Where did you purchase your y-pipe from? Prices and quality vary, streettrends has one for like $400 and ebay has a system for around $30 so I'm curious as to where you purchased it from.
I'm curious cause right now i'm running a snubnose with an inverted cone.
I bought a really cheap POS on ebay sold as a C5 intake. A quick search on ebay shows prices have gone up. The filters are cheap ones that came with, the chrome is poor quality.
If I had it to do over I know a guy who is amazing with a TIG and I would just buy some aluminum tube and have him weld it up.
The guy is very good because he does food grade plumbing, welds inside need to be about indistinguishable from the tube so that there are no pores for bacterial to grow in, granted that is stainless but TIG skills are TIG skills and I have seen some of his aluminum work.
Hmmm... a custom made one isn't a bad idea. Here's another question, hopefully in your domain of expertise. With the filter being so close to the intake, would it be worth coating it to keep the air as cold as possible? Cost wise I'm not sure if it'd be worth it.
I am running the y-pipe inside the RAISS.
The RAISS keeps the hot air away from the pipe anyway.
IMO I do not think coating the RAISS would be a good way to spend money. I suppose there is some chance it would make a slight difference for the first second or two of a drag race but after that there is so much air moving on both sides of the RAISS I can't see it being a big deal. This is one of the bench racing sales points for the SSRI though, it being plastic it would insulate better, might be harder to get dual filters into though and cracking is a possibility.
Far as cost/benefit it drives me wild to see people "save" a few hundred dollars buying a product they often admit is second rate only to then turn around and waste $1000 on things that wont really help when $300 more on the first item would have gotten them TOP notch would have netted them a bigger gain.
There are a lot of things many consider necessary I don't have, I have spent good money on some key things and held back on other items to get my better than average results. There are also things I have done that I did just because my car was top of the heap and I wanted the extra .1 but would not suggest everyone go do it. So please ask questions about what I would do again not just copy what I have, if I can help you improve on what I did or save a buck and get the same result that would be great.
I don't know they were just whatever came with the y-pipe.
I didn't replace them partially because I figured with two of them it wasn't sucking on them too hard.
I honestly always wanted to try and get a big paper panel in there somehow. Gauze filters despite the marketing behind them do NOT filter well.
I don't know they were just whatever came with the y-pipe.
I didn't replace them partially because I figured with two of them it wasn't sucking on them too hard.
I honestly always wanted to try and get a big paper panel in there somehow. Gauze filters despite the marketing behind them do NOT filter well.
I've always heard the same thing about gauze. Unfortunately availability is there for those, and not for the others... There is a brand on the SS forums crowned "filter god" but i can't remember what it is right now.. :dunno:
Couldn't you build a sheet metal plate to cover over the main intake area with a couple cutouts for standard paper filters? I could have sworn I'd seen that before...
You would have to seal the plumbing coming in as well as it is a slightly oversized hole the MAF just sticks through. It wouldn't be rocket science to figure it out I just didn't put forth the time and don't have much fabrication equipment YET.
Tested the snubnose intake system at the 1/8th mile track this weekend. After removing the weatherstripping on the front of the hood, my times increased by .31 seconds. Not bad considering the mod was free.
i can post the most recent, but i'm positive i never ran better than a 9.81 last year. I do have one other modification, i cut off the axle back exhaust and just dumped it. Other than that, it's the same tires, same intake, ect. It was a PERFECT day though, i doubt i could repeat the 9.50 if I wanted to. However even with a passenger on my worst time (9.75) i still beat my old ones.
To try and suffice, i have old videos:
This run I ran a 9.92..
If you want i'll go get the time slip with the 9.50 but i'm telling the honest truth.
Just to be clear when I asked for the slips I was not accusing you or dishonesty. I wanted to see things like 60ft time. Do you remember the MPH for the old runs vs the new? MPH says a lot about HP even if the wheels spin and hurt the ET.
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