Any one use the abd big bore intake?

[MKIGTITDI]

Im buying the abd big bore intake and wondering how people are setting theirs up. Do you still go through the air box or just run a cone filter on it?

[beastyben1]

i believe i've seen the ABD big bore run to the air box just like stock in pictures on this website.

i think the only way we could use a cone filter is with lots of modification.

i'm still interested in if any performance is to be gained...

[MKIGTITDI]

I talked to a sales rep at abd and he said that it needed to be routed through the airbox but there is gains to running it.

[germanglinorcal]

heres mine installed

[MKIGTITDI]

Thanks for the pics! Do you notice any gains by running the intake?

[germanglinorcal]

to many unseen mods other than that to notice.. ie; cams,fuel enrichment, jamex airbox, a/c delete, few others....

[MKIGTITDI]

I dont have pics of mine yet but Ive got a custom 3" intake to my airbox. A TT 288* cam an A2 tb, A2 exhaust mani, Ported and polished intake manifold, msd blaster 2 coil.

[chois]

Quote, originally posted by MKIGTITDI »

Thanks for the pics! Do you notice any gains by running the intake?

I did some back to back dyno testing with a 3" tube and the stock tube on my 8v race car.

No gain in hp, actually measured a slight loss, but probably just normal run to run variation.

Part throttle to WOT response is crisper with the big tube though.

[MKIGTITDI]

Just did a back to back pull from 30-70mph with my big bore intake a new coil and news plugs and my time went from 9.22 to 7.96 with just those changes.


Modified by MKIGTITDI at 10:09 PM 10-31-2009

[MKIGTITDI]

Modified by MKIGTITDI at 4:23 AM 11-1-2009

[tamartin71]

Impressive. What coil and what plugs did you run?

[MKIGTITDI]

Quote, originally posted by tamartin71 »

Impressive. What coil and what plugs did you run?

I went from the worn out original coil to a new msd blaster 2 coil and im running ngk iridium plugs that i overgapped to .035. I also modded a 3" intake to my airbox. You can see my crappy epoxy job of molding it to it. Im going to pull it out one of these days and clean it up and make it look better.


Modified by MKIGTITDI at 8:47 AM 11-2-2009

[MKIGTITDI]

heres the stock to big bore comparison.

[tamartin71]

Thanks for the info I ordered the abd. They said it is out of stock for 4 weeks! I will be ready when arrives. thanks again.

[tamartin71]

Did you do anything to the airbox? i.e. 3" opening or any drilling to open up?

[germanglinorcal]

I replaced the bottom half of the airbox with a jamex box..

[MKIGTITDI]

Quote, originally posted by tamartin71 »

Did you do anything to the airbox? i.e. 3" opening or any drilling to open up?

I did my own custom cut and mold job.

[tamartin71]

Excellent I will look forward to the results! Thanks again great post.

[MKIGTITDI]

Youll notice the throttle response with the inlet to the airbox as well. I have maybe $10 into my new inlet between the 3" 90* elbow from lowes and the epoxy to attach it to the airbox.

[ny_fam]

This is a set of upgrades I'd like to back to back dyno test.
1) small TB to large TB
2) small TB with stock air tube, to ABD type
3) small TB with bast air tube from above tests stock lower air box to modded lower airbox, or even that audi aluminum lower box.

Each are said to make a difference, but I'm interested in knowing where in the power and how much.

[MKIGTITDI]

Id do the stock air tube to abd but i just tossed the stock into the dump on saturday.

[bubba_vw]

all u gain with the ABD is better throttle reponse

[MKIGTITDI]

Like I said before with this change to the abd tube I made additional changes along with it and im not claiming a big power increase but with the changes i did make it was noticeable and im sure there were some gains in torque and maybe a little hp but the gains were nominal.

[JimLill]

sorry, no dyno #

[theshanks]

Thats a pretty trick catch can in the last pic! Took me a min to sort out what it was.