No power gains at all. Just more noise.

If you want a power gain, although it will be small, fit a decent panel filter and a cold air feed having removed the resonator box.

 

okay well 4 now then i might drill some holes just to put my mates fiesta in its place lol.

to combat the heat soak would it be best to do it on the opposite side of the airbox to the engine

 

Yes.

But how is it going to put your mates Fiesta in its place.

Don't take this the wrong way, but all it does is make the car sound like it belongs to a chav.

 

Yes.

But how is it going to put your mates Fiesta in its place.

Don't take this the wrong way, but all it does is make the car sound like it belongs to a chav.

we he is a full blown chav and has spent abwt £200 on induction kits and exhausts and yet with no engine modding i can still beat his car and hopefully this will make mine sound a bit better to

don't worry im not a chav lol
i dont normally rev it high enough anyway

 

eww your friends with a chav... where is your self respect?

 

+1 :chav: :lol:

you'd be better off finding more ways to silently gain power.
everyone sees a nice sedate rover approaching, and then leaving them in it's wake.

more noise isn't always better. chavs only like noise because it stops them having to find something to talk about.

 

For the love of god please drill the holes before the air filter, and not after it :slap:

 

pull the pipe from the inside that will give more noise too

 

ive taken the restrictor pipe out already and noticed a slight diffference, and i would imagine that yeah it needs to be on the bottom part of the airbox so that the air still gets filtered.

ill star with a few hole sand then see what difference it makes.

and i not friends with the chav by choice. we were best mates since birth really lol and then a few years ago he went rong lol

 

i not friends with the chav by choice. we were best mates since birth really lol and then a few years ago he went rong lol

This actually made me laugh quite a bit...

 

same, quite a chuckle

 

I did mine as i wanted a bit of a noise when accelerating. Only problem i then found was the fuel econmy going down lol.

 

Silicone the Holes !!!!

 

or get a new one for about £2 at scrappy

 

Don't drill the box.

Do the dirty Airbox mod (removing the restriction pipe).

Remove the resonator box (under the battery tray), and the tube/air intake piece connected to it coming from the bumper (which also connects to your Airbox).

You can leave it like this for noticeable noise gain, and a tiny amount of increased throttle response (you won't notice it most likely). Or, you can then run some tubing from the now open hole in the bottom half of the Airbox (where the resonator connected), to your lower meshed grille, Voila. Cheap forced air induction.

 

Don't drill the box.

Do the dirty Airbox mod (removing the restriction pipe).

Remove the resonator box (under the battery tray), and the tube/air intake piece connected to it coming from the bumper (which also connects to your Airbox).

You can leave it like this for noticeable noise gain, and a tiny amount of increased throttle response (you won't notice it most likely). Or, you can then run some tubing from the now open hole in the bottom half of the Airbox (where the resonator connected), to your lower meshed grille, Voila. Cheap forced air induction.

Has anybody got this modification in picture form? So us knuckle draggers can have a pop at it too.:drunk4:

 

I thought drilling holes in your air box was only somthing chavs do to there 2-stroke mopeds? so they can think they are riding an R1? holes in your airbox isnt going to give you a ferrari lol

 

Erm, I think there is somewhere if you use the search function.

If not, i'll photo it tommorow when it's light. It's simple as though. Basically, the main box of your airbox, there is a "Tube" at the front of it with a couple forks on it, into the bumper and into a box underneath the battery tray. You can just pull this out and still keep the resonator box in place (the box under the battery tray, it's there to reduce intake noise), incase if you want to put it back in, in future. As with this tube removed the resonator box isn't in use.

Then just run tubing from the front of the airbox

 

nice one buddy

 

I have no idea as to why the "Dirty Airbox mod" was not tested at the MG Rover Merseyside RR day.

From reading and looking at air box comparisons of the TF160 air box and the original MGF design at http://www.mgf.ultimatemg.com/ you can see that MGR purposely added the additional pipe. Now obviously the airbox differences for the R200 arent such apparent in size but I cant help but agree that it is there as that is the area which has the greatest rate of flow. Why double the size of the TF airbox and filter panel just to hamper it with what some may just presume is a resonator of some kind?
We have at the office both styles of airboxs which I have actually looked at personally to see weather the article was plausible and tbh, its suggestions seem sound. Of course, on an R200, it may be different due to air box size, but I still think that any power gain would either be a placebo effect due to increase noise or just a freer flowing engine with a smoother power curve. Which really, I guess neither is a bad thing

 

Next time mate, next time !!!

 

 

 

I've always wondered whether a short length of flexible metal extractor fan tubing would do for a cheap induction system, similar to this stuff

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Hmmmmm

 

That's what I used in place of the resonator box+tubing, jubilee clipped it onto the end of the airbox and ran it into the front grill