PD160 Intake for Â£49.95 Inc. Postage

KennyPOLO_Gti · Post by **KennyPOLO_Gti** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:42 am

A friend of mine has been after a PD160 Intake for a while now and doesnt want to pay the 70 odd quid SEAT are quoting him! Which is fair enough as its a total rip off!

Anyway I came across some one who is selling them at the price above which is a nice saving compared to SEATs price! So thought I would post his details on here:

His name is Simon and his email address is [email protected].

Give him a email sayin u got his email from kenny on polouk.net.

Gti_Lew · Post by **Gti_Lew** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:28 pm

good find!

KennyPOLO_Gti · Post by **KennyPOLO_Gti** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:05 pm

Yeah thot so too. Spread the word on any other forums you are all on. Then maybe SEAT will think twice bought hiking up there price of a bit of plastic tubing!

insanekiwi · Post by **insanekiwi** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:50 am

KennyPOLO_Gti wrote:Yeah thot so too. Spread the word on any other forums you are all on. Then maybe SEAT will think twice bought hiking up there price of a bit of plastic tubing!

Does he have quite a few?? Will he be keen on shipping it overseas? i.e. New Zealand?

Thanks!

KennyPOLO_Gti · Post by **KennyPOLO_Gti** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:05 pm

Not sure mate. Give him an email and ask him. Its on the 1st post

MarcoPolo · Post by **MarcoPolo** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:07 pm

KennyPOLO_Gti wrote:Then maybe SEAT will think twice bought hiking up there price of a bit of plastic tubing!

Mercedes did the same thing when they discovered the Sprinter's front mount intercoolers were being used on other vehicles (Golfs mainly). They hiked the price up from ~Â£90 to 4 times that. Swines!

I think the 'Mum's the word' should be the strategy employed in future

Just send eachother PMs and don't broad cast it

KennyPOLO_Gti · Post by **KennyPOLO_Gti** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:25 pm

MarcoPolo wrote:
KennyPOLO_Gti wrote:Then maybe SEAT will think twice bought hiking up there price of a bit of plastic tubing!
Mercedes did the same thing when they discovered the Sprinter's front mount intercoolers were being used on other vehicles (Golfs mainly). They hiked the price up from ~Â£90 to 4 times that. Swines!

I think the 'Mum's the word' should be the strategy employed in future Just send eachother PMs and don't broad cast it

Would be very hard to keep it a secret. Way toooo many people on different forums etc! Would be good tho

more-bhp · Post by **more-bhp** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:50 pm

50 notes for a couple of bits of plastic....

Not even I'm that mad...lol

KennyPOLO_Gti · Post by **KennyPOLO_Gti** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:08 pm

It is proven to benifit the cars preformance. So why not? Am no keen on drillin ma airbox would u not lose some air through the holes as its goin a such a quick rate?

more-bhp · Post by **more-bhp** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:11 pm

When the parts were more like Â£25 then fair enough..

But the drilled airbox is just as proven.... its an age old mod on the 1.8T

And it costs nothing to do

KennyPOLO_Gti · Post by **KennyPOLO_Gti** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:24 am

Am just wonderin, when the airbox is not drilled the air has only one way to go ( thru the filter etc) but if u start opening it up will it not start escapin thro the holes? The way i think about it is ( And i mite be wrong) if u blow thro a straw with no holes in it ur gonna get out what u blow in, if u start puttin holes in it ur gonna lose air and get a lower flow rate at the end of it???

BeezerDiesel · Post by **BeezerDiesel** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:14 am

Thing to remember here Kenny is the turbo sucks through the airbox not blows, so the more air it can get in the better.
SEAT wouldn't go to the trouble of designing a seperate intake for the PD160 if there wasn't a very good reason for it. It's not fitted to the Cupra 1.8t Ibiza so obviously the PD160 TDI needs a LOT of air. I guess that's because of the extra fuelling over the 130 to release the extra power needing extra intake air (bearing in mind a Diesel has no throttle butterfly) to keep the exhaust smoke free.

Tricks I learnt years ago when messing about with old VW GTIs (which had no turbos obviously) was that a long thin intake gave better low end torque and a short fat one gave better top end. VW were also aware of this and gave the later V6 engines a variable intake that switched between the two.
Lots of swirl is desirable in the intake but with modern engines the MAF and it's housing is the weak point. I would think a Cupra R/TT 225 MAF housing would be a good upgrade if you start making lots of holes in your airbox. Just my 2p worth and I'll bend over and get ready for the flaming.....

KennyPOLO_Gti · Post by **KennyPOLO_Gti** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:34 am

I see I see, cheers for clearin that up breezer

andy947 · Post by **andy947** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:38 am

I'll stick to using the positive pressure caused by the intake at the grille though a 160 Intake rather than drilling holes in the airbox.....

Standard airboxes have been proven to be good enough for big power increases on other cars in the platfrom (Fabia's and Ibiza's)

There's a 320bhp IHI'd 9N3 GTI that still runs the standard airbox. . . Admitedly with a Seat lid to allow use of a bigger MAF to suit the increased airlfow. . . . .

BeezerDiesel · Post by **BeezerDiesel** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:44 pm

Agreed with the grumpy one ^^^^

But at the end of the day it's your airbox so you can do what you like with it! Bit of experiment from those brave enough is all good experience for the rest of us.