take a little modding to make it fit but worth a mention.

[thedjse]

Yeah Lee its nowhere near finished so bare that in mind lol

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff30/thedjse/My%20Nova%202/DSCN1176.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff30/thedjse/My%20Nova%202/DSCN1179.jpg

[mowgli]

go to a scrappers & find something cool looking & mackle it on.

[L33 LEG]

first thing you should do is give that bay a bloody wash lol

and also, if you are wanting to hide as many wires as poss, cable tie the front wires underneath the slam panel like iv done.

[thedjse]

Yeah i know it needs a good clean they was just to see what it would look like the washer bottles are coming off for a clean and spray!!!!

Any pics of yours Lee mate

[AlexW]

Im going to be using a astra Spi elbow on my 1.4. not so much of a bodge as the 1.2 but imo its worth it, means you can show off your cam cover, even more so as the standard OHC cover can be polished.

Is that carb what i think it is?

Edit 2: Catch me on msn want to ask you summin.... :p

[L33 LEG]

Yeah i know it needs a good clean they was just to see what it would look like the washer bottles are coming off for a clean and spray!!!!

Any pics of yours Lee mate

mines nothing special at all, and iv no decent pics to show u were my wires are. this will have to do:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i184/L33LEG/the%20nova%20project/nova300-1.jpg

again, not the best of pics. but with a bit of cutting and extending, all wires can be hidden :) just do something similar with ur bay

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i184/L33LEG/the%20nova%20project/nova306-1.jpg

[thedjse]

So what have you done moved them from the top to the bottom?

[thedjse]

Im going to be using a astra Spi elbow on my 1.4. not so much of a bodge as the 1.2 but imo its worth it, means you can show off your cam cover, even more so as the standard OHC cover can be polished.

Is that carb what i think it is?

Edit 2: Catch me on msn want to ask you summin.... :p

Yes it is the carb your thinking

[L33 LEG]

So what have you done moved them from the top to the bottom?

in the engine bay? yes, just makes it look a little tidier tbh and just tidy every wire possible. as for the interior, was a little more tricky as the wires needed to be extended in some places.