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does any1 know if instead of makin an induction kit i would be able to just take the original round air filter out ,and then put a universal air filter on the end of the air intake pipe near the grille? just wondering, but wasnt sure if would work

I can't see why that wouldn't work, but i'm sure someone will tell me otherwise..c'mon tahrey

You do get a nice sound with the cone filter.

i dont know of anything, sorry

thats why i was fired up about the homemade induction thing (yknow, the one with the golf airbox and the k&n) til other concerns got in the way

if you were driving a corsa, sure, but mk3 polos are mostly left in the cold so far as commercial bolt-ons are concerned. you might be able to get a k&n dustbin lid style filter (assuming yours is SPi) that replaces your whole airbox/filter/induction horn, but you'll have to make a bonnet vent for that otherwise you'll but running on hot, stagnant air rather than cold fast-moving stuff.

I'm using the golf/passat airbox with cone filter at the moment and its definatley worth the hassle of sourcing the parts needed.

induction kit is all good!

however, a friend of mine has used to have a mk3 golf but it was an early one which still had a dustbin lid on it! he bought an induction kit for his, all that did was take out the origional filter and bolt on a cone on the end of the pipe that comes off the dustbin lid!

you maybe able to do something like that but u need to be exact with what you order!

as for noise from an induction kit, it is great, i am now waiting for hardhitter to send my exhaust which will hopefully hide the sewing machine noise when you come off the gas!

I did that to my 1.3 CL. All you need to do is block off the hot air system (unplug the vacuum pipe from the airbox and put a screw in the pipe so your engine doesnt loose vacuum. (although on this pic I havent done that yet) Heres what I did:



but imo it was better when I did this. (with the K&N round filter I had back in the dustbin lid obviously)



but again the golf setup would be better.

cmon metz get some pics of your iduction kit

madmatt wrote:cmon metz get some pics of your iduction kit

I'll beat him to it! click the link and go to the bottom of the page, thats what my induction kit looks like!

http://www.angelfire.com/punk4/doug_and ... avard.html

unplug the vacuum pipe from the airbox and put a screw in the pipe so your engine doesnt loose vacuum.

what kind of problems would that cause then?

cuz for a while i ran the car about with nothing attached to the binlid at all, and the pipe disconnected too, but not blocked off
also recently when i was playing with the brakes, the pipe itself was off for a couple days because it got knocked off the underside of the binlid and that's a bugger to reattach...

hm?

oh and whats that mysterious black box just above the headlamp?

and doug/dan, what and where (and how!) is this?!?

Well if its not blocked off it could potentially suck crap into the engine.

That black box is the s**t alarm i had on it.

done it anyway, sounds better than before, still want a backbox though wen ive got cash

Heres some pics of my induction kit, and a strange man >





Madmatt trying not to look so mad>



OOPS! forgot to resize em...

strange man CHEERS METZ that be £200 for the suspension upgrade lol

Ok npz, deduct it from the £300 for that dvd

Tahrey1043 wrote:
and doug/dan, what and where (and how!) is this?!?

what: sort of a groovy material stuff
where: its the bit in between the two side windows!!
How: well my car is groovy and obviously your car isn't!

you can get these through VAG-parts.com so ask matryn, i did have the part numbers for them, if ya interested i'll try dig them out for ya!