John, sorry to quote you here but you seem to have some v. relevant experience / comment...

in this thread, when you say

'Resonator removal has cause pitted compressor wheels and at least one complete failure from water ingress, even with a non-paper panel filter. In addition, some have observed dangerous MAF misreads when going through puddles.'

Are you referring to 99/00s or would 98's be included here ?

Any comment on my fresh air thread


Many thanks,

Mark

 

Could all apply to the 98 AFAIK. A wet MAF sensor hot film or hot wire will not read correctly.

I use an APS induction kit in the wing, and I am a little paranoid about it ingesting water, but it was all I could sensibly do with my FMIC.

 

Thanks John.

I'm still using the TMIC. Also, I can understand your concerns about water...

How much of a flow problem is the resonator ? I've heard its fairly bad news. I could remove it and construct a scoop to pick up at the original position at the top of the bonnet, maybe with an S bend to try to eliminate water ?

Any thoughts, or should I just LEAVE IT ALONE ?

Mark

 

There are people running over 300 BHP with the original inlet tract all the way to the turbo. If you are going for big power then get rid, otherwise, I would (and did) leave it alone until I got a FMIC.

 

Mark, i was bothered about the water thing when i fitted my cold air feed, and the best i could think of was when i put the air feed pipe in, i ran it in like a upside down question mark (?) so that i could make it as hard as possible for any water to get all the way up to my induction cone. does that make sense? hope so

p.s. also cut a little hole at the lowest point of the feed pipe for any water to run out of it

Ab

 

Good Thinking (The hole part!)

As I'm going to be running UNDER 300 hp (Certainly for a while )

I'll leave it be !

I'm sure I'll be busy enough fitting boost gauge / afr / knock / dawes for now

Cheers for your time,

Mark