Cold Air intake install

[dennisS4]

I recently bought an ITG filter i want to put it in as my intake but would like to take out the airbox and make my own aluminum heat shield between it and the motor. Any ideas on what to do with all the sensors atop the current stock airbox?

I want to mount the filter straight onto the MAF. Is this going to be a PITA or not too bad because I can just put it inside instead the airbox than.

[S obsessed]

Those sensors are the ignition control modules and they need to have the aluminum heat sink attached to them. You could make a new heat sink or just cut the one out of your stock airbox. The stock airbox on these cars with the darrintake mod seems to be the way to go. No one has really seen any real advantage of doing what you are thinking.

[S4_NE]

I run stg 3 with a stock air box and stock air filter, it works great, I used to use an ITG filter it is nice in all but I got oil from it in my MAF. IMO just cut or drill you stock box and that is it or try teh Vast X-1 intake . Good luck

[Evilevo]

Those sensors are the ignition control modules and they need to have the aluminum heat sink attached to them. You could make a new heat sink or just cut the one out of your stock airbox. The stock airbox on these cars with the darrintake mod seems to be the way to go. No one has really seen any real advantage of doing what you are thinking.

Why do they need to have the Aluminium heat sink?

[S obsessed]

Why do they need to have the Aluminium heat sink?

they get warm. It is common for ignition control modules to be on some sort of a heat sink. Not using heat sink may never pose a problem but it is not a bad idea.

[Klum00]

they get warm. It is common for ignition control modules to be on some sort of a heat sink. Not using heat sink may never pose a problem but it is not a bad idea.

looks like you found your misfire problem adam...

[MacDaddy]

I would stay away from any of those cotton gauze and foam filters. they don't trap the fine dust coming into an engine and that dust rounds the edges of the turbines on the turbos. that will result in less boost (or in our case, the turbo working harder to produce the same boost and sooner failure).

stick with a high quality paper filter, eg. not fram.

[dennisS4]

I would stay away from any of those cotton gauze and foam filters. they don't trap the fine dust coming into an engine and that dust rounds the edges of the turbines on the turbos. that will result in less boost (or in our case, the turbo working harder to produce the same boost and sooner failure).

stick with a high quality paper filter, eg. not fram.

K&N? i thought paper wasn't as good because it absorbs moisture and such. What other brands make good quality filters if i should use the ITG?

[S4 in_lowplaces]

lots of people have open element filter. Lots of stage 3 guys do, the ones that homebrew they're car.

I've used K&N for years and never had a problem. I threw it out and just got the paper filter. its up to you. as long as you have filtered air coming in your good. goodluck

[AudiSportB5S4]

i cut the entire bottom of my RS4 Intake apart to get more air.... should i have done that being that it was so expensive? probably not LOL. but it makes a shitload of sound you can usually only hear it with either the windows down or if you're in an enclosed area like a parking garage..

[SLC_S4]

I'm stage 3 and use a drop in ITG panel filter with a stock RS4 airbox. I've never had problems with oil on the MAF sensor or any problems with my turbos. I clean it just about every oil change. You really just need to be sure you don't over oil the filter or use it dry. Also be sure to use a high quality filter oil as well and you should avoid having problems.

[dennisS4]

is there a diy for installing it inside the airbox?

[MacDaddy]

K&N? i thought paper wasn't as good because it absorbs moisture and such. What other brands make good quality filters if i should use the ITG?

its only going to absorb moisture if you do that dairintake mod and drive trough a puddle or very rainy weather If you live in a place like i do where it rains allot I would leave the airbox stock.

K&N will tell you their filters are fine because they don't want to scare people off if they know it will make your turbo look like its sandblasted. I've seen it happen to lots of 6.0 ford diesels (almost every truck with a K&N or similar). I realize a diesel dosn't have a throttle body and a 6.0 engine will move more air than a 2.7L, but the fact of the matter is it will still happen it may just take a little bit longer on our engines than it does on the ford diesel.

If you really want to run a high flow filter, I would use it on the track only, for DD i would use a paper.

[dennisS4]

its only going to absorb moisture if you do that dairintake mod and drive trough a puddle or very rainy weather If you live in a place like i do where it rains allot I would leave the airbox stock.

K&N will tell you their filters are fine because they don't want to scare people off if they know it will make your turbo look like its sandblasted. I've seen it happen to lots of 6.0 ford diesels (almost every truck with a K&N or similar). I realize a diesel dosn't have a throttle body and a 6.0 engine will move more air than a 2.7L, but the fact of the matter is it will still happen it may just take a little bit longer on our engines than it does on the ford diesel.

If you really want to run a high flow filter, I would use it on the track only, for DD i would use a paper.

We'll I already have the darintake mod done. I did it by cutting 3-2" holes and dropping sink strainers in and bolting them on. These screens should keep most contaminates out. These screens are not going to keep the water out though.

[dennisS4]

Our cars come equipped with a K&N panel filter from the factory. I'm not sure if this is the one your referring to or just K&N is general??

[MacDaddy]

Our cars come equipped with a K&N panel filter from the factory. I'm not sure if this is the one your referring to or just K&N is general??

you sure? I've never heard of that, and its strange they wouldn't put a sticker on the airbox saying it has a re-usable filter.

[goohead]

All vw and audi come with a non reusable paper filter, there is no manufacure of cars that I know of that came a oil type filter element.

Maybe when you bought it someone had already switched the filter.

I know this for a fact

[goohead]

For a good high flow paper use an aem dryflo, those are very good filters and you don't have to sacrifice the filtering capacity to get more airflow. And they are reusable

[KompMan420]

I'm stage 3 with Darintake mod. I had the K&N drop-in filter at first. Tested the flow of that setup against my now stock paper filter showed ZERO gain from MAF readings. Save your money.

[00s4slvr]

I'm stage 3 with Darintake mod. I had the K&N drop-in filter at first. Tested the flow of that setup against my now stock paper filter showed ZERO gain from MAF readings. Save your money.

I second that, the stock airbox is fine witht the oem filter.