k & n induction

polo_mf · Post by **polo_mf** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:44 pm

elo all

got a 1.0L 6N and wanna make it look/sound/drive better for smalll money.

the k & n in duction kit for it is less than Â£100. do they make much difference???? wat they look like when theyre on????
any help on this or any other tips for cheap and easy but effective mods grateful!!!

cheers guys & gals

BalinJu · Post by **BalinJu** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 1:44 pm

I've got one and what I can say is this:

Do not expect your power to increase, ok maybe you will get some better high end power (at high revs), but not by a lot. What I noticed with the k&n 57i mostly is the responce. Its improved quite a lot, touch the accelarator pedal, and you get the power on much more immediate than with the normal filter

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:35 pm

BalinJu wrote:I've got one and what I can say is this:

Do not expect your power to increase, ok maybe you will get some better high end power (at high revs), but not by a lot. What I noticed with the k&n 57i mostly is the responce. Its improved quite a lot, touch the accelarator pedal, and you get the power on much more immediate than with the normal filter

how does it sound, and what has the MPG been? increased?

dubmk4 · Post by **dubmk4** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:53 pm

my mpg hasnt gone up.
car sounds more throttley (if thats a word) when accelerating kinda like a fake turbo.good if your running along in 3rd at 30ish then boot it.

other than that slightly better throttle response and nice little toy in your engine bay.im also running 2 cold air feeds on mine.
my mate reckoned it sounded quite good too.

polo_mf · Post by **polo_mf** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:55 pm

wat does it look like in your engine bay????
how much u pay for it and where bouts u get it from??
cheers

dubmk4 · Post by **dubmk4** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:15 pm

cant remember where i got mine from just go on google and dont pay more than Â£60 . sits where the standard crappy airbox normally is then there is one air feed down the left side as you look in that goes down to the lower grill in the bumper and another on the right hand side as you look in going to a small space behind the front which i found . looks abit odd at mo as one pipe is standard black k&n thing and the other was sum shiny aluminuim/foil type thing.

BalinJu · Post by **BalinJu** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:58 pm

This is how mine looks like.

Regards noise, I cannot really tell because when I fitted the induction kit, I already had a back box, and probably the noise got damped by the noise of the back box

Regards mpg, I think it improved but by a very small margin, say about with 13L of fuel, instead of 180km I do 184km or even less.

When you accelarate hard, it sounds like a pppppffffffftttttt. Not a dumpvalve like sound, but more like air is being sucked in brutally (for a very short time)

polo_mf · Post by **polo_mf** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:26 pm

cheers for the pic

think i mite get one!! just need to get used to the look of it.. looks like a gaping space where the air filter box was!!

dubmk4 · Post by **dubmk4** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:25 pm

balinju,
see you have taken out the warm air hose.but left the black crappy thing that sits near the wing.
on my car i left the warm air hose on connected to this and ran the clip thing that was under the old airbox to it still.

What did you do with the clip thing on your car just disconnect it alll then seal up any holes?

kona87 · Post by **kona87** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:12 pm

hi there just wondered if you have got an induction kit yet? am lookin at getting one for my m4 1.4 8v just unsure of what to get?!

spankone · Post by **spankone** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:47 pm

i wouldnt bother i would just mod the air box and run a new air or get a bmc style intake

James0121 · Post by **James0121** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:19 pm

hey up

Here is a link to the bmc page

http://www.bmcairfilter.com/VisModel.asp

this link should show one fitted on a 1L polo

http://www.bmcairfilters.com/cgi-bin/Im ... lo_1.1.JPG

The one for the 1.4 8v is about Â£126

James

spankone · Post by **spankone** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:23 pm

i think k&n are way over rated tbh bmc may be more but loads better....

James0121 · Post by **James0121** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:30 pm

they look as if they have a slightly better design im liking it, now where am i going to find the Â£126 hmmm gunna have to think bout it

BalinJu · Post by **BalinJu** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:59 pm

dubmk4 wrote:balinju,
see you have taken out the warm air hose.but left the black crappy thing that sits near the wing.
on my car i left the warm air hose on connected to this and ran the clip thing that was under the old airbox to it still.

What did you do with the clip thing on your car just disconnect it alll then seal up any holes?

the black crappy thing on the left near the wing is still there because it was not disconneted completly yet

I removed the warm air hose completly because cold air is better for the car then warm air, and in my country, we never get temperatures below 5degrees so it is hardly for any use

The clip thing that you are refering to is the oil brether?