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So to confirm, remove the plastic engine cover on top of the supercharger and this will increase cooling and power?

What about the bonnet mat/inside cover?
Removing cover from Supercharger is increasing the cooling, so increasing the power. Also possible to remove cover from bonnet
 
Diameter and general design. The P8 intake looks like a much bigger tube. Mine looks more like the V6 diesel intake.


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If I tell you that diameter the same :) because Supercharger the same and MAF the same. What the huge difference in design sound me please.
 
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If I tell you that diameter the same :) because Supercharger the same and MAF the same. What the huge difference in design sound me please.
We’re getting nowhere. It looks very different.


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It’s widely known that after market air intakes often lose power through heatsoak , and also less efficient flow from bonnet intakes vs the car designer set up. Can also mess with MAFs I’d over oiled filters are used.
However the aim here is purely noise and willing to sacrifice the power....which the OP accepts.
The result is what he’s after, so with some heat protection added, it won’t be too bad, but will look and sound great!



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It’s widely known that after market air intakes often lose power through heatsoak , and also less efficient flow from bonnet intakes vs the car designer set up. Can also mess with MAFs I’d over oiled filters are used.
However the aim here is purely noise and willing to sacrifice the power....which the OP accepts.
The result is what he’s after, so with some heat protection added, it won’t be too bad, but will look and sound great!



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I didn’t say I was willing to sacrifice power, I just wasn’t looking for a power increase. I just think that once I’ve finished the setup, there won’t be any heatsoak to worry about. These filters are also not oiled so no issues there. The factory cold air feeds are still in place and once finished, they’ll be connected to the barrier in much the same way at the factory boxes.


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Chris, I saw somewhere a photo of the engine bay of the XE Project 8 "Ring Taxi" (but for the life of me I can't find it any more!), and they had done exactly as you have done - replaced the stock air boxes with cone filters. I think they also installed some (but not a lot) of deflector panels around the cones to reduce the pick up of hot engine air. If it's good enough for them then it should be OK for us!
If cone filters work on the Project 8 and on your XFR-S then they should work even better on the F-Type seeing as it's intake openings/snorkels are down low behind the grill and not up behind the lights. It seems the main problem with fitting cone filters to an otherwise stock intake system on the F-Type is to figure out a way to hold them firmly in place so they don't wobble around, which may mean that special brackets need to be fabricated.
There is a fair bit of talk on the Yank F-Type forum about the Eventuri after-market intake system. It also uses cone filters and it's a high quality product made from mainly carbon fibre. Problem is it is massively expensive and there are mixed reports on any increase in SC whine and/or performance, otherwise I would have bought and fitted one by now.
If your cone filters work as well as you suspect they will regards no loss of performance then I will think about going that route as well (especially seeing as the OEM air filters are due for replacement soon), I just need to solve the mounting issue.
 
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Cheers Kim, it was that photo P8 I was looking for but couldn’t find it from my quick search. It’s where I got the idea of the baffles from to reduce the heat soak, I just need to fabricate them.

I saw that Eventuri kit for the F-Type when I was planning this upgrade. It does come with the custom brackets to secure them. Maybe you can find someone with the kit who will help you copy them? Theo kit is a thing of beauty indeed. I may even go down the carbon fibre route as a mk2 upgrade. I know a few carbon fibre manufacturers.


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is it possible to relocate the air filters in front of the front wheels? its an old trick I learnt from my 214 turbo conversion and makes a massive difference as it removed the heat soak from the engine bay. acts like a makeshift air box with the wheel cowl, body, and the bumper protecting it from heat, the front grilles in the bumper either side can then be removed and replaced with mesh to allow a cold air feed...
 
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is it possible to relocate the air filters in front of the front wheels? its an old trick I learnt from my 214 turbo conversion and makes a massive difference as it removed the heat soak from the engine bay. acts like a makeshift air box with the wheel cowl, body, and the bumper protecting it from heat, the front grilles in the bumper either side can then be removed and replaced with mesh to allow a cold air feed...
I don’t think there is room. There is a cooler behind the front bumper on either side.


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I don’t think there is room. There is a cooler behind the front bumper on either side.


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Yep, the blokes on the US XF/XFR forum have looked into this and found there is too little room.
 
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Sure?




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So who made them? It’s not been out long enough.


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The picture was taken before they were available to the public.


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Ask owner of photo :) all, I repeat at last time, produced P8 has the air intake as on video, with standard MAF’, airboxes and filters.
 
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That's the pic of the special "Ring Taxi" P8 I was looking for!
From memory the intake modifications were not done by JLR or SVO but by some outside specialist contracted by the Ring Taxi people.
I also just noticed the wide gaping carbon fibre central snorkels which are directing air downwards somewhere, then probably up into the pod filters although I can't see where.
That whole modified intake must have cost a fortune!
 
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