I've had an idea - a dangerous state of affairs I know but that's how it is when you spend a couple of days in "The Shed"
So question is: are there likely to be any diabolical consequences if I were to ditch the complete air box and replace it with 2 individual foam type air filters mounted directly onto the throttle bodies?
Basically where the two rags are stuffed into the throttle boday intakes in the pic below would go something like this:
Of course I would have to find a solution for filtering the stepper motor air intake (not hard) and the oil collector box drain (also not hard), and given that I am intalling Todd's full monty fueling PCV fix the fuelling should be taken care off.
BTW for those what might be wondering this is what a B11 looks like after two days of work doing a PCV / ECU swap / Stepper bypass surgery / Air box lid change / Inner spark replacement and a heap of general dicking about.
To explain, the real idea involves the fuel range on the Stelvio - seems to me that the space taken up by the monstrous air box is ideal for an additional fuel tank.... but that's a story for later on.
So question is: are there likely to be any diabolical consequences if I were to ditch the complete air box and replace it with 2 individual foam type air filters mounted directly onto the throttle bodies?
Basically where the two rags are stuffed into the throttle boday intakes in the pic below would go something like this:
Of course I would have to find a solution for filtering the stepper motor air intake (not hard) and the oil collector box drain (also not hard), and given that I am intalling Todd's full monty fueling PCV fix the fuelling should be taken care off.
BTW for those what might be wondering this is what a B11 looks like after two days of work doing a PCV / ECU swap / Stepper bypass surgery / Air box lid change / Inner spark replacement and a heap of general dicking about.
To explain, the real idea involves the fuel range on the Stelvio - seems to me that the space taken up by the monstrous air box is ideal for an additional fuel tank.... but that's a story for later on.