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Horsepower gain with Jason Whipple's air box mod

From gti-vr6-owner@dev.tivoli Wed Apr 22 19:04 CDT 1998
From: jawkjn@cstone (Jason Whipple)
To: Jim Bazzano <Jim_Bazzano@zd>
Subject: Re: [gti-vr6] One more on airbox!!
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 19:52:44 -0400
 
At 01:58 PM 4/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>here is the URL for Jason Whipple's air box mods .....  What he did is use
>his skills to help fix 2 known limitations if the regular modded airbox.
>1) he enlarged the opening of the airbox to fix the problem of the smallish
>"L" shaped cold air inlet that goes from the fender to the box.  And 2) he
>added a heat shield that would prevent hot engine bay air from entering the
>newly enlarged airbox inlet.   the result is a less restrictive (better
>throttle response) cold air source, which jason claims could be good for a
>few HP ? ( I think I am right on that , Jayson?)
>


      The following link is now broken! aqn. 3/24/99

>http://www.phoenix.net/~evansfam/gti/airbox.htm
>

 This mod netted 4hp at the wheels over a de-coned, screened and K&N equiped
box on a Dynojet chassis dyno. Just the facts and nuthin but the facts.



Jason Whipple
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