Hello everyone,
This is my first post since my membership back in October so bear with me.
I recently bought a used (only slightly) ST airbox from Ebay for £9.50 (thank you whoever decided to buy a Dreamscience Induction kit by the way).
Now I've seen how the ECU spacer works, obviously creating a larger gap between the ECU and the intake cowl increases airflow and therefore throttle response. The only thing I'm not so keen on it the fact that with the ECU spacer on, you can no longer put the cover back over the top of the ECU.
So my project is to keep the airbox looking stock on the outside and change how it works on the inside. So I've removed the intake cowl from inside the box and cut the tubing back a little towards the MAF housing.
So do you think this is going to work, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
You can see from the image below, that there is now a massive gap between the tube and where the ECU will sit. Is this going to keep the ECU cool enough?
I cut the tubing back to the height of the back of the airbox, so that the air wasn't hitting a flat surface.
How does the K&N Gen II keep the ECU cool?
You can see here that I've also removed 2 x 30mm tabs that were sticking up inside the airbox to increase air flow.
The intake cowl has a upper and lower clip inside the tubing itself, using a long thin flat-head screw driver you can pop it off.
My plan is to put a K&N panel filter into the airbox to aid airflow.
What do you think? Am I just wasting my time?
Cheers guys
This is my first post since my membership back in October so bear with me.
I recently bought a used (only slightly) ST airbox from Ebay for £9.50 (thank you whoever decided to buy a Dreamscience Induction kit by the way).
Now I've seen how the ECU spacer works, obviously creating a larger gap between the ECU and the intake cowl increases airflow and therefore throttle response. The only thing I'm not so keen on it the fact that with the ECU spacer on, you can no longer put the cover back over the top of the ECU.
So my project is to keep the airbox looking stock on the outside and change how it works on the inside. So I've removed the intake cowl from inside the box and cut the tubing back a little towards the MAF housing.
So do you think this is going to work, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
You can see from the image below, that there is now a massive gap between the tube and where the ECU will sit. Is this going to keep the ECU cool enough?
I cut the tubing back to the height of the back of the airbox, so that the air wasn't hitting a flat surface.
How does the K&N Gen II keep the ECU cool?

You can see here that I've also removed 2 x 30mm tabs that were sticking up inside the airbox to increase air flow.

The intake cowl has a upper and lower clip inside the tubing itself, using a long thin flat-head screw driver you can pop it off.

My plan is to put a K&N panel filter into the airbox to aid airflow.
What do you think? Am I just wasting my time?
Cheers guys