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Well after a recent split water pipe I have been repositioning things in the engine bay. In fact just looked at pictures taken when I first bought the van and the evolution over time.

First picture is the grubby engine when I bought it. The air filter was the original VR6 box with a hole cut in the side. A lot of crap would have been passing the filter without being filtered. The intake pipe was really long and the MAF too far away from the throttle body.


I bought a new stainless steel filter (good for 450bhp) and replaced the original box with that as well as moving the MAF.



I still wasn't happy with it. So stage 3. Moved the air filter into the steel enclosure that housed the euro gas bottle. Does not fit a uk bottle so not much use as a gas cylinder housing. Made up a new intake pipe - badly. It worked well but was ugly.



The Final stage is with a new intake pipe. Steel job with a take off for an oil catch tank. The fuel lines were replaced with steel lines and I have just moved the temperature sensor unit. A mate made up a bracket to mount it. Most of the pipes have been replaced with silicon pipes and everything is just a bit tidier.







It's a bit neater than a 2.1 Petrol isn't it?

but at least the wbx stays in the engine bay where it belongs

nice work, does it go any better/ cheaper ? No takers from the Samba , any nibbles ?

Hard to say. Had a few underlying problems so any improvement will be more from fixing things rather than the mods. Am hoping that mpg will improve slightly. Got to get the water bled through properly and get a few decent runs under my belt. The engine is running really well just now. Next project is replacing both batteries with elecsol carbon fibre batteries and wiring them in parallel. Will give me 200amp hours then.

Had a nibble but no bites. Don't mind. Love the van and don't really want to sell it.