i read on here somewhere recently that you could gut the airbox on our cars will it make any difference? i have an 88 2.8 rs it has the intake with the two filters does this make it kind of force the air in and is it even worth doing ??? pics would be apprecieated ps i have a bigger exhaust

 

Just cut out the bottom of the box and the water baffles. I have gutted mine and added scoops for a ram-air effect. I have had no problem with it and now my TB makes a loud whistle at half trottle.

 

will this cause any problems when driving in rain?

 

Nope. Not for me and it rains all the time here. I havn't had any problems with rain, then again I have the stock RS grille on the car so it might block alot of the water. I don't think that anyone has complained of rain, those who gutted the airbox that is.

 

I did it to mine and I definitly noticed a difference. Especially on the top end. Before it pulled thru 4500-4800rpm, now its more like 5200-5300rpm. The more I "get on it" the better it is now. Also, it just started raining here the past 2-3 weeks and I havent had a bit of trouble.

2.8RS- Thats a sweet scoop setup. How did you make that?

 

Old street sign and fivets pretty much. I didn't know this at that time but there is a company that makes a similar setup. I just got bored one day and said what the heck.

 

what company?

 

Yes, what company? I might be interested in a set if they are reasonable.

 

I don't know. I just saw it one day surfing the net. I made mine and I bet you can make your own for alot cheaper. The quality may not be a good but who's going to know?

 

Hawks has them.

http://www.hawksthirdgenparts.com/in...OD&ProdID=1051

I agree, you can probably make your own cheaper.

 

yeah, thats what im planning to do... but I was looking for the company that made it to pretty much copy their design. Anyways, thanks bru333, and 2.8 rs

 

I made mine for free acually.

 

See here's the thing with me. I have the TBI air cleaner (on top of a holley carb) going into duct work that leads to the top part of the tpi air assembly. (I don't have the bottom part) However I do have the delete piece from my v6 without the dual air filter setup I really thing i'm going to attach the tpi peice to the v6 and cut two holes to make room for the tpi peice. Then built duct work to "gut" the assembly. Keep in mind i'm not running the TPi filters just the air assembly... here's a pic of what i'm(kind of) going to be running (Thanks to a fellow TGO member)


Now that i've confused everyone thank you for reading my post.

 

I was looking about doing something similar to that on my TBI tell I swapped to TPI.