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Old Apr 8, 2007 | 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Whippled 496


Hey, how about a couple tight shots of the inside of your engine bay to get some brainstorming going? I tried your "pictures" link buts its not working for me.
That link doesnt work? hmm let me see

Edit: I dont really have any good pictures on there showing how the intake is setup, let me see what I can find.
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Old Apr 8, 2007 | 10:21 AM
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Old Apr 8, 2007 | 10:23 AM
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At first glance there appears to be plenty of room, however when I put the volant in place and then added the MAF in there isnt much room to get to the TB. The angle of the dangle just isnt right, it wont line up using any comination of couplers etc. that I have. I might have to get a 4" silcone 90 to make it work. I am going to be removing the MAF here soon but for the time being I am going to leave it in. I am thinking I may move the MAF closer to the TB, I am not real crazy about it being right after that 75 degree elbow that is there now.
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Old May 1, 2007 | 11:45 AM
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I have a volant with the ram air tube that I modified to work with my whipple. Here is a picture. I had to do some modifications to the neck of the box & to the MAF to make it fit.

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Old May 1, 2007 | 01:51 PM
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id love to see some more pics of how you did that.
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Old May 1, 2007 | 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by 2ksleeper
I have a volant with the ram air tube that I modified to work with my whipple. Here is a picture. I had to do some modifications to the neck of the box & to the MAF to make it fit.

You have a different inlet tube becuase of the cable throttle body, my TB faces forward where yours faces the pass. fender. It looks good man, I have the same box... I found that if I had the newer style box it would work due to the angle of the outlet of the box.. Oh well, Maf is coming off this week or next so it should work then..
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Old May 2, 2007 | 06:41 AM
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03sierraslt,
I would think it would be easier to make a volant fit your set-up with the drive by wire TB because you can get adjustment in two planes with mine the center-center distance from TB to MAF had to be spot-on to make it work. Also if Volant changed the design of the Inlet adapter I bet you can call them and buy just that to adapt to your old box.

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I wish I took some pictures when I installed the box but I didn't and it is such a pain in the @ss to get in & out I will only disassemble it if I have to. But I can give you what I did to make it fit. First, using a drimmel tool, I cut just enough off of the inlet tube to the volant to get the MAF perpindicular to the ground instead of slanting toward the ground. Then I had to sand down the outside the the inlet tube to get the od smaller. Now the rubber sleeve off of the MAF would fit but the MAF wouldn't fit snug into the rubber sleeve so I took as small piece of rubber about 1/8" thk. X 1/2" wide & used it to tighten up the gap between the MAF & the rubber sleeve. Finally I slotted the base mounting holes in the volant box to give me some wiggle room.
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