Gazza's cold air/ cowl inducted intake - photos

Post by **zorruno** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:46 am

Gazza has done some work on making a cowl induction CAI (fabricated
himself), I thought it was pretty impressive. Hopefully he won't mind
me sharing the pics...

http://www.mx5club.org.nz/downloads/gazza_cai_1.jpg
http://www.mx5club.org.nz/downloads/gazza_cai_2.jpg

cheers
zorruno

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:15 pm

Way cool, nice work.
Biff

Colin Francis · Post by **Colin Francis** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:40 pm

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:15:11 +1200, you wrote:

Way cool, nice work.
Biff

A class conversion.

Janet & Jeff Curtin · Post by **Janet & Jeff Curtin** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:13 pm

Thats a work of art really nice Gazza , I hope you are thinking of making
these up for sale if so I would like to place my order immeadiatly.

Janet&Jeff

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Subject: Gazza's cold air/ cowl inducted intake - photos
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:46:01 +1200

Gazza has done some work on making a cowl induction CAI (fabricated
himself), I thought it was pretty impressive. Hopefully he won't mind me
sharing the pics...

http://www.mx5club.org.nz/downloads/gazza_cai_1.jpg
http://www.mx5club.org.nz/downloads/gazza_cai_2.jpg

cheers
zorruno

poison · Post by **poison** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:56 pm

No worries there zorruno,

And thanks for the feedback (embarrassed). I inherited a lathe from my father
(a tool maker) as he passed away last year, I just finished night school on
how to use it and I wanted to make something I felt my dad would have been
proud of and the air intake was all I could think of to make. Not hard at all,
just a lot of time as the aluminium adaptor part (between the blue pod filter
and the aluminium tube) had to be made form a piece of 110mm solid bar, it
took hours to remove all the centre and made a whole clean sack of swarf. The
rest was not so hard as I based my idea on David M's intake system. And Glenns
shiny fuel cap gave me the inspiration to polish the aluminium. Getting the
whole thing aligned and bracketed was the trickiest part (it's amazing how
many times you can bend a simple bracket the wrong way).

The result... my girlfriend's comments sum it all up..."OOH Gary, it's too
noisy"... Translated into man think "Ohhh Brilliant that sounds great..." I
must admit I was a little shocked as to how loud the induction sound is, but
only during acceleration (that's the 90% driving time between the 10%
braking). I honestly can't be sure if it really goes any faster but the sound
sure makes it seem faster

The cost for anyone keen, pod filter and adaptor about $70-$80, aluminium $25,
clips and misc fittings about $25. I had the blue silicon hose already. So all
up maybe $130 plus a fair bit of time. Way cheaper than the kit and much more
fun.

Cheers

Gazza
"PO1SON"