tonsa92

My car is a Audi 80 2.0e -94.
i was planning to change the original air filter into a cone filter, but i encountered several problems.

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What should i do to those two little tubes (blue circle) and to that bigger tube (red circle)?

Lago Blue

Leave it alone until you know what you are doing. By then you'll know to leave it alone. The OEM airbox will forever exceed your needs. Almost anything you could replace it with is retrograde.

If you want to make the car more fun to drive, if you haven't already, consider renewing all the bushings in your suspension.

egp320i

Don't buy into the hype. K&N might give you 1HP more but will let in much more dirt, the oil can sheer off and coat your MAF thus ruining it [300-400 part]. It is just not worth the hassle for such a small gain you will never notice.

Buy a new OEM paper filter like Mann or Mahle and be done with it.

I had both a K&N and Amsoil and I seen no gain but plenty of headaches.

tonsa92

i was planning to change the filter for sounds, not to gain power. But if you change filter into a "better" one, it doesnt effect the sounds?

Loudgoldwing

german vehicle = narrow tolerances.

Sure, it'll sound different.

1) It'll sound like you're pulling too much contamination into
your throttle body.

2) It'll sound like you're giving your ECM a heart attack by
feeding engine-heated air through your MAF.

3) It'll sound like the sweet sizzle of a million microsopic
droplets of filter oil transmographizing into an acidic
char... gently gnawing at the heated element of your MAF

4) It'll sound like a gas nozzle being pulled from a pump and
placed back into a pump about 20% more often than before.

5) And then it will sound like the wind winding its way through
the neighborhood trees... and the song of the bluebird in
the morning, as your vehicle will make no sound at all to
interrupt them.

Your car, your call. My expertise, my experience. Your wallet. 'Nuff said.

tonsa92

what do you think about those "dry" filters, which doesnt need oil?

tonsa92

and, i was asking instructions for installing cone filter, not info about the filter

varia

Loudgoldwing is totally right. Why would you want to give hot air from the engine bay to you engine whit this con filter?

tonsa92

cold air/ram air intake gives hot air to engine?

varia

A so called cold air intake, sucking hot air from the engine bay


or a proper ducting, sucking real cold, fresh air?


What do you think?