Apexi Air Filter inside Standard airbox
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Apexi Air Filter inside Standard airbox
Finally finished the S/S mount , a bit tricky , goes from a square to a 300 mm round and then a flat plate welded to that .
Has certainly made the car crisper and no doubt added a bit to the HP .
It has also added 40 to 50 K's a tankful around town , even my wife commented that it's crisper , not to mention that I will save heaps by not doing a new $35.00 filter every 3 mths !!
Very , very pleased .
Has certainly made the car crisper and no doubt added a bit to the HP .
It has also added 40 to 50 K's a tankful around town , even my wife commented that it's crisper , not to mention that I will save heaps by not doing a new $35.00 filter every 3 mths !!
Very , very pleased .
10-14-06, 02:40 PM
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Finally finished the S/S mount , a bit tricky , goes from a square to a 300 mm round and then a flat plate welded to that .
Has certainly made the car crisper and no doubt added a bit to the HP .
It has also added 40 to 50 K's a tankful around town , even my wife commented that it's crisper , not to mention that I will save heaps by not doing a new $35.00 filter every 3 mths !!
Very , very pleased .
Has certainly made the car crisper and no doubt added a bit to the HP .
It has also added 40 to 50 K's a tankful around town , even my wife commented that it's crisper , not to mention that I will save heaps by not doing a new $35.00 filter every 3 mths !!
Very , very pleased .
Great look.
10-14-06, 04:53 PM
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Right guys , that IS NOT an oil impregnated filter , IT IS DRY , it is an Apexi filter , probably the only pod filter to run , as it not only flows better , BUT it also filters as well as a standard filter !!!!
I have seen the filtering tests , as far as I'm aware it's the only aftermarket filter that filters as well as the standard filter , all of the others are either oil impregnated type filters or they let more air in as well as lots of other stuff ... IE: they don't filter very well .
I'll post up some of the filter paper shots that they used to see how well the pod filters filtered .
I could have taken a shot of the air box with the standard cover on , but then of course you would not have seen the APEXI filter !!
The whole idea was to see if I could mount the Apexi inside the standard airbox , just like the standard filter to avoid having to build fibreglass box's or doing headlight shroud cutting and such , the idea behind this mod was to increase the mileage a bit and to get away from the expense of replacing the filter every 3 mths at $35.00 a pop , some extra HP was just a bonus , no way was I going to run a filter , any filter that damages the Karmen Vortex [ an oil type filter ] or one that lets more crud in , I have been sucessful in this and that makes me very satisfied , I will be slightly modding the mount so that it sits more central but that's just detail , a little bit more angle both in and down .
I have seen the filtering tests , as far as I'm aware it's the only aftermarket filter that filters as well as the standard filter , all of the others are either oil impregnated type filters or they let more air in as well as lots of other stuff ... IE: they don't filter very well .
I'll post up some of the filter paper shots that they used to see how well the pod filters filtered .
I could have taken a shot of the air box with the standard cover on , but then of course you would not have seen the APEXI filter !!
The whole idea was to see if I could mount the Apexi inside the standard airbox , just like the standard filter to avoid having to build fibreglass box's or doing headlight shroud cutting and such , the idea behind this mod was to increase the mileage a bit and to get away from the expense of replacing the filter every 3 mths at $35.00 a pop , some extra HP was just a bonus , no way was I going to run a filter , any filter that damages the Karmen Vortex [ an oil type filter ] or one that lets more crud in , I have been sucessful in this and that makes me very satisfied , I will be slightly modding the mount so that it sits more central but that's just detail , a little bit more angle both in and down .
10-14-06, 09:37 PM
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Right guys , that IS NOT an oil impregnated filter , IT IS DRY , it is an Apexi filter , probably the only pod filter to run , as it not only flows better , BUT it also filters as well as a standard filter !!!!
I have seen the filtering tests , as far as I'm aware it's the only aftermarket filter that filters as well as the standard filter , all of the others are either oil impregnated type filters or they let more air in as well as lots of other stuff ... IE: they don't filter very well .
I'll post up some of the filter paper shots that they used to see how well the pod filters filtered .
I could have taken a shot of the air box with the standard cover on , but then of course you would not have seen the APEXI filter !!
The whole idea was to see if I could mount the Apexi inside the standard airbox , just like the standard filter to avoid having to build fibreglass box's or doing headlight shroud cutting and such , the idea behind this mod was to increase the mileage a bit and to get away from the expense of replacing the filter every 3 mths at $35.00 a pop , some extra HP was just a bonus , no way was I going to run a filter , any filter that damages the Karmen Vortex [ an oil type filter ] or one that lets more crud in , I have been sucessful in this and that makes me very satisfied , I will be slightly modding the mount so that it sits more central but that's just detail , a little bit more angle both in and down .
I have seen the filtering tests , as far as I'm aware it's the only aftermarket filter that filters as well as the standard filter , all of the others are either oil impregnated type filters or they let more air in as well as lots of other stuff ... IE: they don't filter very well .
I'll post up some of the filter paper shots that they used to see how well the pod filters filtered .
I could have taken a shot of the air box with the standard cover on , but then of course you would not have seen the APEXI filter !!
The whole idea was to see if I could mount the Apexi inside the standard airbox , just like the standard filter to avoid having to build fibreglass box's or doing headlight shroud cutting and such , the idea behind this mod was to increase the mileage a bit and to get away from the expense of replacing the filter every 3 mths at $35.00 a pop , some extra HP was just a bonus , no way was I going to run a filter , any filter that damages the Karmen Vortex [ an oil type filter ] or one that lets more crud in , I have been sucessful in this and that makes me very satisfied , I will be slightly modding the mount so that it sits more central but that's just detail , a little bit more angle both in and down .
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10-14-06, 10:06 PM
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Yes I will post up a pic of the mount itself , at the moment that's the only one I have and it's in the car , will be modding it slightly , adding about 3 degrees more to the angle cut in both planes , that means the filter will point down a little bit more and will also point towards the front of the car a bit more , already have orders for 3 more and when I do the final mod will be making a jig so that I can reproduce it more easily and exactly .
The first rectangle and round plates were hand fabricated , they will now be laser cut , will take some pics this comming week .
heres a shot of the filtering ability of the Apexi filter .
The first rectangle and round plates were hand fabricated , they will now be laser cut , will take some pics this comming week .
heres a shot of the filtering ability of the Apexi filter .
10-14-06, 10:36 PM
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just out of curiousity, is this the type of intake you used?
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UNIVERSAL JDM APEXI POWER INTAKE AIR FILTER
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UNIVERSAL JDM APEXI POWER INTAKE AIR FILTER
