Hi i have a 2000 mpi 1.3 felicia.

I have fitted an induction kit to it and noticed that the inlet on top of the throttle body is really narrow (the black plastic housing that sits on top of the throttle body). has anybody removed said item and fitted wider tubing so that more air is sucked in?

Also when should the valve clearances be checked?

Justin

filters are a waste of time anyway unless your going to get an exhaust to suit and remap

and do you mean where the induction kit fits on? if thats what you mean most induction kits come with adapters anyway to fit them to a smaller pipe, changing anything like that without having it setup after will probarbly make it run worse.

i may be wrong someone will be here with an answer at somepoint though (y)

Hi, What i intend to do is completely remove the black plastic housing and run some pipe direct of the throttle body.

Justin

TBH I see little gain from doing this (apart from the nice noise ).

As said above... you could do with a nice shiny new exhaust (de-cat etc) too to help air flow out the back and then look into things like a new cam and possibly an emerald ecu (if you can get it programmed by someone who knows what they're doing!) etc and that should get a decent amount of power.

But otherwise in the short term... you may notice a very slight increase as there will be less resistance with getting the air in and probably increased fuelling due to having no warm air recirculation pipe anymore.

Phil

Cheers for the replies chaps,Where is the best place to get a decat pipe from and does it have to be replaced before each mot?I have thought about removing the middle box to help the breathing, has anyone else done that?

Justin

i did that, it was actually slower untill i put the standard air filter back on!

air/ fuel mixture probarbly was thrown off

i have a straight through on my favorit (home-made at work no midbox, no cat, big bore backbox) and it pulls thats little bit stronger now than when i got it, but i tell you what your asking for a headache

Chris, you'd throw the mixture off putting a free-flow inlet on a carburetor. Since Justin has an EMS car, it should sort out the fuelling according to the airflow, as long as the extra airflow doesn't max out the injector(s).

odd, why didnt mine work then? :S

never mind, i can vouch for the fact that a straight through is far too loud and it gives you some more gogo!

odd, why didnt mine work then? :S

never mind, i can vouch for the fact that a straight through is far too loud and it gives you some more gogo!

whenever i mod anything to do with the engine air flow, i always disconnect the battery and let it run down. then when you reconnect it and let it do its set up cycle, it should run fine.

in that case i might slap the induction kit back on and give it a whizz, if its no difference its back off because the cars WAY too loud as it is

might check jorily actually for a standard exhaust again

i have put my normal airbox on today and taken the induction kit off as i intend to sell the felly, the throttle response isnt as good and the exeleration does seem a bit slower with out the induction kit on

well, im goin to give it a try and make some more noise

i decided against a new exhaust, the boot wont close on my car now after the last car ploughed into it

i checked that car over in the daylight and there wasnt much of a problem, moved the quarter panel 5mm forwards but everything was still ok, chassis in line

but nooo now it wants to play me up so im going to have a little fun before its weighed in

so is there no point getting a induction kit 4 a Felicia 98? cos i want 1! lol ....ny1 got any spare skoda Felicia alloys 4 sale??

Despite some of the claims you'll see in magazines, induction kits frankly don't do much other than reduce the silencing on the intake. The "10bhp" claims indicate either a very restrictive intake, or a 250+bhp turbo engine, or both.

an induction kit dosent do much

a free flow exhaust dont do much

a cam dont do much

a re-map dont do much

BUT add them all together and the sum is more then the total of the parts.

so there is a point to getting an induction kit. the point is you have to start somewhere.

Well said!

So basically unless you're prepared to do the other stuff too then there's not much point!

Phil

Why not just bung in a k&n standard filter? Slightly more air flow, completely standard set up, longer lasting than a standard cheapie filter.

Why not just bung in a k&n standard filter? Slightly more air flow, completely standard set up, longer lasting than a standard cheapie filter.

Have thought about this myself many a time.

If nothing else it would probably save a bit of cash in the future with it being re-useable and washable.

Do you clean these with some oil or something?

Phil

You use some sort of kit that's about £13 in Halfords probably cheaper on net or elsewhere. They might be multiple use kits but not sure.

ive just bought a pipercross viper induction kit off ebay for cheaps, and the guys sending me 2 leccy superchargers with it for free, so im gonna hook them up and see what difference they make. ill post back if anything interesting happens, although im not counting on a pc fan doing much lol

Save yourself time, money and weight, and don't bother to even fit the electric fan-chargers. To actually do anything worthwhile, you need the fan motor to be rated at something like 7.5kW (based on the sort of power typically absorbed by a belt-driven supercharger).