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Induction kit for a fiesta!?

Dear all,

I am not a boy racer....but.....was curious if I could fit a pipercross induction air filter to my rusty old mk2 1.1 fiesta. Many may say "whats the bloody point" but I just want to add a little bit of spice to such a dull car (I hope she can't read my thoughts, or she wont start! Again).

I suspect I can use some flexi pipe as they don't make a specific version to fit but I don't know what to do with the little pipe that connects to the current air box!? I am not sure what the pipe does but is has a little bit of oil in and seems to feed back into the carb through the top!

I once ran the engine without the air box during some carb maintainance and the revs seemed to increase without touching the throttle, is that the disconnected pipe or just having no box on?

Is this a complete waste of time or can anyone offer some advice.

Thank you in advance,

Ben

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Ben
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Complete waste of time on a carburettored car - unless you're going to invest in a carb. re-jet at the same time.

Reply to
SteveH

Oooo!! Didn't realise we had the technology for magnetic levitation of cars yet. Brilliant, I can do away with my tyres and suspension.

-- bucket

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bucket

bucket ( snipped-for-privacy@nospam.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Magnetic levitation has been commercially available for Mk2 Festers for more than a couple of decades, and for other cars for considerably longer.

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Adrian

I ment air induction not electromagnetic induction silly. However, that picture does look supprisingly like Fifi the Fiesta!

"Complete waste of time on a carburettored car - unless you're going to invest in a carb. re-jet at the same time."

Do you mean it wont work at all or just have the same effect as driving with a tail wind?

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Ben

Ben ( snipped-for-privacy@dunelm.org.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Not quite.

It'll make your car noisier, which often helps to convince chavs that it's quicker.

No, at best it'll do nothing. At worst it'll allow a bit more air into the engine, which the carb isn't set up to deal with, so the mixture will be leaner, which may burn a valve or hole a piston.

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Adrian

On a 1.1 I wouldn't bother.

Firstly, you need a bolt on K&N filter, not a stupid induction kit - they're for injection cars.

Complete waste of time without £60 worth of rolling road session. It'll run like a complete dog until you do as the jetting in the carb is wrong.

For the £100+ it's going to cost you, you'd be better getting a second hand 1.3 or 1.6 engine.

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Conor

When you put your foot down, it'll make a loud noise and accelerate SLOWER than before. When you take your foot off the accelerator, it'll stall.

You'll need to take it to a rolling road tuners to get the carb rejetted.

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Conor

I remember a MK2 2.0i Ashtray a bloke gave me. One day he was following me and asked what I'd done to make it so quick. "Easy", was the reply." I took off that K&N bollocks and put the standard filter back on."

OK, so my Capri has a K&N but then again it has a few other bits as well and it's all set up properly.

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Conor

Great advice, thanks. Always worth asking before wasting money! Think I will do the obvious and make do, maybe save the =A380 towards a new car.

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Ben

Alternatively, if it's in decent shape....

XR3i steel wheels, repainted satin black, slam it to the deck, remove bumpers.

Don't know what colour it is, but a satin black bonnet is optional.

YKIMS.

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SteveH

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