Walkinshaw air dam

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Hey has anyone installed or made their own air dam. For those who dont know what it is. It's basically a small scoop that is mounted to the front bar on the passanger side. The theory behind it is to force extra cold air up to the air box.

For those who have installed it, has it improved much for you.

Also earlier today I saw a guy that removed his passenger side fog light and had a pod filter that went down right behind it. I thought that was pretty clever idea too.

 

[Homer's HSV]

I have put one on it should come with the kit best thing about it that when your traveling your getting air directed to the pod filter better than behind the light.
The only issue with the pod filter down where the fog light is make sure you dont hit a big puddle like my mate did :bomb:

 

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Im thinking about making my own air dam out of some metal, should work just as good.

Geez that would cause a lot of damage ey. How much did he have to pay for repairs ?

 

[Homer's HSV]

The plastic one is just as good make sure you dont go to far down or will scrape like crazy the scoop that comes with the kit is just clearing things now and my car is not lowered so keep that in the back of your mind.
Its a guy a work with i think cost about 2K to fix but was claimed through the flood we had in Melbourne a while back so lucky boy

 

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Yeah I plan to set it back abit so should scrape to much unless I scrape my front guard which I don't plan on doing.

Oh yeah very lucky ey, did he move it after that ?

 

[Homer's HSV]

Yea he did he chopped off the intake pipe (since it is plastic) a bit higher up i think he was saying 30cm since it was fairly low before. If you do a mod on your let me know how you go.
Cheers Eddie

 

[Decicrate]

I know this is the VE section and this setup was for a VS, just giving some ideas.
I made one for my VS many years ago, worked very well, dropped intake temps considerably and also helped force a bit more air into the system. Unfortunately when I updated my sway bar the intake did not fit any more.
The air intake area is 44cm x 3.5cm =154CM2

 

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Yea he did he chopped off the intake pipe (since it is plastic) a bit higher up i think he was saying 30cm since it was fairly low before. If you do a mod on your let me know how you go.
Cheers Eddie

Thanks for this mate, ill let you know when i do it.

I know this is the VE section and this setup was for a VS, just giving some ideas.
I made one for my VS many years ago, worked very well, dropped intake temps considerably and also helped force a bit more air into the system. Unfortunately when I updated my sway bar the intake did not fit any more.
The air intake area is 44cm x 3.5cm =154CM2

Thats awesome mate took me awhile to figure out what i was looking at but thats great. Except like what was said above with puddles.

 

[Decicrate]

I drove this setup many times through some pretty big rain storms and following trucks and so forth on the highway in heavy rain conditions and never had an issue with water.

At the back of the air dam, there is a small hole to let any water drain. The way the feed came into the air box meant that any water that did get that high would hit the far side of the box and then just exit through the drain hole that I had in the box. With a four inch feed from the dam to the box, the suction would never be high enough to pull the water through. In saying that I would not drive through water that would cover the intake.

The most common thing to find in the air box was cigarette buts. Every time I would go to clean the air filter there would be at least one butt in there.

 

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That’s good seeing as it’s such a big air dam, does the air lead straight to the air box or just near it, I can’t quite tell.

That’s good then, but that’s pretty disgusting about the butts.

Cheers for the information mate