Replacement Air filter

I managed to pick up a K&N Apollo A/filter [the real McCoy - not a Asian knock-off] for about 70 pounds here! Dead chuffed and it will be the bees knees when fitted.

I'm still trying to work how to fit an extended air feed behind the LH guard. I see that 70 mm hole in the guard. If I use that route there's precious little room to run the pipe. There is a guard support bracket with maybe 50mm gap at the most and the access 'hatch' for the indicator bulb.

Hmm, any ideas please?

As an after thought I could abandon that idea altogether and just mount it close to the Throttle housing with a short pick up point where the tool kit would go. Or is that just going to pick up warm engine bay air

wow what a picture of the plane ,people usually take the wing off to make the connections that what put me off putting one on. sorry I can not help any more

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htr said:

I managed to pick up a K&N Apollo A/filter [the real McCoy - not a Asian knock-off] for about 70 pounds here! Dead chuffed and it will be the bees knees when fitted.

I'm still trying to work how to fit an extended air feed behind the LH guard. I see that 70 mm hole in the guard. If I use that route there's precious little room to run the pipe. There is a guard support bracket with maybe 50mm gap at the most and the access 'hatch' for the indicator bulb.

Hmm, any ideas please?

As an after thought I could abandon that idea altogether and just mount it close to the Throttle housing with a short pick up point where the tool kit would go. Or is that just going to pick up warm engine bay air

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You can mount your Apollo in the engine bay above the gearbox. There is loads of room. Then extend it's pick up pipe to the hole in the inner wing. This will allow it to draw cold air from outside the engine bay.
You can get silicone pipes in various sizes, angles and colours to make up the connections.

I'm working on my Apollo induction at the moment. I am missing a vital pipe to join to my throttle body though. This has delayed installation. I plan to mount my Apollo inside the inner wing so that it pokes through the 70mm hole. I am using 68mm down pipe and two 92.5° elbows to take the air from the Apollo to the special pipe on throttle body. I plan to use foiled insulation on the pipes to keep induction temperature as low as possible.

I wondered about that Nodge.

Was thinking I might need to make a new pipe, maybe using the throttle-body end of the old one and connecting that somehow to the K&N supplied one.

Will watch this thread with interest...

bukko said:

I wondered about that Nodge.

Was thinking I might need to make a new pipe, maybe using the throttle-body end of the old one and connecting that somehow to the K&N supplied one.

Will watch this thread with interest...

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The standard LR V6 pipe turns up to sharply. I'm going to use the intake pipe from a ZS180. This is the correct fitting onto the TB with out resorting to using an extra small filter for the idle air feed. All I need is the ZS pipe. I've found one, but it's in Penzance and I don't have the time to pop down there at the moment.
I'll post the installation, once I'm done. This cold air intake will make the V6 more sprightly, even more so in the summer. Last week I measured intake temps of 62°C this will limit power massively.
Power is already limited by the restrictive filter system, especially where the intake pipe is shrunk around the washer bottle filler. At this point, the pipe is smaller than the throttle butterfly!!