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View Poll Results: Which car should we design our first cold air intakes for? | |||
BG Astina | 9 | 25.00% | |
BA Astina | 18 | 50.00% | |
BJ Astina | 9 | 25.00% | |
BK/Mazda 3 | 0 | 0% | |
Voters: 36. You may not vote on this poll |
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23-05-2006, 10:06 AM | #1 |
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Ok guys and girls,
There has been some talk in other threads about a cold air intake we are developing. I'm here to tell you its true, we are working on cold air systems for astinas. They will be produced locally here in Brisbane, made out of aluminiumiumium, include a K&N filter, hose clamps etc. Designs will be based on tried and true designs, with some of our own inovations thrown into the mix. Purpose of this thread, is to guage interest in various models of cars that we can build them for. Right now, for sanity's sake, we're going to limit it to the BG, BA and BJ astina's - and wont be including things like V6 hardtops and what not. Eventually we'll go into these in a big way, but we feel the majority of interest will come from the more common cars. So please, vote on the poll, let us know which car we should make these for first. please only vote if you are genuinely interested in purchasing one off of us! I cannot stress this enough. Last thing we want is to go into a limited production run and not be able to sell the things. You are looking at between $300 and $400 a pop as a rough ballpark for one of these, will be polished aluminium and then clearcoated for protection. Also looking into some powdercoating options. UPDATE: see http://astinagt.com/forums/showthread.php?p=105117for tentative pricing on both the BA & BJ cold air intakes! Last edited by LordWorm; 21-06-2006 at 01:33 PM. |
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23-05-2006, 10:42 AM | #2 |
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Sounds great! mines a ba but also a v6 hardtop!
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23-05-2006, 11:17 AM | #3 | |
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stay tuned tho =) and if you are really desperate for one we can always look at a completely custom setup. |
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23-05-2006, 01:26 PM | #4 |
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Sorry grand high worm, voted before i read the post have a ba hardtop v6. Hope i don't screw up your count.
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23-05-2006, 01:28 PM | #5 |
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wow.. $300-400...!
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23-05-2006, 01:50 PM | #6 |
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wow as in good or bad? or as in greg might as well have written "between $0 and $10m"
to be honest it'll be somewhere around $380-390 at the moment, but we'll try our hardest to get that down to the lowest possible price. |
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but yes, what twiggy said *nod* |
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23-05-2006, 07:31 PM | #8 |
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yeah i might be up for one, depending on final price and design.
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23-05-2006, 07:54 PM | #10 |
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yeah, thats alright, my only issue would be with it going too deep into the passenger side "hole" cos the possibilty of accidental water ingestion is a "slight" concern to me...I know the chances are remote, but it has happened.
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23-05-2006, 08:30 PM | #11 |
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Vote BJ people!!!
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I've heard of it, but never seen documented cases of it happening..... Twiggy will no doubt clarify this - but either way, cant see it being a HUGE issue...the waters gotta get through the filter, get sucked up by a reasonably long pipe..... could happen i guess....but rediculously unlikely. Also, its one of those things... cold air NEEDS to be drawn in from outside the engine bay, and not everyone has fancy bonnet scoops. Chipa: yes, vote BJs! :P i want one of these intakes too remember :P I cant have one quickly unless its commercially viable to make one :P hahahah |
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23-05-2006, 08:54 PM | #13 |
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just dont go driving through water! easy fix
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23-05-2006, 08:56 PM | #14 |
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yeah, its only likely to happen going through some standing deep water which is sometimes hard to spot in heavy rain, and i am prepared to live with the risk, but i just wanted to see how well the positioning minimised the chances...BTW, i believe it happened to a guy who used to be on this forum in an sp20 who had a k&n typhoon, result = bent rods.
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23-05-2006, 08:59 PM | #15 |
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yeah karlo killed the engine driving through water.
i dont doubt it's never going to happen, but keep your eyes wide open when it's raining |
23-05-2006, 10:17 PM | #16 |
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Yeh what twiggy said..Karlo didnt exactly drive thru a small puddle.
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23-05-2006, 10:17 PM | #17 |
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hey ye sorry twilight, i meant $300-400 seemed a LOT to me if all it is is a ~$100 filter with some alloy tubing.. but i suppose it has been all thought out so all u have to do is follow instructions and bolt it on....
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It'll be made in such a way that its just a matter of tearing the stocko intake poop off and bolting the new one on.... |
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24-05-2006, 07:50 AM | #20 |
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yeah no rain at all - i'm certainly not doubting that it *could* happen, i'm just saying if you drive smart it's very unlikely you'll ever have a problem
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