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#1 Posted : Wednesday, 26 April 2017 10:31:58 PM(UTC)
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Hi All

Ive come across couple of guys with fairly standard red 308s who have run a hose from the standard air cleaner to the front grille to benefit from a cooler air feed.
Question is, in a fairly standard motor, would this alone really make a difference that you would notice?


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#2 Posted : Thursday, 27 April 2017 3:27:19 AM(UTC)
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I would think the friction loss through the small inlet hole and corresponding small hose into the standard housing would negate any benefit?
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#3 Posted : Thursday, 27 April 2017 6:20:59 AM(UTC)
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If you're running a larger opening on the aircleaner (like the VH/VK Brock type) and a suitably large cold air intake duct, then it can make a dramatic difference during slow moving, stop/start traffic, and general around town type driving, where heat soak under the bonnet becomes an issue for the air going into the carby, and there's not enough air speed to cool the engine bay.

At high speed on the open road, there's usually enough airflow within the engine bay to almost negate the need for it. The "ram air" effect of it facing the front also makes negligible difference at legal speeds, and it would be unlikely that you'd detect any difference there.

But overall, anything you can do to improve the flow of cooler air into the engine will make an improvement, with the only exception being the warm-up cycle, where warm air is desirable to aid combustion (via better atomisation) in a cold motor.

I went into more detail with my Commodore 308 experience here: http://www.fastlane.com....--torque.aspx#post170890
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Didn't the reverse scoop on the VL Group A actually allow more air flow than a forward facing one? Lower air pressure?
Is there a Brock style cold air intake to suit a WB Magnum available? I would love to find one.
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#5 Posted : Thursday, 27 April 2017 8:23:20 AM(UTC)
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I was talking to Chiptorque about a V6 Hilux they dynoed. Some idiot put a snorkel on it - and it lost over 5rwkW with the addition of the snorkel (it was done before and after).

Note that these already have a cold air intake, but it is reasonably small. They suffer from heat soak in the air cleaner housing as it is attached to the top of the engine. TRD make a separate air box that sits behind the headlight (like a Commodore), and the opening in the inner guard is opened up. This mod is good for near to 8kW over the standard setup, even more when the engine is hot. I have noticed it with mine - how much more responsive it is in the morning before the whole engine bay heats up.

For a HQ I'd get hold of a VC-VK HDT style air cleaner with the bigger inlet (or just modify an original to have a bigger inlet which would give you the option of pointing the inlet where you like) and run a pipe to where you can suck cooler air. You could even try a Corvette style with twin inlets which will fit on a Quadrajet, and run pipes to both corners of the engine bay.
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#6 Posted : Thursday, 27 April 2017 7:00:31 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: wbute Go to Quoted Post
Didn't the reverse scoop on the VL Group A actually allow more air flow than a forward facing one? Lower air pressure?
Is there a Brock style cold air intake to suit a WB Magnum available? I would love to find one.


The VL Group A scoop fed air into a duct in the plenum (which required the plenum separator to be cut out to fit it), which was then piped around to the air cleaner. The other end of that duct also went down along the chassis rail to pick up cold air from the front of the car.

You can see the upper duct in this pic, and the elbow that is part of the lower, front-facing duct as well:




The VC was the first Brock with a cold-air duct, and used a version of a Chev air cleaner. They also cut out part of the radiator support to allow air into the duct from behind the LH end of the grille:




VH/VK used the original Holden style air cleaner, but with the wide-mouth snorkel on it, and a similar plastic duct to the VC:





The WB also followed the VH/VK theme, but with the snorkel pointing the other way:

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I would love the WB one!
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#8 Posted : Thursday, 27 April 2017 10:29:42 PM(UTC)
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With the VL one, does it let the air flow straight out the plenum or does it draw air in there?
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#9 Posted : Friday, 28 April 2017 12:33:51 AM(UTC)
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The NACA scoop on the bonnet feeds in via the bonnet's plastic grille (on all VL bonnets) into the plenum, directly above where that rectangular section of duct is in the plenum.

So at speed, there would be more air coming in via that path, than what would enter from the front.
This setup was only fitted to the VL Group A as standard, but it could be ordered on any VL V8 HDT.

You can go further than that, with a "race tray" that fits under the air cleaner (sealing it up against the bonnet) and it is matched up (but not connected firmly) to a duct in the plenum to direct air down into it. The earlier race trays ran to the front - over the top of the radiator, and there was a gap between the bonnet & grille that allowed enough air in to feed the tray. With the new front design on the VL, this was no longer possible (flush-fitting bonnet) so that was the alternative.

There is another version of the "factory" VL Group A CAI that only has the front half - the rear section of the T on the end of the air cleaner is capped off - cars like the Calais Sport & the like only had the front half of the full Group A system, unless optioned up.
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I guess they did this to the 173/2850 6 cylinders for a performance reason???? I think the strarfire 4 got a a similar air cleaner in the VC commies...I think.


Thx to the ebay seller for copy on this pic, this does not have the extension on it.

I often wondered if fitting this to the 3300/ 202 would have made much of a improvement as they used the same shape as previous models.

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#11 Posted : Friday, 28 April 2017 11:08:31 PM(UTC)
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I did put one of those on a VC 3.3L in the early 90s. It also has a plastic duct that runs down the LH chassis rail to pick up cold air (and inspired the VL HDT one).
Didn't make much of a difference in outright power, but in slow moving traffic on hot days you could feel the difference.
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#12 Posted : Saturday, 29 April 2017 4:03:16 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: commodorenut Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: wbute Go to Quoted Post
Didn't the reverse scoop on the VL Group A actually allow more air flow than a forward facing one? Lower air pressure?
Is there a Brock style cold air intake to suit a WB Magnum available? I would love to find one.


The VL Group A scoop fed air into a duct in the plenum (which required the plenum separator to be cut out to fit it), which was then piped around to the air cleaner. The other end of that duct also went down along the chassis rail to pick up cold air from the front of the car.

You can see the upper duct in this pic, and the elbow that is part of the lower, front-facing duct as well:




The VC was the first Brock with a cold-air duct, and used a version of a Chev air cleaner. They also cut out part of the radiator support to allow air into the duct from behind the LH end of the grille:




VH/VK used the original Holden style air cleaner, but with the wide-mouth snorkel on it, and a similar plastic duct to the VC:





The WB also followed the VH/VK theme, but with the snorkel pointing the other way:



I have never seen a WB air filter like that, is it a Brock WB Statesman.

A mate put a WB Statesman 5.0L in his WB 1 tonne, but only put a snorkel on the end of the stock air filter when we went through deep creeks with it and he just bent that pipe around to sit at the top of the dizzy, we would spray all the plugs leads and dizzy with CRC. it was that deep that water was coming over the tray, that I had to stand up in the back holding on to our gear out of the water between both of our dirt bikes, and that WB never missed a beat, with water coming over the bonnet and all. I could not believe it made it through and he blew up a rodeo the type just before the Colorado's came out, going through them creeks once and a V8 Land cruiser.

So the thing is with cold air setups, just remember if they are any good going through how much water.
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Yes, it's a WB Magnum (in response to wbute's question).

HSV had an early VN cold air duct that ran through the bottom of the airbox & into the wheel-well area, in front of the passenger front wheel.
It was revised soon after when problems arose with engines taking in water - just from large puddles & the like during heavy rain.

After that all VN-VS (and most of the later ones too) Holden & HSV air box inlets were either aimed at the area behind the LH headlight (a surprising amount of air comes in around the lights) or over the top of the radiator - taking advantage of the air that comes in between the top of the grille/bumper, and the bonnet.
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