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Re: air box/heat

To: DemonTSi@aol.com, dneuman@stars.sfsu.edu
Subject: Re: air box/heat
From: "sidney raper" <spl310@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 19:33:46 EDT
All,

I don't know about the price or dimensions, but TWM has just such an air box 
on their web site.  It is in black though.

Sid


>From: DemonTSi@aol.com
>Reply-To: DemonTSi@aol.com
>To: dneuman@stars.sfsu.edu
>CC: Phillip.Hall@msfc.nasa.gov, Datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: air box/heat
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:32:37 EDT
>
>In a message dated 07/14/2000 11:48:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>dneuman@stars.sfsu.edu writes:
>
> >   Do you have any hints on how I oculd do this. Vacuum forming
> >  plexiglass... I was mostly thinking about drawing up the designs and 
>having
> >  TAP plastics make me one out of thin acrylic or polycarbonate.....
>
>Ah, stan's right... i had forgotten how close the intake is to the exh. 
>using
>plexi wouldn't be the best idea cuz it will fog up and possibly even melt.
>And he's also right in that if you vacuum form over a foam surface, you'll
>end up with a piece that's got a bit of texture on the inside. so it comes
>down to whether you want to make a rounded single piece air box, or if 
>you're
>willing to live with a rectangular one with sides that are joined 
>together...
>(you could use bondo, filler, and gelcoat on your foam mold to give it that
>nice smooooth surface tho.. then your vacuu-formed piece will be smooth 
>too).
>here's a quick sketch I just threw up:
>http://members.xoom.com/stifus/airbox.gif
>Figure the base plate is made of a sheet of lexan, mounted behind the air
>horns... The plenum box is vacuum formed with a flat surface on the front.
>Then you weld a 3" pipe to a flat flange and that bolts to the plenum on 
>one
>end...and you run a filter or house coupling to an intake pipe on the
>other... attach the plenum to the base with either latch clamps or a bunch 
>of
>bolts and viola... fun fun fun
>
>Van

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